Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

[Kristian Niemi <rance@mbnet.fi>]

Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a relatives 
computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only obstacle is ... 
access. And perhaps I could learn mySQL, but she /really/ doesn't want to.

What she needs isn't really a superb database-program, but a 
`ok'-database-program, /to which there is a GUI/. I believe I have tried 
to find GUIs to mySQL, without any real luck. But perhaps I wasn't 
looking in the right places?

Is there a linux equivalent to Access (i.e. an *easy to use*, 
preferrably WYSIWYG, database-program)?


Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 01:30, Kristian Niemi wrote:
> --snip--
>
> > One thing for which I'm still searching for though, is some equivalent 
> > to Microsoft Access. OpenOffice works beautifully, taking care of 
> > everything else Office used to do -- and in most parts succeeding quite 
> > well -- but I haven't found a database-solution I've liked / known how 
> > to use.
>
>
> MS Access is as much a database as I am a refrigerator. :) If you really
> need a database, mySQL is a great free alternative. If you don't
> know/aren't willing to learn SQL, then you don't REALLY need a database
> any more than I NEED a 97-ton dump truck to return a rented movie. :)