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 at 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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!