mysql? - where to start?

[Hal Burgiss]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:31:49PM +0800, HermanAA wrote:
> 
> A niece has to fill-out forms with all numbers (lines/ columns, vertical
> added up, hor. added up).
> Tax-forms I understand, for different clients.
> She has type-writer experience only.
> She bought a computer to do this. She has no Windows/Linux experience.
>  (333 MHz CPU, 512MB mem, Windows-XP working. My old IDE hard-drives
> found a new home)
> 
> Until now a word-processor is used for typing the form (daughter doing
> the donkey-work).
> 
> I am sure this can be done well in Linux.
>  (I am welcome to install Linux)

If you are wanting to use Ubuntu, I'd go back to at least 8.04. 9.04 could be
a miserable experience with so little RAM. 
 
-- 
Hal