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This week at LWN: The exceedingly grumpy editor's accounting system update

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When your editor posted the Grumpy Editor's next project, he certainly did not anticipate that it would take more than a year and a half for the next installment to be written. Or that, even after all that time, the project of moving LWN's accounting from proprietary software to free software would be incomplete. But the world is full of surprises, even in places where surprises are most unwelcome - like accounting. Happily, your editor's surprises do not involve counterparty risk, credit-default swaps, or anything else of that sort.

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Comments (4)

Sander_Marechal ·
LWN should try EekBoek (http://www.eekboek.nl). As opposed to the bulk of FOSS accounting packages, this one does come with up-to-date tax forms. There are a few downsides though:

- It's aimed at the European market, who do accounting slightly different (which is why GnuCash doesn't really work for us) - There's no complete GUI yet. There's enough of a GUI to retrieve data, but updates must be made through CLI. That said, I can't imagine the LWN staff having trouble with a CLI application. - The website and the documentation are in Dutch, though the application istelf is also available in English :-(

Personally I am using osFinancials now. It's windows-based but fully supported on Wine, is 100% FOSS and also has up-to-date tax forms. The main reason: I really can't make my girlfriend do the accounts through a CLI.
jezuch ·
[offtopic] Out of curiosity, what does "EekBoek" mean, if anything? It reminds me of this: http://chetchat.blogspot.com/2006/12/feeling-flemish.html ;) [/offtopic]
Sander_Marechal ·
I have no idea. "Boek" is "Book" of course. No idea what "Eek" stands for. I don't think it stands for anything.
techiem2 ·
"Eek a book!"

What your typical student would say these days. :P

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