From wayland at sothcott.co.uk Mon May 1 12:08:42 2017 From: wayland at sothcott.co.uk (Wayland Sothcott) Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 12:08:42 -0000 Subject: [Colchester] Linux Mint 18 on main computer Message-ID: <360765ee-cc04-e076-593c-21c3beed86b4@sothcott.co.uk> Hello LUG, What distro of Linux are you using? On this laptop (HP EliteBook 8440p) I'm enjoying Linux Mint 18 MATE' desktop (that's mat-tay not mate). I've had to solve a number of issues to ditch Windows, I can help you solve yours. I still have Windows 7 on my desktop machine. It's important that I have the choice. My Raspberry PI is running Kodi and plugged into the telly. Did you know iTunes can use it as speakers? There's a funny story about how I discovered this. Regards, Wayland. From tony.bronze at tiscali.co.uk Mon May 1 12:41:56 2017 From: tony.bronze at tiscali.co.uk (Tony) Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 12:41:56 -0000 Subject: [Colchester] Linux Mint 18 on main computer In-Reply-To: <360765ee-cc04-e076-593c-21c3beed86b4@sothcott.co.uk> References: <360765ee-cc04-e076-593c-21c3beed86b4@sothcott.co.uk> Message-ID: <9870a909-3dc0-7ed9-926d-aa3e4713404f@tiscali.co.uk> On this desk top I have LXLE. I liked the early versions but think it is losing direction a bit with a few annoyances. I have Peppermint on one laptop and another laptop with Manjaro on. I don't have anything with Windoze. If I can't do it with Linux then it isn't worth doing :) (although I find I can do everything I need with Linux). Tried Mint but didn't like it. I prefer lighter distros that run faster on my older equipment. Tony On 01/05/17 13:07, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote: > Hello LUG, > > What distro of Linux are you using? > > On this laptop (HP EliteBook 8440p) I'm enjoying Linux Mint 18 MATE' > desktop (that's mat-tay not mate). > > I've had to solve a number of issues to ditch Windows, I can help you > solve yours. I still have Windows 7 on my desktop machine. It's > important that I have the choice. > > My Raspberry PI is running Kodi and plugged into the telly. Did you > know iTunes can use it as speakers? There's a funny story about how I > discovered this. > > Regards, > > Wayland. > > > _______________________________________________ > Colchester mailing list > Colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/colchester From wayland at sothcott.co.uk Mon May 1 13:00:03 2017 From: wayland at sothcott.co.uk (Wayland Sothcott) Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 13:00:03 -0000 Subject: [Colchester] Linux Mint 18 on main computer In-Reply-To: <9870a909-3dc0-7ed9-926d-aa3e4713404f@tiscali.co.uk> References: <360765ee-cc04-e076-593c-21c3beed86b4@sothcott.co.uk> <9870a909-3dc0-7ed9-926d-aa3e4713404f@tiscali.co.uk> Message-ID: Tony, That's excellent. I find the biggest problem is the particular applications I need to use. A small one which has no alternative is MikroTik's winbox.exe but that works beautifully under WINE. I stole the fonts from the WIndows font directory and pasted them into the .fonts on Linux which made it look a lot better. The other application is MS Access. There just seems to be no way to either run this on Linux or rewrite the frontend in anything on Linux. Yes I am already using MySQL back end on Linux. So I installed Windows XP in a VirtualBox and ran it in there. Since the VirtualBox has networking the MS Access database front end is able to use the existing MySQL database. If I could get a version of MS Access to run in WINE I would be very happy. If I could find an open source cross platform rapid application development environment I would be even happier. I tried install Free Pascal but it was such a dogs dinner I had to format my hard drive. Wayland. On 01/05/17 13:41, Tony via Colchester wrote: > On this desk top I have LXLE. I liked the early versions but think it > is losing direction a bit with a few annoyances. I have Peppermint on > one laptop and another laptop with Manjaro on. I don't have anything > with Windoze. If I can't do it with Linux then it isn't worth doing > :) (although I find I can do everything I need with Linux). > > Tried Mint but didn't like it. I prefer lighter distros that run > faster on my older equipment. > > Tony > > On 01/05/17 13:07, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote: >> Hello LUG, >> >> What distro of Linux are you using? >> >> On this laptop (HP EliteBook 8440p) I'm enjoying Linux Mint 18 MATE' >> desktop (that's mat-tay not mate). >> >> I've had to solve a number of issues to ditch Windows, I can help you >> solve yours. I still have Windows 7 on my desktop machine. It's >> important that I have the choice. >> >> My Raspberry PI is running Kodi and plugged into the telly. Did you >> know iTunes can use it as speakers? There's a funny story about how I >> discovered this. >> >> Regards, >> >> Wayland. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Colchester mailing list >> Colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/colchester > > > _______________________________________________ > Colchester mailing list > Colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/colchester From chriscpritchard at gmail.com Mon May 1 13:01:33 2017 From: chriscpritchard at gmail.com (Chris Pritchard) Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 13:01:33 -0000 Subject: [Colchester] Linux Mint 18 on main computer In-Reply-To: References: <360765ee-cc04-e076-593c-21c3beed86b4@sothcott.co.uk> <9870a909-3dc0-7ed9-926d-aa3e4713404f@tiscali.co.uk> Message-ID: Why access though, it's basically depreciated! Chris On 1 May 2017 14:00, "Wayland Sothcott via Colchester" < colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Tony, > > That's excellent. > > I find the biggest problem is the particular applications I need to use. A > small one which has no alternative is MikroTik's winbox.exe but that works > beautifully under WINE. I stole the fonts from the WIndows font directory > and pasted them into the .fonts on Linux which made it look a lot better. > > The other application is MS Access. There just seems to be no way to > either run this on Linux or rewrite the frontend in anything on Linux. Yes > I am already using MySQL back end on Linux. So I installed Windows XP in a > VirtualBox and ran it in there. Since the VirtualBox has networking the MS > Access database front end is able to use the existing MySQL database. > > If I could get a version of MS Access to run in WINE I would be very happy. > > If I could find an open source cross platform rapid application > development environment I would be even happier. I tried install Free > Pascal but it was such a dogs dinner I had to format my hard drive. > > Wayland. > > > On 01/05/17 13:41, Tony via Colchester wrote: > >> On this desk top I have LXLE. I liked the early versions but think it is >> losing direction a bit with a few annoyances. I have Peppermint on one >> laptop and another laptop with Manjaro on. I don't have anything with >> Windoze. If I can't do it with Linux then it isn't worth doing :) >> (although I find I can do everything I need with Linux). >> >> Tried Mint but didn't like it. I prefer lighter distros that run faster >> on my older equipment. >> >> Tony >> >> On 01/05/17 13:07, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote: >> >>> Hello LUG, >>> >>> What distro of Linux are you using? >>> >>> On this laptop (HP EliteBook 8440p) I'm enjoying Linux Mint 18 MATE' >>> desktop (that's mat-tay not mate). >>> >>> I've had to solve a number of issues to ditch Windows, I can help you >>> solve yours. I still have Windows 7 on my desktop machine. It's important >>> that I have the choice. >>> >>> My Raspberry PI is running Kodi and plugged into the telly. Did you know >>> iTunes can use it as speakers? There's a funny story about how I discovered >>> this. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Wayland. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Colchester mailing list >>> Colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk >>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/colchester >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Colchester mailing list >> Colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/colchester >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Colchester mailing list > Colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/colchester -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wayland at sothcott.co.uk Mon May 1 13:05:49 2017 From: wayland at sothcott.co.uk (Wayland Sothcott) Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 13:05:49 -0000 Subject: [Colchester] Linux Mint 18 on main computer In-Reply-To: References: <360765ee-cc04-e076-593c-21c3beed86b4@sothcott.co.uk> <9870a909-3dc0-7ed9-926d-aa3e4713404f@tiscali.co.uk> Message-ID: <39e4c865-c659-e16d-a7d5-0b73ede8a420@sothcott.co.uk> I've got a lot of system in MS Access which the users like. Being stuck on Windows because of this. Recommend something better if you can. On 01/05/17 14:01, Chris Pritchard via Colchester wrote: > Why access though, it's basically depreciated! > > Chris > > On 1 May 2017 14:00, "Wayland Sothcott via Colchester" > > > wrote: > > Tony, > > That's excellent. > > I find the biggest problem is the particular applications I need > to use. A small one which has no alternative is MikroTik's > winbox.exe but that works beautifully under WINE. I stole the > fonts from the WIndows font directory and pasted them into the > .fonts on Linux which made it look a lot better. > > The other application is MS Access. There just seems to be no way > to either run this on Linux or rewrite the frontend in anything on > Linux. Yes I am already using MySQL back end on Linux. So I > installed Windows XP in a VirtualBox and ran it in there. Since > the VirtualBox has networking the MS Access database front end is > able to use the existing MySQL database. > > If I could get a version of MS Access to run in WINE I would be > very happy. > > If I could find an open source cross platform rapid application > development environment I would be even happier. I tried install > Free Pascal but it was such a dogs dinner I had to format my hard > drive. > > Wayland. > > > On 01/05/17 13:41, Tony via Colchester wrote: > > On this desk top I have LXLE. I liked the early versions but > think it is losing direction a bit with a few annoyances. I > have Peppermint on one laptop and another laptop with Manjaro > on. I don't have anything with Windoze. If I can't do it > with Linux then it isn't worth doing :) (although I find I can > do everything I need with Linux). > > Tried Mint but didn't like it. I prefer lighter distros that > run faster on my older equipment. > > Tony > > On 01/05/17 13:07, Wayland Sothcott via Colchester wrote: > > Hello LUG, > > What distro of Linux are you using? > > On this laptop (HP EliteBook 8440p) I'm enjoying Linux > Mint 18 MATE' desktop (that's mat-tay not mate). > > I've had to solve a number of issues to ditch Windows, I > can help you solve yours. I still have Windows 7 on my > desktop machine. It's important that I have the choice. > > My Raspberry PI is running Kodi and plugged into the > telly. Did you know iTunes can use it as speakers? 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