[Colchester] Linux Mint 18 on main computer

[Chris Pritchard]

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.
>>>
>>>
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