From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 6 18:56:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7760514D68; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 18:56:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10109; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:56:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 21:56:31 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Nik Clayton Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What wouldn't you use FreeBSD for? In-Reply-To: <19991206184950.A97213@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Nik, On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > I'm trying to produce a list of applications you'd use FreeBSD for, and, > for balance, I need a list of types of applications that FreeBSD doesn't > cut it at yet. > Finance -- we've got spreadsheats, but nothing like Quicken, MS Money, > or QuickBooks. Apps like Gnumeric aren't there yet for the home user. Well, depending on what you need to do, cbb (in ports) works great as an account balancer. No, it doesn't have _everything_ Quicken or Money has, but I've found that I could enter and balance my checking account faster using cbb than my ex-gf w/ Money. YMMV. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message