Updated the list of experimental ebuilds

The ebuild page has been updated to include some more ebuilds. Most of them can also be found in the gentoo bugzilla. The easiest way to access them is using gensync to access my repository (instructions at the end of this page).

Two of my ebuilds have been added to the portage tree (knowledgeTree and OpenWebStats). Hope they will be useful...

Posted at: 18:32 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

A new accounting tool

During the last few months I have used GnuCash to do track where my money went. Recently I discovered legder which can be used for the same kind of task. Is it any better? I'd say without a doubt. It has no graphical frontend and uses plain text files for the management of the data but it's capabilities are clearly superior to GnuCash. One thing I was lacking in GnuCash was the ability to plan ahead. This is absolutely no problem with ledger and the generated plans can later be used to easily compare the budgets with the amounts of money actual spent.

Some parts of the application are still beta (didn't get python support to work) but the basic functionality is already impressive.

There is an emacs mode available for the application but this is still very basic. I hope I'll get the time to add some functions I would like to have.

If you want to run the thing under Gentoo then you can download the experimental ebuild. The python use flag of this ebuild does not work yet.

Posted at: 18:16 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo