Open Source Business Systems

Reid Cooper

Don't forget about LibreOffice.

DustinB3403

@Reid-Cooper Good point.

That is almost a given for an Open Source Desktop environment.

StrongBad

@DustinB3403 said:

@Reid-Cooper Good point.

That is almost a given for an Open Source Desktop environment.

Almost, but there is a small but very serious competitor too: Calligra Suite

Reid Cooper

We almost forgot OpenVPN and ZeroTier.

JaredBusch

@coliver said:

I've been looking at Observium a bit. Haven't used it yet.

I installed it, had a couple things I would like to change and when searching for threads, I read some really crappy info on the coders. So I abandoned it.

I put LibreNMS on my plate to test instead. Have not got to it yet.

DustinB3403

Of course there is a huge selection of desktop and laptop Operating systems to choose from. As Scott mentioned there's Linux Mint. There's also the entire Ubuntu Family including Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and for a very Windows Feeling version ChaletOS among many other Debian/Ubuntu variants.

There's also CentOS, Fedora, Suse and OpenSuse as the other top contenders.

StrongBad

VirtualBox if you need type 2 virtualization for any reason.

stacksofplates

Sorry everyone, I've had a super busy day or I'd have posted sooner. ERPNext is really cool. I used it for a few years, but I ultimately ended up switching to Wave because of the update schedules. V4 came out last year and I migrated from 3 to 4 (with many problems). I think the beta for v5 came out the end of last year. It migrated to master early this year. In July I tried to upgrade to v5 from v4 and it just exploded. I went to the forums and the reply I got was "You're version is quite old." The date for my update was some time in May, and it was only July. They made some changes to their scripts and pushed them out. I tried again, and it exploded again later on in the migration. I just figured it would be ironed out soon, so I decided to wait a while longer. Then they announced v6 coming out.

It was just too much to keep up with the updates for the system and making sure they didn't break anything (which happened a few times inside of one version). The thing that really turned me off was their install script had missing dependencies. In the middle of the install it did an

npm install <something>

but never installed npm with all of the other packages. I was also never able to get the CentOS 7 installer to work. Only got it to work on Ubuntu.

They've come a long way from how it used to be. Version 3 was all done manually and you had to configure superivosrd, gunicorn, nginx, and everything else by yourself. V4 on frappe helped with their install scripts, but you still had to install things like wkhtmltopdf. The new version has real time notifications and changes with node, so it might be worth looking at again. It's just nice to have Wave do all of the maintenance for me.

stacksofplates

@DustinB3403 said:

Below are the Selling and Customer Invoicing sections. I don't know if it accepts payments, but it doesn't appear to be able to produce an invoice.

Invoices are under Accounting>Sales Invoices. It's not under the selling section (which is kind of weird).

If anyone wants to try a demo here's the link https://demo.erpnext.com/desk#

scottalanmiller

Were you using it as an ERP or just as basic financial app?

DustinB3403

@johnhooks Sorry john,

I mean to say "it does appear to be able to produce invoices"

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said:

Were you using it as an ERP or just as basic financial app?

Mostly financial. I had the delusion I would create a BOM for each site I build and I could track each one for terms of support and things like that. I did use the support module a good bit also. But it was mostly as a financial app.

stacksofplates

@DustinB3403 said:

@johnhooks Sorry john,

I mean to say "it does appear to be able to produce invoices"

Ha no problem!

Ambarishrh

OrangeHRM

scottalanmiller

FreePBX for VoiP PBX