On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 08:54, Phil Scarratt wrote: > Edwin Humphries wrote: > > > I'm trying to convert my personal PC use from Windoze to Linux. But > > there is a Win application that I've used for a long time for flat-file > > databases: Filemaker Pro. It's much better than other simple Win > > databases (eg, Access) and it isn't Microsoft! > > > > Can anyone suggest a Linux alternative? My key database is a database of > > my experimentation with bush food plants (yes, I know geek and gardener > > seem somewhat contradictory :-). This has several fields that contain > > bitmaps (photographs of plants). I know about SQL databases, but it > > seems a tad overkill for this - and there isn't a simple GUI front-end. > >
There is a product called Rekall http://www.thekompany.com/products/rekall/ which provides a front end to a number of backend dbs, inc MySQL and PostgreSQL > > Short answer: there is nothing that replaces Filemaker Pro or the like. > One of the areas I think is lacking in Linux (more than happy to be > proved wrong of course). OpenOffice does an OK job at being able to > create an interface for the DB backends, but it's not as "user-friendly" > as the Windows apps available - although it's more than a year since I > was experimenting and it could well have changed (most if not all > aspects of OO have only improved). I'm a little surprised that OO can't > handle (as others have reported - I've no idea myself) bitmaps when the > DB backends can. > > Filemaker Pro is originally a Mac program - is there an OSX version? > There may be a Linux version if so. May be worth sreaching. > > Fil -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
