Re: [K12OSN] Database for school desktop use

[anthony baldwin <anthonybaldwin snet net>]

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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