Tax Package running on Linux?

Posted by Rob Lindauer on December 11, 2008, 6:32 pm

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May be the wrong NG for me to ask - and it's probably too early in the
tax season as well - but I'm curious whether anyone here has succeeded
in running one of the Windows tax packages (e.g., TT, TaxCut, TaxAct) on
Linux (via Wine or CrossOver Office)?

I've moved this year from Windows to Linux.

(I do have Quicken 2007 running under CrossOver Office (it works, but
the slowness and repainting tend to drive me nuts.)

I suppose there's no way of knowing whether one of the 2008 tax packages
will work under Wine or CrossOver, so I may end up using one of the
online tax packages this year.

Thx, Rob L
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Posted by DA on December 11, 2008, 9:54 pm

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Rob, I'm in the same boat. In fact, tax programs - TT specifically - (and
also MS Streets and Trips - their one software I do like) made me delay
switching to Linux for that long. I did play with Linux on and off with an
intent to switch since 1996 but never made the move until just a month
ago.

I have not tried Wine on this PC yet but I don't believe there will be
issues other than TT appears to be using .Net libraries for Internet
access (at least, maybe for something else, too). And those are a pain to
install properly under Wine. Also looks troublesome TTs access to previous
years data - I'm not exactly sure how to move that over.

In any case, I did not throw away the old Win XP installation disk, I just
installed it as a virtual machine using Sun's xVM VirtualBox (awesome
thing, by the way, highly recommended) and I'm planning on installing
everything that's stubbornly Windows under that virtual machine.

If you have more time to play with TT (or other tax software) under Wine,
please come back to thins thread and post your results. I would love to
see you success and learn how you did it.

Good luck!

DA

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Rob Lindauer wrote:

> May be the wrong NG for me to ask - and it's probably too early in the

> tax season as well - but I'm curious whether anyone here has succeeded

> in running one of the Windows tax packages (e.g., TT, TaxCut, TaxAct)

> on

> Linux (via Wine or CrossOver Office)?

> I've moved this year from Windows to Linux.

> (I do have Quicken 2007 running under CrossOver Office (it works, but

> the slowness and repainting tend to drive me nuts.)

> I suppose there's no way of knowing whether one of the 2008 tax

> packages

> will work under Wine or CrossOver, so I may end up using one of the

> online tax packages this year.

> Thx, Rob L

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Posted by XS11E on December 12, 2008, 12:24 pm

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info@air-space.us (DA) wrote:

> Rob, I'm in the same boat.

Ditto, although Quicken is reported to "sort of" run in CrossOver
Office, I don't believe TT will?

The lack of the two is why I tell people that Linux is completely
useless to me, without Intuit software I have no justifiable reason to
even own a computer.

You could, I believe, run Windows in a virtual machine in Linux but why
bother when Vista works so nicely?

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Posted by Michael Arm on December 12, 2008, 4:57 pm

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wrote:

>info@air-space.us (DA) wrote:

>> Rob, I'm in the same boat.

>Ditto, although Quicken is reported to "sort of" run in CrossOver

>Office, I don't believe TT will?

>The lack of the two is why I tell people that Linux is completely

>useless to me, without Intuit software I have no justifiable reason to

>even own a computer.

>You could, I believe, run Windows in a virtual machine in Linux but why

>bother when Vista works so nicely?

VM is the only way to go with Linux. VMware or SUN's VM work great. I
only have experience WMWare products and they have run everything I
have thrown at it, including Oracle database software, and heavy duty
Biometrics applications from several vendors. The run under Red Hat
with Windows 2003 Server. You just need a valid M$ O$ license.

Mike

Posted by Rob Lindauer on December 13, 2008, 12:53 am

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Michael Arm wrote:

> VM is the only way to go with Linux. VMware or SUN's VM work great. I

> only have experience WMWare products and they have run everything I

> have thrown at it, including Oracle database software, and heavy duty

> Biometrics applications from several vendors. The run under Red Hat

> with Windows 2003 Server. You just need a valid M$ O$ license.

> Mike

For me, that's the point: My PC is M$ free, I don't have a Windows
license valid for it, and so the VMWare solution isn't a way I can
legitimately go. I may try running this year's tax package under Wine
or under CrossOver Office (but I'd have to buy the tax package just to
find out it doesn't work) - but I'm more likely just to abandon
purchasing the software and rather use the TT (or other) web service. -RL
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