By - People often talk about Linux's ability to become a 'real' desktop OS. Serato pioneer ddj sb2 software download. Popular belief is that Linux doesn't have enough 3D Blood'n'Guts games. I beg to differ. The real key to making Linux a run-of-the-mill desktop OS lies in its acceptance on home and business office desktops, and this takes good money management software. One Linux program that showed potential in this area was Moneydance. It was dropped by the company that owned it and apparently died, but recently the package experienced a rebirth when it was repurchased by its original developer, Reilly Technologies. This review is not a 'buy' or 'don't buy' recommendation as much as a discussion of where I'd like to see development of the product go now that it's back in Reilly's hands.

Windows 8.1 drivers for mac. For a while now, Moneydance has been a favorite of Linux users who wanted to find something similar to. But a little while back, the company which owned Moneydance,, dropped the product. Many feared it would be a permanent loss. Good news came in a joint from and Appgen.

Reilly, the birthplace of Moneydance, was again taking over. When I found that Moneydance was under new management, I quickly went to its Web site,, to learn more details.

If your institution support Direct Download then you may have a simpler process. Also, the nice thing about Moneydance is that the trial gives you like 100 transactions entries (download transactions don't count) before you have to register. So that gives you a good chance of testing it out. Lets say that a bug is found in an early version of Java 7 that affects Moneydance. Being good stewards Oracle will hopefully release a new version with a fix. If we bundled Moneydance with Java we can release a Moneydance upgrade with the new version of Java.

I remember it comming with my SuSE Linux distribution, as well as seeing it at the local Apple Store a few months after that. To my surprise, they actually had a freely downloable version available.

You can also purchase a registered version for $29.95. They claim you can buy it on, but Amazon's site. Maybe that'll change soon. After downloading the 17MB tar file, it wasn't long before the program was up and running on my Red Hat 8.0 system.

To install it, I just had to double-click on Red Hat's box-looking tar file icon to untar it, double-click on the folder, and then double-click on a file called 'moneydance.' The program, I was surprised to see, didn't install. It just ran from inside the directory itself, Java Virtual Machine and all. It was really more of a drop-n-run than an actual install. Not a bad trick. Maybe a single click process which would extract the files within the tar file and start an actual installation process would be nicer, something like the Windows version's installation process.

After all, I'd like to be able to choose where it's installed, as opposed to presuming that I want the whole (after extraction) 43MB load on my home directory. It really would have gotten annoying if I already had a version of Java running on my machine and the program just dumped another in my home directory (which it did). An icon on my desktop or my menu would be nice, too. For what it's worth, this was still the simplest installation of a distribution-independent product I've seen on Linux, if you could even call it an installation.

The setup process is perhaps the best indication of how this kid differs from its bigger rivals. Simplicity, it seems, is the key with Moneydance. There are no wizards telling you how you should reduce your debt and put your kids through college, what to do about feeding your birds, or how much to tip the waitress at the local Olive Garden. It's just a simple, straight-forward approach to money management, which is good enough for most people's needs, especially anyone who is new to personal finances and doesn't want to dive head first into the world of Quicken wizards or into Microsoft's deplorably unfriendly Money.