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<p>I've got a lot of system in MS Access which the users like. Being
stuck on Windows because of this.</p>
<p>Recommend something better if you can.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/05/17 14:01, Chris Pritchard via
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<div dir="auto">Why access though, it's basically depreciated!
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 May 2017 14:00, "Wayland Sothcott
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That's excellent.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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If I could get a version of MS Access to run in WINE I would
be very happy.<br>
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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.<br>
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Wayland.<br>
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On 01/05/17 13:41, Tony via Colchester wrote:<br>
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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).<br>
<br>
Tried Mint but didn't like it. I prefer lighter distros
that run faster on my older equipment.<br>
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Tony<br>
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Hello LUG,<br>
<br>
What distro of Linux are you using?<br>
<br>
On this laptop (HP EliteBook 8440p) I'm enjoying Linux
Mint 18 MATE' desktop (that's mat-tay not mate).<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Wayland.<br>
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