Linux and Open Source... What is still missing?

[John Dangler]

peripheral devices have always been a bit of a headache for me in
different distro's... printers, webcams, scanners, etc.


On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 22:37 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Michael T. Richter
> <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2006-25-10 at 20:45 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: 
>         > > The BIGGEST thing of all though I think is that there's no MS Access
>         > > equivalent in any office suite (or outside of any office suite).   The
>         > > Kexi project is going so slow that I wonder if it's actually moving..
>         > Take a look at Glom (it's in the archive).
>         
>         Am I tripping when I look at OpenOffice.org2's Base product
>         and see Access?
> 
> The problem with OpenOffice.org Database is Microsoft's Access's SQL
> syntax isn't totally compatible, the syntax where a bit complicated in
> hsql than access's. But, so far it's really good!! It only needs some
> documentation and _examples_. 
> 
> Joel