Free gnucash software for linux

jGnucashLib is a Java library for manipulating the file format of the GnuCash accounting software.
jGnucashLib project comes with a small tag library for better visualizing its content and some minor tools to get you started on automating and scripting your financial data handling.
It is distributed in 3 versions:
(I know its cheap; It was just a lot of work and thus Im not comfortable taking it all to the open source. But at least I wanted to give something back that can be used for a lot of usefull new code to be written.)
Enhancements:
- This release can parse more features of gnucash files.
- It has better support for multiple currencies and funds/stock.
- There are many small bugfixes and added convenience methods.
- More Javadoc and fewer checkstyle warnings.

TuxBank is a simple web based application that allows you to manage your finances by seperating your money into virtual "accounts". It caters to small incomes.
It is a simple tool that users with simple budgets can use when programs such as Quicken or GnuCash are overly complex for their budget.
TuxBank is written in php and uses mysql to store data. It is open source software licensed under the Gnu Public License. TuxBank is very much a beta program that is fairly incomplete at this time. However, I personally find it to be very usable in its current state.
TuxBanks interface uses standard compliant XHTML/CSS markup. It has only been tested using Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari, however, it should render just fine using any standards compliant browser.
Enhancements:
- You can now customize the toolbar.
- Simple Budget Helper is now included as part of TuxBank.
- There is now client-side form validation.
- You can now see the total amount of money per day.
- You can no longer withdraw or deposit negative amounts.
- Some more error handling was added.
- Many error messages were clarified.
- You can no longer name an account with only whitespace.
- A potential security hole was plugged.
- A MySQL error that would occur after a certain number of transactions was fixed.
- Minor theme changes were made.

Libchipcard is a library for easy access to chip cards via chip card readers (terminals). Libchipcard2 currently works under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and (partially) Windows.
A graphical setup tool (using KDE), man pages and German translations to all KDE programs and all console tools are provided.
This library is used by OpenHBCI and thus by AqMoney, GOpenHBCI, KOpenHBCI, LxBank and GnuCash to provide support for German Homebanking cards. Recently, AqBanking joined the family of programs using Libchipcard2.
Whats New in 3.9.1 Beta Release:
- This release adds support for the latest Cyberjack device.
- All references to Libchipcard3 have been renamed to simply Libchipcard (without a number).
- This also affects the configuration files and paths, so you will have to move your configuration files.
Whats New in 3.0.3 Stable Release:
- This version includes several new features that have been back-ported from the (soon to become) libchipcard4 branch.
- In particular, newly supported readers are CardMedic 2, SCR 331, SCM 3320, Omnikey Cardman 4040, and also for the card type eGK.
- For the Celetronic CardStar2 the second slot of this readers is supported now as well.
- Some build problems have been fixed.

Admelix is a live CD distribution based on Ubuntu Linux with tools for business administration.

Its main objective is to guide managers of small and medium-size businesses towards GNU/Linux and open source software.

In addition to the live CD, the projects web also provides information about open and free tools for business administration.

Software included in this version are:

Financial: FacturaLUX lite 1.8, Gnofin 0.8.4, GnuCash 1.8.10, Gretl 1.4.1, Grisbi 0.5.7, Linuxtrade 3.65

Office: Abiword 2.4.1, Clara OCR 20031214, Evolution 2.4.1, Planner 0.13, Glabels 2.0.2, Gnumeric 1.5.90, OpenOffice 2.0 OpenOffice Base, OpenOffice Calc, OpenOffice Draw, OpenOffice Writer, OpenOffice Math, OpenOffice Impress, PlanMaker (rev 273), TextMaker (rev 406), Scribus 1.2.2.1, Gtodo 0.14.

Programming: Amaya 8.5, Anjuta 1.2.4, BlueFish 1.0.1, Glade 2.12.0, Mono 1.1.8.3, MonoDevelop 0.7, NVU 1.0, Postgresql 8.0

Graphics: DIA 0.94, GIMP 2.2, QCAD 2.0.4.0, Sodipodi 0.34

Internet: Firefox 1.0.7, GAIM 1.5, Thunderbird 1.0.7, Bittorrent 3.4.2, XChat 2.4.4, gFTP 2.0.18, Gnomemeeting 1.2.2

Since I am the person who manages the money for our house, I need an efficient way to keep track of our expenses and an easy way to calculate who owes what to whom at the end of the month. There are lots of good free software utilities for managing money like GnuCash, KMyMoney and the wonderful Gnumeric spreadsheet. I had been using Gnumeric to manage the money for the last 8 months, but now that we have some people staying at the house for just the summer, and other leaving and coming back in September, the spreadsheet was not able to adjust to these irregular circumstances.

The reason I decided to write my own application from scratch instead of using an already existing money management application was because my problem is multi-person orientation and most (if not all) of the money management programs I have tried are single-person oriented. For example GnuCash will let you setup accounts that show you all the money moving to and from a single person. But in my house things like food are paid by any person and shared by every other person. Thus to efficiently and easily calculate who owes how much, it must take into account the fact that one pizza may be paid for by one person, but it was eaten by 4 people. Also I dont want to have to divide up the amounts myself and put it into GnuCash with multiple accounts, because then I might as well be doing it on paper.

I could have spent my time learning to make an already existing application do exactly what I want; and I probably would have found something pretty close. But I decided that it would be faster to just program it from scratch and then I would be sure I would get exactly what I wanted. I think I was right; it took less then 2 weeks to finished writing this program.

The program is currently called Adventure Money, but if anyone can think of a better name for it let me know and Ill gladly change it.

When you first launch the program you will see it has five views, all of which can be seen in the screenshots below.