Linux business environment
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Tuesday 9 June 2009 23:43

I just did my first tax stuff. Germany has this
ELSTER system that has an open API, so in theory it
would be possible to get it going on Linux. But my
situation is that I locally only have an OS X iBook
PPC, a PlayStation 3, an OpenWRT Linksys router and
a P800. So I could try to get it running on one of
those, or on my Linux server back in the old
country. Taxbird should be a nice application to do
those taxes, but it's a pretty complicated
graphical interface it's using, and some serious
crypto signing. So after a lot of compiling from
git and tarballs I can run taxbird as an X Window
server from my remote linux server on the local OS
X X11 client. And hit the apply button that then
successfully sends my signed data from the old
county to the Geier. Nice.

by Roland van Ipenburg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ipenburg/blog/posts/work/2009/06/09/linux-business-environment/