Intuit Software (Quickbooks etc) under Linux?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:29:20PM -0500, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> What is the incentive for running XP? Why not simply run Win 2000 or 98?
> (Assuming that you have the Windows install disks.) If the laptop hardware
> is standard enough to run Linux, wouldn't it be standard enough to run
> these older Windows operating systems?
> 
> Certainly, Win 2000 and 98 will run something like Intuit Quickbooks,
> because many firms are still using those operating systems.

As long as you don't need security fixed (I guess you can just not have
internet access on the machine) then that is an OK solution.

I for one intend to do my taxes with paper, a calculator and a pen and
pencil.  I might try that spreadsheet someone posted a link to a little
while ago.  It is really simple, and doesn't take very long.

Len Sorensen
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