Unfortunately WoW doesn't run nearly as well under Linux + Wine or Cedega as it does natively on Windows. Or maybe you just need a bleeding edge graphics card to account for the DirectX >> OpenGL translation. I wish Blizzard would simply port their Mac client to Linux - doesn't the Mac version use OpenGL already? Shouldn't be that hard to churn out Linux version I would think.
Truecrypt is a great solution for people who work on laptops and need to cart around sensitive data. On Windows, you can actually encrypt your entire "My Documents" folder. Unfortunately it's quite a bit harder to encrypt the entire user data directory (C:\Documents and Settings\username\), at least I haven't found an easy way to do it yet. Maybe some other Slashdotter has figured this out?
Hopefully hardware-based encryption will become standard soon. I want to boot up, type in my passphrase, and have AES encryption for the entire drive, completely transparent to whatever OS(es) happen to be running on it. The new drives from Seagate look promising in this regard.
I have an installation of SugarCRM "Open Source" on my laptop that I am using for evaluation purposes. I attempted to install a plugin created by a developer, and somehow it modified the code that displays the SugarCRM logo image on every page. All of a sudden, I was completely locked out of the system. I could no longer log in, even to disable the plugin that I had installed. The error message "Please replace the SugarCRM logos" kept popping up every time. So I Googled around a bit and found this article about "Badgeware":
Apparently this "feature" was added into the code to try and prevent companies like vTiger from doing exactly what the parent poster said - exercise their rights under the "Sugar Public License". You can't even post the word "vTiger" on their forums without it being censored:
There are lots of companies trying to jump on the open source bandwagon, but not many that actually stick with a "real" open source license like the GPL.
ESR, I've got news for you - sooner or later you're going to run into similar quirks and dependency problems with Ubuntu. You are a power user, and power users tend to do things that might break their systems (such as running yum or rpm with a --nodeps flag . ..). It's happened to most of us at one time or another. If you are really looking for rock-solid stability, then don't use a bleeding-edge development distro like Fedora! RHEL or CentOS are both perfectly suitable for most tasks, and have had enough time for most of the kinks to be worked out.
I have no doubt that this is coming. Google already has a "Google Mini" search appliance. It's basically a small Google search engine in a pizza box server that you just put in your rack, setup with your website or intranet and let it run. A similar apppliance could be made just for Google Apps.
As my 9th grade biology teacher Mr. Devlin used to say, "There's no such thing as a free lunch!"
As with any project of this size and scope, someone has to pay for it eventually. Whether it's through paid advertisements, user donations, subscriptions, or quasi-advertisements (sponsors) like they have on PBS and NPR these days, someone has to foot the bill.
Ok, let's assume that Joe User decided to install whichever distribution looks the best. If he went with Ubuntu, he would have NO services running with open ports by default. With Fedora there are a few more services running, but most are not a major threat vector.
Opening unsafe attachments on a Linux computer means one of two things - A. The trojan or virus was intended for a Windows computer and won't have any effect B. It was written for Linux, but only works if it's run manually. As far as I know, the Outlook email clients are the only ones set up to allow executables inside email previews (eg, via Word and Excel.vbs scripts). On Linux, HTML emails do not auto-execute when you open them in Thunderbird or Evolution.
Since Ubuntu and Fedora have automatic updates turned on by default, I don't see why they would not ever update their computer, unless they just chose to ignore the little popups every time they appeared.
Ubuntu also does not have the root account enabled for regular login, and users are forced to type an administrator password to do administrator tasks.
Well, pilgrim, since you live in the great state of Texas y'all are allowed to quit anytime you want with zero notice, and without giving any reason. Same goes for the employer - they can fire you at any time, without having to provide a reason for doing so. This is what at-will employment means.
How about the fact that 8 million World of Warcraft users utilize BitTorrent to download patches for the game? Yes, it may be a small proportion, but is significant nonetheless.
I have been using Linux for about 8 years. I first attempted to "switch" to Linux on the desktop around 2001, when I installed Redhat 7 on a Toshiba notebook. I spent an entire weekend fighting to get the PPP dialup working properly with my Winmodem. It sort of worked most of the time, but I had a lot of dropped connections.
Since then I've used Debian, several versions of Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. Each and every time I seem to run up against a brick wall with some piece of software or hardware that just won't work under Linux. I know that this is not fault of Linux developers because they don't have access to driver source code or firmware, etc. But the end result is that I can't use my computer the way I want it to, and the guy using Windows can load his software and start using it right away.
I have a dual-boot laptop that runs XP and Ubuntu, but I recently put the Ubuntu partition to rest and moved all my data over to the Windows side. Why? Because there was one app that I needed to use for work that just would not work under Linux. Yes, there is a Linux version, but it performed so terribly that I had no other choice but to switch. This app in particular was a VoIP softphone. The sound quality was terrible under Linux, but flawless under Windows. I spent 3 hours tweaking ALSA settings, compiling new Alsa drivers from scratch, checking my microphone, etc. but no luck.
Don't get me wrong - I fully support open source software. I use Thunderbird, Firefox, OpenOffice, and Cygwin on a daily basis. But at this point in my life I don't want to spend hours dorking around with/etc/config files and the C compiler. I don't really care what OS I'm using, as long as I can set up my work environment and use the programs and data that I need.
Dell is in a tough spot to be in because there's nothing really "special" about their brand. Apple on the other hand, has an incredible brand awareness and unique style which is something customers don't mind paying a premium for. Since the price of a basic starter PC has come down to around $400, Dell doesn't have much that will differentiate it from white-box competitors, at least in the home PC market. And as other commenters have suggested - their customer service sucks. When you get stuck on the phone with someone in Bangalore, it makes you feel like the company is using the cheapest labor possible because it just doesn't care about it's customers.
In our case this would not have worked. The machines we were working with had 64mb of memory each. As I type this, Firefox is consuming 45mb of memory (and that is with only ONE tab open).
Don't get me wrong, I think thin clients are fantastic for certain environments. I think AutoZone has some kind of custom Linux distro setup. At least I thought it was a KDE desktop I saw on the screen when I bought some parts there. But all this system had to do was open a browser to the company's POS system.
At my office we had sales reps who needed to be able to browse the web, run an email client, open Word docs and PDFs on a daily basis so the overhead was just too much for the thin-client system to handle effectively.
One of the by-products of today's powerful computers seems to be sloppy programming that does not make efficient use of memory and CPU cycles. Instead of optimizing code to be lean & mean less skilled coders can write stuff that works, but uses a lot more memory and CPU than it has to. In other words, most modern software is not optimized for multi-user environments on a single machine.
At the time we set this up, running local apps was still on the drawing boards. Besides that - it sort of defeats the purpose of using a thin client to begin with. If you're going to run apps locally, you might as well go whole hog and run everything locally, and store the data on a server.
We actually implemented thin clients at the company I used to work for. Since the IT budget was tight, we used old Pentium II and III machines along with a Linux server running LTSP. What we found was that although the dumb terminals worked ok, the server choked with ten or twelve users all running Firefox, Open Office, and especially Adobe Acrobat. There were times when an end-user would open a PDF, and you'd see a noticeable slowdown on all the other machines. In the end we put each user on their own desktop box with home directories mounted over NFS.
I used to live in the Puna district on the Big Island, a couple miles away from the geothermal plant. It was really loud - I suppose that was the steam turbines causing all the noise. I always wondered what would happen if one of the pipes exploded. It would not be fun to breathe a giant cloud of hydrogen sulfide gas. Personally I'd feel much safer living near a nuclear plant, but that's just me. I believe nuclear's cheaper too, but maybe the good folks at MIT have figured out a way to bring the setup costs down.
While in 2006, DDoS attacks with botnets were mainly targeted at unwanted competitors, online betting offices and consumer protection sites, 2007 also saw large attacks launched on critical infrastructures. In April, the stock exchange nearly crashed, when a DDoS attack on the electronic trading system disconnected it from the Internet for several days, resulting in automated control programs loosing control and attempting to divest shares in a panic reaction.
It seems the number of botnet attacks should actually decrease as more and more people replace their old computers with new ones that have newer, more secure versions of Windows:
My thoughts to explain this drop are the following : the new (unpatched) computers replaced the old (infected) ones, so the global number of bots has decreased. 99.9% of the new computers must be Windows XP SP2 with firewall turned on - and that's why the new computers are not yet infected. XP firewall does a fair job in protecting a computer from the most common attacks *from the outside* (137,139,135 & 445 are closed), allowing to visit windowsupdate and download the missing patches.
So my assymption is that 99% of the new computer will stay clean... at least until their users begin to click each and every popup on the screen, install an IM program and receive xmas & ny wishes in their mailboxes.
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2006-12-27
Disclaimer: Yes, I am a SANS Institute employee.:)
* Much longer battery life than my cell phone * I don't want my PDA use sucking my phone battery life * I have some very useful apps on the Palm that don't exist for my phone * If I lose or break the Palm, I'm only out $89 or so, rather than the $500 that a Treo costs * E-books are much more comfortable to read on the palm screen than my phone's screen
Evolution hooks into Google Calendar would be better. A quick and easy way to post your calendar on the web, right from within Evolution. That would be quite useful to a lot of people, myself included.
Here are some brief thoughts on OSX vs. Ubuntu. My wife has a Macbook Pro running OS X, and I have an Acer Aspire laptop running Ubuntu 6.06, so I've had a chance to use both.
Macbook Pro:
* Nice eye candy, some people like the way windows do that slurpy thing when you minimize them, etc. Personally I don't like the dock, find it a bit big, clunky, and lacking real information about what programs I have open. * Most everything 'just works' the way it's supposed to. If you can get into the "Mac way" of doing things, eg, iphoto, itunes, etc. then you'll be right at home. The drawbacks are that OSX is not very customizable the way Gnome (the default Ubuntu desktop environment) is. * Terminal application is somewhat lacking. It has basic features but cannot be customized very much. If you do a lot of work on the command line you'll probably want a third-party terminal application to get your real work done. * The wireless setup is not straightforward, and if you're not used to it can be a bit confusing. * If you want an office suite, you have to pay quite a bit extra to get it. MS Office for Mac is something like $379 or so. If you're a student you might get it for less.
Ubuntu:
* Easy installer, even on newer hardware seems to work well. I had out-of-the-box wifi connection with the Atheros chipset adapter in my laptop, even with WPA and WEP. I've never had a Linux laptop working wifi before I tried Ubuntu. * If you install EasyUbuntu, you'll have most of the proprietary codecs and other stuff that most people want to be able to watch DVDs, see Flash movies, play mp3s, etc. * Takes a bit more hands-on tweaking to get it working exactly the way you want, but is much more flexible and customizable than OS X. * The office type applications are finally getting to the point where a business user or student can be productive with them. For example, Evolution (the Outlook clone) has come a long way as far as usability goes, and it syncs just fine with my Palm Pilot. * Free (as in beer). * There are a few downsides. You won't be able to run some Windows-only applications without an emulator, but I guess that could be said for Macs as well. Also, with any Linux distribution you pretty much have to learn some command line to really be able to use your system to it's full potential.
Although it's not appropriate for all types of items, I'm really glad that craigslist.org is available as an eBay alternative. Recently I had to sell some large, heavy items and found the craigslist site much easier to use and also free of charge.
Perhaps someone can take a note from the Craigslist playbook and design something to compete with eBay on a worldwide scale. Google base perhaps? Anything less cluttered than eBay, where sellers are not nickel-and-dimed to death for every little thing would be a welcome alternative.
Here you go - I'm an end-user, not programmer so I have no idea what to do with this. This is what appeared after I ran the 'make' command, after going through./configure:
I gave it my best shot but this software is way too much of a pain in the arse to get installed. This one of the main reasons people will not switch to Linux, and well, they're right!
I attempted to install Gnucash 2.0 on a computer running CentOS 4.3, and after going through 30 minutes of dependency hell to get all the required programs installed so I could compile Gnucash, I finally got a fatal error stating that g-wrap wasn't working properly.
Maybe I'll try again later if someone creates an RPM installer, because I don't have time to mess around with the C compiler and obscure config files.
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Unfortunately WoW doesn't run nearly as well under Linux + Wine or Cedega as it does natively on Windows. Or maybe you just need a bleeding edge graphics card to account for the DirectX >> OpenGL translation. I wish Blizzard would simply port their Mac client to Linux - doesn't the Mac version use OpenGL already? Shouldn't be that hard to churn out Linux version I would think.
Or he might let you have it with his magic missile!
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Truecrypt is a great solution for people who work on laptops and need to cart around sensitive data. On Windows, you can actually encrypt your entire "My Documents" folder. Unfortunately it's quite a bit harder to encrypt the entire user data directory (C:\Documents and Settings\username\), at least I haven't found an easy way to do it yet. Maybe some other Slashdotter has figured this out?
Hopefully hardware-based encryption will become standard soon. I want to boot up, type in my passphrase, and have AES encryption for the entire drive, completely transparent to whatever OS(es) happen to be running on it. The new drives from Seagate look promising in this regard.
I have an installation of SugarCRM "Open Source" on my laptop that I am using for evaluation purposes. I attempted to install a plugin created by a developer, and somehow it modified the code that displays the SugarCRM logo image on every page. All of a sudden, I was completely locked out of the system. I could no longer log in, even to disable the plugin that I had installed. The error message "Please replace the SugarCRM logos" kept popping up every time. So I Googled around a bit and found this article about "Badgeware":
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=867
Apparently this "feature" was added into the code to try and prevent companies like vTiger from doing exactly what the parent poster said - exercise their rights under the "Sugar Public License". You can't even post the word "vTiger" on their forums without it being censored:
http://sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20207
There are lots of companies trying to jump on the open source bandwagon, but not many that actually stick with a "real" open source license like the GPL.
ESR, I've got news for you - sooner or later you're going to run into similar quirks and dependency problems with Ubuntu. You are a power user, and power users tend to do things that might break their systems (such as running yum or rpm with a --nodeps flag . . .). It's happened to most of us at one time or another. If you are really looking for rock-solid stability, then don't use a bleeding-edge development distro like Fedora! RHEL or CentOS are both perfectly suitable for most tasks, and have had enough time for most of the kinks to be worked out.
I have no doubt that this is coming. Google already has a "Google Mini" search appliance. It's basically a small Google search engine in a pizza box server that you just put in your rack, setup with your website or intranet and let it run. A similar apppliance could be made just for Google Apps.
As my 9th grade biology teacher Mr. Devlin used to say, "There's no such thing as a free lunch!"
As with any project of this size and scope, someone has to pay for it eventually. Whether it's through paid advertisements, user donations, subscriptions, or quasi-advertisements (sponsors) like they have on PBS and NPR these days, someone has to foot the bill.
Ok, let's assume that Joe User decided to install whichever distribution looks the best. If he went with Ubuntu, he would have NO services running with open ports by default. With Fedora there are a few more services running, but most are not a major threat vector.
.vbs scripts). On Linux, HTML emails do not auto-execute when you open them in Thunderbird or Evolution.
Opening unsafe attachments on a Linux computer means one of two things - A. The trojan or virus was intended for a Windows computer and won't have any effect B. It was written for Linux, but only works if it's run manually. As far as I know, the Outlook email clients are the only ones set up to allow executables inside email previews (eg, via Word and Excel
Since Ubuntu and Fedora have automatic updates turned on by default, I don't see why they would not ever update their computer, unless they just chose to ignore the little popups every time they appeared.
Ubuntu also does not have the root account enabled for regular login, and users are forced to type an administrator password to do administrator tasks.
Well, pilgrim, since you live in the great state of Texas y'all are allowed to quit anytime you want with zero notice, and without giving any reason. Same goes for the employer - they can fire you at any time, without having to provide a reason for doing so. This is what at-will employment means.
How about the fact that 8 million World of Warcraft users utilize BitTorrent to download patches for the game? Yes, it may be a small proportion, but is significant nonetheless.
I have been using Linux for about 8 years. I first attempted to "switch" to Linux on the desktop around 2001, when I installed Redhat 7 on a Toshiba notebook. I spent an entire weekend fighting to get the PPP dialup working properly with my Winmodem. It sort of worked most of the time, but I had a lot of dropped connections.
/etc/config files and the C compiler. I don't really care what OS I'm using, as long as I can set up my work environment and use the programs and data that I need.
Since then I've used Debian, several versions of Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. Each and every time I seem to run up against a brick wall with some piece of software or hardware that just won't work under Linux. I know that this is not fault of Linux developers because they don't have access to driver source code or firmware, etc. But the end result is that I can't use my computer the way I want it to, and the guy using Windows can load his software and start using it right away.
I have a dual-boot laptop that runs XP and Ubuntu, but I recently put the Ubuntu partition to rest and moved all my data over to the Windows side. Why? Because there was one app that I needed to use for work that just would not work under Linux. Yes, there is a Linux version, but it performed so terribly that I had no other choice but to switch. This app in particular was a VoIP softphone. The sound quality was terrible under Linux, but flawless under Windows. I spent 3 hours tweaking ALSA settings, compiling new Alsa drivers from scratch, checking my microphone, etc. but no luck.
Don't get me wrong - I fully support open source software. I use Thunderbird, Firefox, OpenOffice, and Cygwin on a daily basis. But at this point in my life I don't want to spend hours dorking around with
Dell is in a tough spot to be in because there's nothing really "special" about their brand. Apple on the other hand, has an incredible brand awareness and unique style which is something customers don't mind paying a premium for. Since the price of a basic starter PC has come down to around $400, Dell doesn't have much that will differentiate it from white-box competitors, at least in the home PC market. And as other commenters have suggested - their customer service sucks. When you get stuck on the phone with someone in Bangalore, it makes you feel like the company is using the cheapest labor possible because it just doesn't care about it's customers.
In our case this would not have worked. The machines we were working with had 64mb of memory each. As I type this, Firefox is consuming 45mb of memory (and that is with only ONE tab open).
Don't get me wrong, I think thin clients are fantastic for certain environments. I think AutoZone has some kind of custom Linux distro setup. At least I thought it was a KDE desktop I saw on the screen when I bought some parts there. But all this system had to do was open a browser to the company's POS system.
At my office we had sales reps who needed to be able to browse the web, run an email client, open Word docs and PDFs on a daily basis so the overhead was just too much for the thin-client system to handle effectively.
One of the by-products of today's powerful computers seems to be sloppy programming that does not make efficient use of memory and CPU cycles. Instead of optimizing code to be lean & mean less skilled coders can write stuff that works, but uses a lot more memory and CPU than it has to. In other words, most modern software is not optimized for multi-user environments on a single machine.
At the time we set this up, running local apps was still on the drawing boards. Besides that - it sort of defeats the purpose of using a thin client to begin with. If you're going to run apps locally, you might as well go whole hog and run everything locally, and store the data on a server.
We actually implemented thin clients at the company I used to work for. Since the IT budget was tight, we used old Pentium II and III machines along with a Linux server running LTSP. What we found was that although the dumb terminals worked ok, the server choked with ten or twelve users all running Firefox, Open Office, and especially Adobe Acrobat. There were times when an end-user would open a PDF, and you'd see a noticeable slowdown on all the other machines. In the end we put each user on their own desktop box with home directories mounted over NFS.
I used to live in the Puna district on the Big Island, a couple miles away from the geothermal plant. It was really loud - I suppose that was the steam turbines causing all the noise. I always wondered what would happen if one of the pipes exploded. It would not be fun to breathe a giant cloud of hydrogen sulfide gas. Personally I'd feel much safer living near a nuclear plant, but that's just me. I believe nuclear's cheaper too, but maybe the good folks at MIT have figured out a way to bring the setup costs down.
When you start Scheme . . . you are interacting with a text-editing system called Edwin, which is a Scheme implementation of the Emacs text editor.
Now please excuse me while I don my asbestos suit . . .
Some of this stuff seems a bit far-fetched:
While in 2006, DDoS attacks with botnets were mainly targeted at unwanted competitors, online betting offices and consumer protection sites, 2007 also saw large attacks launched on critical infrastructures. In April, the stock exchange nearly crashed, when a DDoS attack on the electronic trading system disconnected it from the Internet for several days, resulting in automated control programs loosing control and attempting to divest shares in a panic reaction.
It seems the number of botnet attacks should actually decrease as more and more people replace their old computers with new ones that have newer, more secure versions of Windows:
My thoughts to explain this drop are the following : the new (unpatched) computers replaced the old (infected) ones, so the global number of bots has decreased. 99.9% of the new computers must be Windows XP SP2 with firewall turned on - and that's why the new computers are not yet infected. XP firewall does a fair job in protecting a computer from the most common attacks *from the outside* (137,139,135 & 445 are closed), allowing to visit windowsupdate and download the missing patches. So my assymption is that 99% of the new computer will stay clean ... at least until their users begin to click each and every popup on the screen, install an IM program and receive xmas & ny wishes in their mailboxes.
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2006-12-27
Disclaimer: Yes, I am a SANS Institute employee. :)
I use a Palm Zire 31, and I like it. Here's why:
* Much longer battery life than my cell phone
* I don't want my PDA use sucking my phone battery life
* I have some very useful apps on the Palm that don't exist for my phone
* If I lose or break the Palm, I'm only out $89 or so, rather than the $500 that a Treo costs
* E-books are much more comfortable to read on the palm screen than my phone's screen
Evolution hooks into Google Calendar would be better. A quick and easy way to post your calendar on the web, right from within Evolution. That would be quite useful to a lot of people, myself included.
Here are some brief thoughts on OSX vs. Ubuntu. My wife has a Macbook Pro running OS X, and I have an Acer Aspire laptop running Ubuntu 6.06, so I've had a chance to use both.
Macbook Pro:
* Nice eye candy, some people like the way windows do that slurpy thing when you minimize them, etc. Personally I don't like the dock, find it a bit big, clunky, and lacking real information about what programs I have open.
* Most everything 'just works' the way it's supposed to. If you can get into the "Mac way" of doing things, eg, iphoto, itunes, etc. then you'll be right at home. The drawbacks are that OSX is not very customizable the way Gnome (the default Ubuntu desktop environment) is.
* Terminal application is somewhat lacking. It has basic features but cannot be customized very much. If you do a lot of work on the command line you'll probably want a third-party terminal application to get your real work done.
* The wireless setup is not straightforward, and if you're not used to it can be a bit confusing.
* If you want an office suite, you have to pay quite a bit extra to get it. MS Office for Mac is something like $379 or so. If you're a student you might get it for less.
Ubuntu:
* Easy installer, even on newer hardware seems to work well. I had out-of-the-box wifi connection with the Atheros chipset adapter in my laptop, even with WPA and WEP. I've never had a Linux laptop working wifi before I tried Ubuntu.
* If you install EasyUbuntu, you'll have most of the proprietary codecs and other stuff that most people want to be able to watch DVDs, see Flash movies, play mp3s, etc.
* Takes a bit more hands-on tweaking to get it working exactly the way you want, but is much more flexible and customizable than OS X.
* The office type applications are finally getting to the point where a business user or student can be productive with them. For example, Evolution (the Outlook clone) has come a long way as far as usability goes, and it syncs just fine with my Palm Pilot.
* Free (as in beer).
* There are a few downsides. You won't be able to run some Windows-only applications without an emulator, but I guess that could be said for Macs as well. Also, with any Linux distribution you pretty much have to learn some command line to really be able to use your system to it's full potential.
More props to Zork:
r %22
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=xyzzy
http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%22hello+sailo
And what's up with all the red-background links, anyway?
Although it's not appropriate for all types of items, I'm really glad that craigslist.org is available as an eBay alternative. Recently I had to sell some large, heavy items and found the craigslist site much easier to use and also free of charge.
Perhaps someone can take a note from the Craigslist playbook and design something to compete with eBay on a worldwide scale. Google base perhaps? Anything less cluttered than eBay, where sellers are not nickel-and-dimed to death for every little thing would be a welcome alternative.
Here you go - I'm an end-user, not programmer so I have no idea what to do with this. This is what appeared after I ran the 'make' command, after going through ./configure:
u ti ls' /usr/bin/guile -c \u til s'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/scarolan/downloads/gnucash-2.0.0/src/core-
FLAVOR=gnome
"(set! %load-path (cons \"\" %load-path)) \
(primitive-load \"./gw-core-utils-spec.scm\") \
(gw:generate-wrapset \"gw-core-utils\")"
ERROR: no code for module (g-wrap)
make[3]: *** [gw-core-utils.scm] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/scarolan/downloads/gnucash-2.0.0/src/core-
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/scarolan/downloads/gnucash-2.0.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/scarolan/downloads/gnucash-2.0.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I gave it my best shot but this software is way too much of a pain in the arse to get installed. This one of the main reasons people will not switch to Linux, and well, they're right!
I attempted to install Gnucash 2.0 on a computer running CentOS 4.3, and after going through 30 minutes of dependency hell to get all the required programs installed so I could compile Gnucash, I finally got a fatal error stating that g-wrap wasn't working properly.
Maybe I'll try again later if someone creates an RPM installer, because I don't have time to mess around with the C compiler and obscure config files.