[K12OSN] Database for school desktop use
anthony baldwin
anthonybaldwin at snet.net
Sat Feb 21 10:13:01 UTC 2004
I'll be watching this thread, myself.
Have you looked at
http://www.knoda.org
http://www.rekallrevealed.org/
http://www.koffice.org/kexi/
I haven't tried any of these yet, myself, but a while back I had tried
some similar products and fialed to get the database server working,
since I was trying to serve the database and access it from the same
machine and was confused about how to go about setting this up. All the
directions I could find were for setting up the database on a server and
then accessing it from another machine on a network.
I'd like to have something like this working, though, to set up my own
gradebooks (gGradebook is a bit too simple to be truly useful, couldn't
get opengrade to install and run) and also to catalog my book collection.
tony
Andy Rabagliati wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We are making considerable progress in South Africa to develop
> a workable school curriculum that is Linux-friendly.
>
> Directives have been announced by the Education Department that
> say that curriculum objectives be Open-source friendly.
>
> I have been working with Eshowe High School, where I installed
> an LTSP lab - see http://wizzy.org.za/ - which is operating
> well. They still need help, as they have no Linux experts onsite,
> but they have commendably jumped in with both feet.
>
> They are going through their checklist.
>
> * Word Processor - <check> AbiWord. (I do not like OO - heavy)
> * Spreadsheet - <check> Gnumeric.
> * Database.
>
> Please do not say mysql or something - I use those all the time,
> I need an Access-like file-based database. I seem to remember
> a proprietary DB that went open source last year that might
> fit the bill, but I cannot remember the name.
>
> All my google searches are hopelessly non-specific - queries
> for "database school linux msaccess" return far too many
> useless results.
>
> An MS-Access replacement, anyone - curriculum-friendly ?
>
> Cheers, Andy!
>
> http://wizzy.org.za/
>
>
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Anthony Baldwin
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