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Chapter 5: Accessing and Running Applications Overview To get your work done on a computer, you use application programs. They let you create documents, crunch data, and communicate with others. As an engine for running applications, Red Hat Linux is becoming more viable every day. Not too long ago, there were only a handful of user-friendly applications available. Now there are hundreds and they re getting more powerful and friendlier all the time. This chapter describes how to get applications for Red Hat Linux and run them. Because Red Hat Linux is still, at its heart, a programmer s and network administrator s operating system, this chapter teaches you how to download applications from the Internet and to uncompress and install them. For running native Linux applications, this chapter focuses on graphical-based applications (run on an X desktop, including applications distributed over the network). Besides programs that were specifically created for (or ported to) Linux, it is possible to run applications that were intended for other operating systems. This chapter describes emulators that are available to use with Red Hat Linux for running applications created for Windows, DOS, and Macintosh operating systems. Using Red Hat Linux as an Application Platform Although operating systems are nice, people use desktop computers to run application programs. A strong case can be made for using Red Hat Linux as a server, but as a desktop system, Red Hat Linux is still a long way from challenging Microsoft s operating system dominance for several reasons: Although you can get word processing programs, spreadsheet programs, graphics programs, and almost any other type of application that you want for Linux, many of the most popular applications in each category don t run well in Linux or don t run at all. For example, the latest Microsoft Office product will not run in Linux. If your company uses Microsoft Word for word processing or Microsoft Excel for spreadsheets, you could try converting files from those applications to run in StarOffice in Red Hat Linux. However, those files won’t always convert cleanly. There are many more commercial, battle-tested applications for Microsoft Windows operating systems than there are for Linux. Because the user market is so huge for Windows systems, many software companies develop their products solely for that market. Linux applications, as a rule, are more difficult to configure and use than are many commercial Windows applications. That s the bad news. The good news is that Linux is gaining ground. You can now use Linux on your desktop to do almost everything you would want to do on a desktop computer with Windows (it s often just a bit tougher getting there). In the near term, making a case for replacing all desktop computers with Red Hat Linux is difficult, but I believe there are many good reasons to think that, in the long term, Linux will be the superior operating system for running applications. Here are some of those reasons: Many people believe that, in time, networked applications will drive the future of computing. Unlike the first Windows systems, which had their roots in the single-user, one-task-at-a-time DOS
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