Quicken for Linux?

[Bill Bogstad]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 05/08/2009 08:41 AM, markt9 wrote:
>>
>> Quicken was the one program that kept my wife from switching to Linux on
>> her desktop.  11 years of running a program makes it hard for people to
>> switch.
>>
>> I didn't have luck installing Quicken on Wine.  Maybe an older version
>> of Quicken might work though.
>>
>> I installed VirtualBox from the Sun website (the open version does not
>> have usb support) and loaded XP on it for her to run Quicken.
>>
>
> First of all, VirtualBox 2.2 (and 2.1 and 2.0) DOES have USB support. The
> one thing I have not yet been able to do is sync my blackberry, but it does
> see the blackberry and all the files.

I think he means the 'free as in freedom' vs. 'free as in beer'
version.   The OSE (GPLed source version) does not include USB
support.  You have to install one of Sun's binary-only versions if you
want USB support.  The license for the binary version:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL is nominally for
personal, educational, or evaluation purposes only.  So don't go
installing it on 100 Linux based call-center desktops.

Bill Bogstad