I have this Knoppix compilation on a disk that does not need installing. Just run it from the disk. It is to try out Linux without committng myself at all. One of the *must-haves*,if I change, is a Relational Database. Currently I am using Lotus Approach and have it just the way I want it. So the easy way would be to keep using it with Wine. Approach loads fine and looks like it will be a goer. Trouble comes when I try to open a file. I get the message "Unhandled page fault on read access to [and references]. Do you wish to debug it?" Being a newbie refugee from Windows I don't know what this means, and whether I answer Yes or No, I get a dialog box that tells me "Exception raised." Nothing I do will get rid of it, or do anything else with it. I cannot close the Approach window either. OR is there an alternative Linux Relational Database I could try? BTW is there a Linux equivalent to Ctrl-Alt-Delete to close a recalcitrant program? Terry@nz

For databases you could try PostgresQL or MySQL, both of which normally come on the installation CDs. Regarding killing a program, if you are in an X session you can run xkill and then click on the window you want to close. Alternatively from the command line by killing the PID (process ID), eg: # ps aux | grep program this displays the PID of program, you could also use top to get this information. # kill -9 PID to completely kill it off. You could also use the graphical tops that come with KDE or Gnome.