On 08Mar2011 03:31, Meg <kimada.news@gmail.com> 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,
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One thing did the phosphors answer, only this and nothing more,
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