Chapter 7. Gnome Applications

The Gnome desktop that ships with Red Hat Linux 6 comes with a suite of preinstalled personal productivity applications. These include:

  • Calendar, a personal appointment organizer

  • GnomeCard, a contact manager

  • Gnotepad+, a text editor

  • Gnumeric, a spreadsheet program

  • GTimeTracker, a project management tool

In this chapter, I'll show you how to use these applications.

You might want to bear in mind that although these applications are both very powerful and free—good things, indeed!—they are not commercially produced or supported. As a consequence, although these applications are stable, not all of their components are fully functional.

Red Hat Linux 6 ships with many desktop applications. This chapter discusses the following ...

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