Survey: What Linux needs now (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

Joe Barr looks at what Linux needs (according to a survey he ran) on NewsForge. "My biggest surprise came when I thought about what is not on the list. The great anti-Linux mantra is gone. It has disappeared. Not one of the more than 60 responses mentioned a need for easier installation of the operating system. Kudos to everyone who helped to make that happen."

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Survey: What Linux needs now (NewsForge)

Posted Jul 16, 2003 22:41 UTC (Wed) by ttkline (guest, #12979) [Link]

My company could switch to Linux now if it had a replacement for ACT & a good graphical environment for SQL, which allowed complete GUI usage including a graphical data entry screen

Survey: What Linux needs now (NewsForge)

Posted Jul 20, 2003 3:27 UTC (Sun) by neosource.com.au (guest, #13056) [Link]

There is a graphical SQL application available for Linux using KDE. It's called Knoda, available at http://www.knoda.org .. I'm currently using it as a replacement for MS Access. Python scripting has just been introduced into it (testing stage, not stable yet), and it has forms/reports etc. It can't do everything though but it's good for data entry/queries etc and has a nice GUI as it uses Qt.

And it's open source of course, though there are a couple others out there, one costs around $79 or something but I forget the name, will post it here if I remember..

I've been running Linux on my desktop for around 3-4 months now and yes it can be a challenge finding replacement applications, but it's a worthy challenge...

Survey: What Linux needs now (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 22, 2003 23:44 UTC (Mon) by gerpsych (guest, #15329) [Link]

Knoda has come on leaps and bounds. With python scripting it is now very powerful. The competitor is Rekall (at $70) but there is little or no extra power for that extra money