RedHat built-in applications

RedHat/CentOS Linux comes with a wide variety of pre-installed applications, which will be found locally on all machines. A subset of these that we know to be useful are (and let us know if you find others on the system which should be included in this summary list):

• vi: A standard UNIX text editor.

• emacs: A powerful text editor.

• tex/latex: A standard text processing system.

• evince/kghostview: Packages for viewing PostScript files (and more)

• xfig: A package for making diagrams. Particularly useful for making large format posters.

• convert: command from the ImageMagick package that allows you to convert images from one format to another.

• pine: A text-based powerful email client

• kmail: A graphical email client for the KDE window system.

• gcalctool: An X11-based calculator.