Re: [lubuntu-users] iso replacement for LibreOffice Base?

2016-04-04 Thread Josh Knight
As someone else mentioned, Kexi does look promising for your needs. I am not familiar with it, but it looks to be an open source alternative to Microsoft Access, and they have had recent releases so looks maintained. It's also in the Ubuntu repos http://kexi-project.org/about.html Installing on

Re: [lubuntu-users] iso replacement for LibreOffice Base?

2016-04-04 Thread Israel
On 04/04/2016 01:59 AM, bill . wrote: Hi all, New member and brand new Lubuntu and LXDE user here. I'm accustomed to Manjaro xfce but wanted to try something just a tad "lighter." So far I'm very impressed with the look and snappy feel. Trust me as a fan of arch-based distros it pains me to s

Re: [lubuntu-users] iso replacement for LibreOffice Base?

2016-04-04 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi There, In the off chance you don't know about the free documentation for LibreOffice, I'm passing on this link:- http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ BW, Ian -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org -- My writing - https://sites.google.com/site/ianbr

Re: [lubuntu-users] iso replacement for LibreOffice Base?

2016-04-04 Thread Aere Greenway
On 04/04/2016 09:39 AM, E James wrote: At this moment I can't name any Linux based user interface, other than LibreOffice, which can manage the tables without an extensive knowledge of SQL commands. Bill: Modern programming languages (such as Java and, I presume, QT C++) can access databases

Re: [lubuntu-users] iso replacement for LibreOffice Base?

2016-04-04 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, SQL is something I intend to study in more detail so I've kept an eye out for SQL info on the Internet. I only have one suggestion so far, for learning SQL:- http://www.w3schools.com/sql/ HTH. Ian -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org -- My writing - https://

Re: [lubuntu-users] iso replacement for LibreOffice Base?

2016-04-04 Thread E James
On 04/04/16 07:59, bill . wrote: > Hi all, > > New member and brand new Lubuntu and LXDE user here. I'm accustomed to > Manjaro xfce but wanted to try something just a tad "lighter." So far I'm > very impressed with the look and snappy feel. Trust me as a fan of arch-based > distros it pains me

[lubuntu-users] iso replacement for LibreOffice Base?

2016-04-04 Thread bill .
Hi all, New member and brand new Lubuntu and LXDE user here. I'm accustomed to Manjaro xfce but wanted to try something just a tad "lighter." So far I'm very impressed with the look and snappy feel. Trust me as a fan of arch-based distros it pains me to say that but... One of my goals is to be