LinuxSA Mailing list archives

  From: Martin Sandiford <ms@mcdev.com.au>
  To  : <tlt@smug.adelaide.edu.au>, "Linux Submit <tlt@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:57:15 +1030

Re: Databases for Linux

You could try the Linux Software Map.  There are pointers, downloads, web
interfaces at:

http://www.execpc.com/~lsm/

"man -k" and "whatis" also work surprisingly well for me :)

Being something of a newbie to redhat, I do not know what the rpm tools
offer in this area, but I imagine it would have facilities like this too.

Cheers,
Martin

P.S. RedHat Sparc works great on my SLC - I'm using it as a XTerminal.  Just
*had* to tell someone that.

-----Original Message-----
From: tlt@smug.adelaide.edu.au <tlt@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Date: Wednesday, 25 November 1998 11:42
Subject: Re: Databases for Linux


>> I have just had another amazing Linux experience.. for those
>> with RedHat 5.1 and above (not sure about previous versions)
>> there is a tcl/tk front end to Postgres which makes it
>> look like MSAccess97 called PgAccess.
>> (type 'pgaccess')

... stuff removed...

>Call me a sook, but a nice, friendly local software map, (or even an index
>with descriptions) would make life a lot easier not only for our cherished
>newbies, but also for us poor advocats that put someone onto linux only to
>have them complain that they can't do anything in linux that they could in
>windows.


-- 
Check out the LinuxSA web pages at http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
  mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject