Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:20:54AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 20090526144742.GD5158@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote:
> >On a side note, what I could use is a Linux version of MS Access. That
> >really is one very useful tool, and even that doesn't require an
> >RDBMS.
>
> Actually, it does. The Microsoft Jet Database Engine is a required part of
> an MS Access install. MS Excel might even require it at this point.
Sorry, I was mistaken about the meaning of RDBMS. I was thinking about
a DBMS that uses some sort of server which can be run on another
computer (or the same).
> You might check out the database component of KOffice 2 (still in beta,
> IIRC). It is supposed to be a bit friendlier than the OO.o database
> component and should, by default, use an SQLite database embedded in the
> document.
Sounds good --- I'll try it out. 44 packages to install ...
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