Feature request - Linux server support

Thanks for taking the time to visit here, ebsf.

I appreciate the detailed information you've provided. This gives me a clearer understanding of your concerns.

I know it's ideal to have the DSM compiled in a 64-bit package that will run on current (16.04, 18.04, 20.04) LTS (i.e., business-class) Ubuntu servers and A DEB installer package to run the Linux database server manager.

 I'll definitely share this suggestion to our product development team so they might consider adding this in any future updates. Please note that our goal here is to help save time and keep things simple when doing a task in QuickBooks.

On the other hand, you can message our live support agent to assist you right away. Here's how:

1. From the Help menu, select QuickBooks Desktop Help.
2. Click Contact us.
3. Enter your concern about the Linux file server. 
4. Click Start a message.

Please tag me directly if you need more help.

@GlinetteC, thanks for your response and for forwarding this to the product development team.  This definitely will make life simpler and far more secure for lots of small businesses.

I'm not a Linux dev but I imagine the code base will be largely if not entirely identical, and my impression is creating a DEB package is as simple as creating a RPM package (open the tarball and run debuild instead of rpmbuild), so the only significant question is figuring out the x64 dependencies (which all should be open-source) and recompiling them in (probably just using make).

If I'm right, a competent Linux dev could do this in as little as a day.  Taking into account QC, this could be up on the site, available for download, in a week.

If they were smart, they'd also publish the package on the Ubuntu/Canonical repositories, or establish their own repositories as Google does with Chrome, so the package can be installed with the apt (Ubuntu/Debian) or yum (Fedora/Red Hat) commands, which is much easier for users and how it's done.  This set-up can be done after the new packages are available for download, however.

Because this is an enabling utility, free for download, it likely is in their interest to get this done and posted to the site sooner rather than later and NOT wait for a product cycle.  Remind them that Satya Nadella had SQL Server ported to Linux a few years ago, and Windows 10 has had an optional Linux kernel component for 4-6 months, which must have required a massive development effort, not to mention cultural shift.  Intuit doesn't have the same constraints here, and can leapfrog from 14 years behind (with the 32-bit DSM) to current in maybe a week.

Thanks again.