Apps :: Open Source Recipe Software?

I'm doing a series of articles to be published in a local newspaper on "Hand Me Down Computers".

The scope of the articles will be how to set up and use older hardware in functional ways at minmal expense.

One of the articles I intend to do would feature the use of an older laptop as a basic "kitchen accessory" with wireless networking capability for lightweight browsing and web seaches, keeping a recipe database, and perhaps even playing a favorite selection of music while working in the kitchen.

I've found a decent selection of "Freeware" recipe software that runs on Windows, but have found absolutely nothing that will run on a LINUX based machine. With the end of 'offical support' for Win98, I would really rather not present this project based on a Win9x platform, which, in the types of hardware this series would feature, would be the only other option. I am thinking a lightweight Debian Based LINUX, like DSL, which can be installed from a Live CD, would be the preferred platform to mount this project on. I've already laid all the groundwork, using a Compaq 1620 Laptop, but I just can't seem to find any Recipe software (database) that runs under LINUX, and more specificly, that can be run using DSL.

So how about it ?

Can anyone point me towards any Open Source Software that would be suitable for this project?

DaveJ45

Try your search on http://google.com/linux
There are more than a few options

Thanks mikshaw for the pointer.

The search is complicated, since the computer world has adopted totally different meanings for the terms 'cookbook' and 'recipe', which results in most searches of this nature giving results for what would/should actually be considered tutorials, howtos, and scripting...

But, thanks to your advice, I did find a couple that look like they might be usable, yet simple enough to function on minimal hardware!

DaveJ45

I think KJots would work. Each entry in a "book" (basically a new database) into it creates a searchable table of contents, you can export stuff as html or text and import whatever you need from wherever, with all the normal printing abilities. It's a KDE application, but I think that I could make an extension for it for DSL if you want, probably just need to add the kdelibs..

Anyhow give it a try, maybe it'll work for what you need. If you like it and want an extension for it make a request or PM me, I'm sure all sorts of folk round here would be happy to help if we can

I had tried to find some recipe programs too but I couldn't get them to run in DSL. I found these I think on sourceforge:

gourmet_0.8.5.11.tar.gz
krecipes-0.9.1.tar.gz
mango-0.27.tar.bz2

If you have qt or python you might get these to run.

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