on 11/28/2007 1:28 PM William L. Maltby spake the following:
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:29 -0800, Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
On Nov 27, 2007 3:26 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
$ rpm -q AdobeReader_enu AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386
I don't know about others, but this one works fine for me.
I don't call this a real application as they don't support anything you don't pay for.
E.g., AR 8.0 (?) is available for Windows and has been for months, now, but not for Linux.
The Adobe Flash Player for (32-bit) browsers on Linux also works, most of the time, but it, too, is a "free" application, which means Adobe doesn't provide support for it, either.
Looks like other folks have given responses I might have used. I will only add that a piece of software that does what I want in a certain context and has appropriate scope for my needs would qualify as an application regardless of other considerations. It may not be the best or meet everyones needs, but ...
I always thought that the OS was the base system to provide a place to do some work, and applications are the tools that actually are used in doing such work. Like a woodworkers shop and the saws and other tools inside said shop.