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| Linux is an operating system (OS), like | | | | |
| Windows. | | | | The Windows Office Suite and the Linux |
| | | | OpenOffice Suite |
| Think of there being two general types of | | | | |
| software: operating system software and | | | | Windows has a popular and common collection |
| "other" software. | | | | of programs named the Office suite. The |
| | | | Office suite consists of several programs, |
| The "other" software consists of several | | | | such as a word processing program called |
| types of software programs, including: | | | | Word, a spreadsheet program named Excel and a |
| application software programs (like word | | | | presentation program named PowerPoint. |
| processors, spreadsheets and email programs), | | | | |
| utility software programs and server | | | | Linux also has a popular and common suite of |
| programs. | | | | programs called OpenOffice. The word |
| | | | processor is named Write, the spreadsheet is |
| All of the "other" software runs "on top of" | | | | named Calc and the presentation program is |
| an operating system, such as Windows or | | | | named Impress. |
| Linux. | | | | |
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| You boot a computer system with operating | | | | OpenOffice suite of programs and run this |
| system software so you can run application | | | | suite of programs in Windows! |
| software programs, like a word processor, | | | | |
| spreadsheet, email, and browser. | | | | Using Windows Desktop Systems and Linux |
| | | | Desktop Systems |
| Windows and Linux Operating System (OS) | | | | |
| Functionality | | | | On a Windows computer system, you boot to a |
| | | | Windows desktop. From the desktop, you use |
| When you boot a computer with an OS, like the | | | | menus to select and run software programs and |
| Windows OS or Linux OS, the OS allows you to | | | | there are icons you can double-click on to |
| do tasks like:run application software | | | | run programs. The desktop allows you to run |
| programs, like a word processor, spreadsheet | | | | programs and organize your work. |
| or email programsave data files to your hard | | | | |
| disk, like a letter, memo or reportretrieve | | | | The same is true of Linux. You can also boot |
| data files so you can edit themsend data | | | | a computer system to a Linux desktop and use |
| files to print | | | | menus and icons to run Linux software |
| | | | programs, and organize your work. |
| Windows Software Programs and Linux Software | | | | |
| Programs | | | | Linux Tips: There are several Linux desktops |
| | | | to choose from, such as the GNOME and KDE |
| In Windows, you can run lots of different | | | | desktops. Each Linux desktop has the same |
| application software programs. There are | | | | functionality (menus, icons and |
| custom software programs and off-the-shelf | | | | organization), but has a different "look and |
| (common) software programs. These programs | | | | feel". |
| allow you to do everything from running your | | | | |
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| | | | yourself! |