Introduction

I envy the fine, new adventure that you are about to embark on! Red Hat Linux 6 is not your father's Unix: the interface is visual, user-friendly, and completely customizable to the way you like to work.

Powerful personal productivity applications—such as Gnomecard, Gnotepad+, and the Gnumeric spreadsheet—ship with Red Hat Linux 6 and are ready to run. Familiar programs such as the Netscape Communicator suite and Corel WordPerfect can be used to browse the Web, send and receive email, and create word-processing documents. And there is so much more! To take just one example, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (affectionately called the "Gimp") ships with Red Hat Linux 6. The Gimp most certainly gives Adobe's expensive program Photoshop ...

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