Emulators Wine Wine is an application that implements the Windows Application Programming Interface (API) on top of the native X Window System that is used by the GNOME and KDE graphical environments. It’s more of a compatibility layer than an emulator, but it does allow Windows applications to run. The latest version and more information can be found at Wine’s web site at http://www.winehq.com/. Most recent release of the Wine RPM packages can be found at http://mecano.gme.usherb.ca/~vberon/wine/, and the instructions for installing Wine and troubleshooting problems that you encounter can be found within the Wine User Guide, at http://www.winehq.com/Docs/wine-user/. Summary In this chapter we’ve touched on a variety of applications installed by default in Red Hat Linux 9. In some cases, we’ve discussed how they can be extended to provide yet further functionality. In fact, there are thousands of quality applications that are available either within the Red Hat Linux distribution or via the Internet, in some cases freeware thanks to the Open Source Foundation and the GNU Project. In other cases, shareware is available at a small cost, again via the Internet. We started by covering the OpenOffice suite of applications commonly used for office productivity. We touched on a couple of Internet applications - the Mozilla browser and the GAIM Instant Messenger application - and the Evolution personal information management tool. We skipped through a number of multimedia applications, which provided various audio and graphical facilities, and took a look at some of the more essential system tools - the gedit text editor, the Nautilus file manager, the File Roller compression tool, and the VMWare emulator. There is such a wealth of functionality available that you shouldn’t have trouble finding the application you need to do the job you want - whether it’s included in the Red Hat Linux 9 distribution or out there on the Internet somewhere. We’ll cover some more applications in Chapter 13. And if there’s nothing out there that fits your requirements, you could always start off your own Open Source project. In the end, you can achieve in Linux everything that you’d expect to be able to achieve on other platforms. 160

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