Popular Free Linux Software Programs Explode the Popularity of Linux
The demand for Linux professionals that know how to use Linux - and know how to run Linux commands to do Linux system administration tasks - is growing every day!
Linux commands are used to administer Linux server systems - and they're also used on Linux desktop systems that are used to
run free Linux software programs - that are run by millions of people every day!
Linux Application Software Programs
In the same way as Microsoft has the Office Suite of programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and other programs) for Windows desktop systems, Linux has the Open Office Suite of programs for Linux desktop systems.
Notice the word "Open" in "Open Office Suite" - more on this coming up!
The Open Office Suite of programs has been carefully developed and fully tested over a long period of over 20 years and it's free - yes, free!
Millions of people all over the world use the Open Office suite of programs every day to do word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, database, and other office productivity tasks.
To get an idea of how popular this Linux software is: the Open Office suite has been it downloaded over 40 million times - and the estimated number of users is much higher!
Here are some of the programs in the Open Office Suite:
Writer - a word processing program, like Word
Calc - a spreadsheet program, like Excel
Impress - a presentation program, like PowerPoint
Draw - a graphics program, far superior to Paint
Base - a database program, like Access
If you can run programs like Word and Excel, you'll be very surprised by how incredibly similar all Open Office programs are to the Microsoft Office Programs - and did I mention that Open Office is Free?
You can find out lots more about the Open Office Suite at:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Open Office is FREE and also runs on ANY Windows system!
In addition to the Open Office Suite of programs, there are thousands of Linux software programs used to do things like:
- listen to music and manage your audio files
- manage and edit your photographs and other graphics files
- communicate over the Internet, such as chat by using instant messaging
- browse the Internet to find information and download programs and data files
- send and receive email, including attachments such as audio files and video files
- create and edit music with recording software, such as midi software
and there are lots and lots of other free Linux software programs!
Linux Training Tips: Open Office Org (the openoffice.org web site) is often abbreviated as OOo and sometimes the OOo abbreviation is also used to refer to the Open Office Suite of programs.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Linux commands are used to do Linux system administration and manage all of these millions of Linux desktop / workstation systems!
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