[frgeek-michiana] Re: OO.org front end to relational database engines
- From: John Billings <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:10:32 -0600
We use Open Office with MySQL here at T4T. I have some notes on how to
configure it with Red Hat 9, haven't done it with Fedora yet but
it's probably the same. The how to basically tells you everything. You
have to be sure to configure your packages with the right flags and
everything. I'll put them in the public directory.
K12LTSP still seems to be in love with Fedora, right? I've got K12 4.0
running at home. It's fine but I don't use apt though, there just don't seem to
be enough pacakages and mirrors. I just install most packages from source.
John GNUBIE
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:20:23AM -0500, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hot damn! OpenOffice serves as a front end to relational database engines
> thru ODBC. I've tried a number of times to set up useful databases in OO.
> The databases were very limited because none of them were relational.
> Apparently it can be done. I think Mike has messed around with Access as
> front end to open source databases via ODBC. The example below uses MySQL.
> I got the link from the K12LTSP list.
>
> http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL9.pdf
>
> btw, it appears that enough sysadmins are frustrated with Fedora that there
> is a growing movement to Whitebox Linux among big shop/big network K12LTSP
> users. Heck, if they want stability, they could just adopt Debian or
> Slackware.
>
> >What is the goal for White Box Linux?
> >
> >To provide an unencumbered RPM based Linux distribution that retains
> >enough compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow easy upgrades and to
> >retain compatibility with their Errata srpms. Being based off of RHEL3
> >means that a machine should be able to avoid the upgrade treadmill until
> >Oct 2008 since RHEL promises Errata availability for five years from date
> >of initial release and RHEL3 shipped in Oct 2003.
> >
> >Or more briefly, to fill the gap between Fedora and RHEL.
>
> http://whiteboxlinux.org/
>
> Tom
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