On 08Mar2011 03:31, Meg <[email protected]> wrote: | I've been using Linux for about 2 months now. After several unsuccessful | attempts I managed to get Mint 10 - Julia - installed. It's on one | (or maybe two) partitions and Windows XP is on another. When I boot the | computer I can choose to start either Mint or Windows. | | What I'm looking for is a simple database to use on the Linux side. I've | been maintaining my financial stuff in MS Works' database for several | years now, and it works fine for me, but of course I can't use it in | Linux - not even in Wine.
I've just had a glance at the Works web pages; the finanical stuff is described as a "speardsheet". If you're really using it that way I suggest you look at Gnumeric or KSpread. There are other spreadsheets available for Linux also. [...snip...] | The research I've done so far hasn't been helpful. I've found a bunch | of other databases mentioned but the information provided was way over my | head. It's possible they were talking about programming, but it's been | years (like about 35 :) ) since I did any of that and I don't really | want to get back into it. Anything labelled "database" will usually be a relational database or some kind; PGSQL and MySQL are the popular ones in the UNIX/Linux etc world. However, I think you want a spreadsheets, and _not_ a "database". So try Gnumeric and/or KSpread. And when looking around you want to use the work spreadsheet, not database. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Deep into the monitor peering, long I sat there wond'ring, fearing, Doubting, while the disk kept churning, turning yet to churn some more. "Save!" I said, "You cursed mother! Save my data from before!" One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more, Just, "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
