"GnuCash is a fast, free, and mature double-entry personal & business accounting system available to Unix user's running the X11 Windowing system...."
Microsoft Money™, like Quicken™ had too many, features & gimmicks, that with each release as both companies franticly tried to compete with each other felt 'bloated' . Determined to find a better product, it was to my Amazement that a solution to my problems finally did arrive, but from an unexpected source....the Unix world. GnuCash is a fast, free, and mature double-entry personal & business accounting system available to Unix user's running the X11 Windowing system.
With Mac OS X, Apple decided to use the power and stability of Unix to be at the foundations of their new operating system. It's use not only means that Macs are extremely crash proof, but it has also has meant that the move to a Unix platform has brought new software development to the Mac.
Unix programmers are now writing software for the Mac and vice versa. However there are still masses of Unix applications which don't run natively on Mac OS X's brushed metal interface. In January 2003, Apple added X11 support to 10.2 (Currently in the form of a beta release add-on.), Mac users could now have access to hundreds of Unix applications, with only a simple recompile. Thanks to Open source developers, programmers who collaborate to make software freely available to all.
Available via the Terminal application or through the X-window system also know as X11, Unix's favoured graphical user interface (GUI). This guide was designed for Mac OS X users who would like to use available X11 software, but do not have any understanding of the unix terminal and what it does. Now here's the easy part...
On the next few page links found below, I will guide you through some simple steps of setting up your Macintosh™, the process of downloading the applications needed to acquire GnuCash, the setting up of key app's such as Fink Commander in finding the dependencies (ingredients!) and how long at will take all to compile (cook and simmer!) on your cool virus free Mac!.