Re: Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use
Hi Jeffrey, I have been using Linux Mint which is a Debian/Ubuntu distribution for 4-5 years with no major problems. The interface is fairly easy to transition to from Windows particularly if prior to Windows 8. The RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express controller should work with the standard Ubuntu distribution drivers. It works fine on my AMD desktop with no inetrvention. Some wireless 802.11ac wireless usb adapters are not supported by the inbuilt drivers. The list of supported drivers is widening all the time and there are prefeerred adapters for use with Linux. I have a Netgear A6100 which is based on the Realtek 8811 chipset which is not supported by the inbuilt drivers. It uses an RTL8812 driver for which versions modified from Realteks sources for the Windows drivers for Linux need to be used . There are a number of repositories on Github which support drivers for chipsets which are not supported by the distribution's inbuilt driver (e.g. for RTL 8812 driver https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU). They are not very difficult to compile and install. Sorting out which drivers need to be used can be a bit confusing at first. Ubuntu maintains lists of USB adpaters, chipsets with some references to respositories but not always completely upto date. One way to simplify things is to avoid updating the kernel version as you generally have to rebuild the drivers with a new kernel version. It is generally better to stay with the Linux kernel version that the distriubtion you use is based on. Linux Mint has a default option to not install kernel updates to new versions automatically. Sometimes the kernel changes require the drivers to be patched particularly changes in the major and minor version numbers. This generally happens reasonably quickly on most driver repositories. I try to use repositories which are being updated fairly frequently like the above. When there is an enforced update as with the Sceptre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, the kernel versions on which the distributions are based are usually patched fairly quickly. David - David Cousens -- Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Running two copies of GnuCash in Windows?
Hello. This is about Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. I have a file with opening balances as of 2017-12-31 and all 2018 transactions. I'm also converting my historical data from a dBase IV file(!), so I have a second GnuCash file with opening balances as of 2010-12-31 and transactions from there through mid 2012 currently. When I've brought that up to the end of 2017, I plan to merge the two. But in the meantime, whenever I add or edit an account in one, I have to close it, open the other, and remember to make the same change. I'd like to have both GnuCash files open at once. I tried running two instances of GnuCash at the same time, working with the two files. It seemed okay, but I didn't enter any data because I'm nervous about some sort of contention between the two, or non-re-entrant code. Is there a problem with running two copies of the GnuCash program at the same time, or is it safe? -- Regards, Stan Brown Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com http://OakRoadSystems.com ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use
Avoiding updating the kernel can leave you with security vulnerabilities. Last summer there was a bluetooth vulnerability that was patched and some patches for Spectre and Meltdown have recently been released with more pending. There is a solution to rebuilding drivers, however, called DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) Essentially, you install the dkms package first, then create a small .conf file with the instructions to build the driver using the modules instructions. You then copy the module files into the kernel source tree directories and then install the module using dkms. From there on out, each time you update the kernel, dkms will be called and it will re-compile and install any modules you set up this way. (note, this is generally how the custom drivers function of Ubuntu works. Virtualbox and Vmware also take advantage of dkms so their kernel modules survive kernel updates) Instructions can be found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS If the RTL drivers that are pre-installed don’t seem to want to work with your hardware, double check dmesg and look for any related warnings or errors about not loading firmware. Some hardware requires proprietary firmware even though the drivers are open-source. The message might even give you a web address to download it from, but you can most likely easily find it by doing a web search. All you have to do then is unpack the firmware and copy it to the /lib/firmware directory. (on *buntu and Debian systems) This will survive a kernel update as the firmware files don’t get zapped. (the driver is already in the kernel anyway) Regards, Adrien > On Mar 17, 2018, at 3:42 AM, DaveC49 wrote: > > Hi Jeffrey, > > I have been using Linux Mint which is a Debian/Ubuntu distribution for 4-5 > years with no major problems. The interface is fairly easy to transition to > from Windows particularly if prior to Windows 8. > > The RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express controller should work with the standard > Ubuntu distribution drivers. It works fine on my AMD desktop with no > inetrvention. > > Some wireless 802.11ac wireless usb adapters are not supported by the > inbuilt drivers. The list of supported drivers is widening all the time and > there are prefeerred adapters for use with Linux. I have a Netgear A6100 > which is based on the Realtek 8811 chipset which is not supported by the > inbuilt drivers. It uses an RTL8812 driver for which versions modified from > Realteks sources for the Windows drivers for Linux need to be used . There > are a number of repositories on Github which support drivers for chipsets > which are not supported by the distribution's inbuilt driver (e.g. for RTL > 8812 driver https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU). They are not very > difficult to compile and install. Sorting out which drivers need to be used > can be a bit confusing at first. Ubuntu maintains lists of USB adpaters, > chipsets with some references to respositories but not always completely > upto date. > > One way to simplify things is to avoid updating the kernel version as you > generally have to rebuild the drivers with a new kernel version. It is > generally better to stay with the Linux kernel version that the distriubtion > you use is based on. Linux Mint has a default option to not install kernel > updates to new versions automatically. Sometimes the kernel changes require > the drivers to be patched particularly changes in the major and minor > version numbers. This generally happens reasonably quickly on most driver > repositories. I try to use repositories which are being updated fairly > frequently like the above. When there is an enforced update as with the > Sceptre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, the kernel versions on which the > distributions are based are usually patched fairly quickly. > > David > > > > - > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: 2.7.6 - Scrolling in Accounts-Tabs
Is no one else using / testing 2.7.6 or am I the only one with this problem? Does the scrolling work for you? I know, I should not expect a perfect release with the 2.7.x releases, and I don't - I just want to make sure this won't be in the final 2.8 Thanks! Am 13.03.2018 um 10:47 schrieb Catscrash: > Hi, > > with 2.7.6 it seems not possible to use the mouse-wheel to switch the > account tabs anymore. Is there some setting to get it back? > > > Thanks! > > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use
Folks, Thus is no longer a thread about gnucash. Perhaps you could take it to another venue. David T. On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 20:57, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Avoiding updating the kernel can leave you with security vulnerabilities. Last summer there was a bluetooth vulnerability that was patched and some patches for Spectre and Meltdown have recently been released with more pending. There is a solution to rebuilding drivers, however, called DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) Essentially, you install the dkms package first, then create a small .conf file with the instructions to build the driver using the modules instructions. You then copy the module files into the kernel source tree directories and then install the module using dkms. From there on out, each time you update the kernel, dkms will be called and it will re-compile and install any modules you set up this way. (note, this is generally how the custom drivers function of Ubuntu works. Virtualbox and Vmware also take advantage of dkms so their kernel modules survive kernel updates) Instructions can be found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DKMS If the RTL drivers that are pre-installed don’t seem to want to work with your hardware, double check dmesg and look for any related warnings or errors about not loading firmware. Some hardware requires proprietary firmware even though the drivers are open-source. The message might even give you a web address to download it from, but you can most likely easily find it by doing a web search. All you have to do then is unpack the firmware and copy it to the /lib/firmware directory. (on *buntu and Debian systems) This will survive a kernel update as the firmware files don’t get zapped. (the driver is already in the kernel anyway) Regards, Adrien > On Mar 17, 2018, at 3:42 AM, DaveC49 wrote: > > Hi Jeffrey, > > I have been using Linux Mint which is a Debian/Ubuntu distribution for 4-5 > years with no major problems. The interface is fairly easy to transition to > from Windows particularly if prior to Windows 8. > > The RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express controller should work with the standard > Ubuntu distribution drivers. It works fine on my AMD desktop with no > inetrvention. > > Some wireless 802.11ac wireless usb adapters are not supported by the > inbuilt drivers. The list of supported drivers is widening all the time and > there are prefeerred adapters for use with Linux. I have a Netgear A6100 > which is based on the Realtek 8811 chipset which is not supported by the > inbuilt drivers. It uses an RTL8812 driver for which versions modified from > Realteks sources for the Windows drivers for Linux need to be used . There > are a number of repositories on Github which support drivers for chipsets > which are not supported by the distribution's inbuilt driver (e.g. for RTL > 8812 driver https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU). They are not very > difficult to compile and install. Sorting out which drivers need to be used > can be a bit confusing at first. Ubuntu maintains lists of USB adpaters, > chipsets with some references to respositories but not always completely > upto date. > > One way to simplify things is to avoid updating the kernel version as you > generally have to rebuild the drivers with a new kernel version. It is > generally better to stay with the Linux kernel version that the distriubtion > you use is based on. Linux Mint has a default option to not install kernel > updates to new versions automatically. Sometimes the kernel changes require > the drivers to be patched particularly changes in the major and minor > version numbers. This generally happens reasonably quickly on most driver > repositories. I try to use repositories which are being updated fairly > frequently like the above. When there is an enforced update as with the > Sceptre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, the kernel versions on which the > distributions are based are usually patched fairly quickly. > > David > > > > - > David Cousens > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-User-f1415819.html > ___ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > - > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by us
Re: 2.7.6 - Scrolling in Accounts-Tabs
On Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:27:27 GMT Catscrash wrote: > Is no one else using / testing 2.7.6 or am I the only one with this > problem? Does the scrolling work for you? > I know, I should not expect a perfect release with the 2.7.x releases, > and I don't - I just want to make sure this won't be in the final 2.8 > > Thanks! > Hi, you must have missed John Ralls' reply at 22:56 (GMT) on tuesday where he said it wasn't available in the toolkit... Maf. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: 2.7.6 - Scrolling in Accounts-Tabs
On 2018-03-17 10:12, Maf. King wrote: > On Saturday, 17 March 2018 16:27:27 GMT Catscrash wrote: >> Is no one else using / testing 2.7.6 or am I the only one with this >> problem? Does the scrolling work for you? >> I know, I should not expect a perfect release with the 2.7.x releases, >> and I don't - I just want to make sure this won't be in the final 2.8 >> >> Thanks! >> > > Hi, > > you must have missed John Ralls' reply at 22:56 (GMT) on tuesday where he > said > it wasn't available in the toolkit... > > Maf. If anyone wants to compile their own copy of the GTK toolkit, the modification that removed scrolling can be reverted: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/commit/ad48f4d52bbac6139dd829fcc421ad16441f34d2 (line numbers might be a bit off but it should be possible to figure out how to piece it back together) ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Downloading Bank Transactions into Gnucash
Is it possible to download bank transactions into Gnucash without having Quicken ? I read that it will using a QIF file. So sounds like the user needs Quicken to be able to download bank transactions into Gnucash. Is this correct? Kathleen Hubbard ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
Re: Downloading Bank Transactions into Gnucash
Yes, I have been downloading QFX files for years from my banks and credit cards with out problems with out having Quicken. Joseph St. Denis Get Outlook for Android From: Kathleen Hubbard Sent: Saturday, March 17, 8:44 PM Subject: Downloading Bank Transactions into Gnucash To: gnucash-user@gnucash.org Is it possible to download bank transactions into Gnucash without having Quicken ? I read that it will using a QIF file. So sounds like the user needs Quicken to be able to download bank transactions into Gnucash. Is this correct? Kathleen Hubbard ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. ___ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. - Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.