<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Hi listers, Firstly, I read on a tweet today that it's Ubuntu's 7th birthday today. Happy birthday Ubuntu! Now for the real reason for the post. I want to create a simple database that I can distribute to others and was hoping to come up with a solution that just allowed me to distribute it as a standalone package in much the same way that MS users can with Access. I want it to run under linux. If it was cross platform, that would be even better but not essential. I do not want to be in the position of saying that you have to have a given package installed to run the database. For example, I could easily produce what I want in LibreOffice Base but would then have to assume that recipients run LibreOffice. I have googled and the only programs that appear to come close are Kexi and Firebird. Does anyone have any experiences of either or recommendations for other packages. I have played about with Kexi which runs under KDE desktop but it appears to crash with boring regularity. (That could be because I favour the Gnome desktop.) As I said, the proposed database is simple and does not necessarily have to be relational although it will contain many records. I want to keep records of magazine articles from a variety of publications but can't find a bespoke package that fits what I want to do. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. TIA Bob. </div> </body> </html>