Table 3 2   Example bridging applications
Application used in Windows
Linux/Open Source equivalent 
Internet Explorer
Mozilla.org/FireFox
Outlook (Express)
Mozilla.org/Thunderbird
MS Office Word
OpenOffice.org
a
 Writer
MS Office Excel
OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet
MS Office Powerpoint
OpenOffice.org Impress
Paint Shop Pro
The GIMP
b
Messenger Client (MSN,Yahoo,ICQ,...)
GAIM
c
a. http://www.openoffice.org
b. http://www.gimp.org
c. http://gaim.sourceforge.net
3.2.2  Functionally equivalent utility applications
The designs of utility applications such as file system browsers, archivers, and 
viewers are more closely tied to the host operating system. They cannot be 
bridged in the sense that we describe for the applications listed in the previous 
section. One of the reasons Linux is considered to be approaching equivalency 
with Windows is the availability of many choices for utility applications. In many 
cases, these applications may in fact have more powerful feature sets than the 
equivalent utility applications in Windows.
Table 3 3 provides some examples of equivalent utility applications available in 
Linux.
Table 3 3   Examples of equivalent utility applications in Linux
File managers
Konqueror (KDE)
(Windows Explorer)
Nautilus (Gnome)
Archivers
Karchiver,ark (KDE)
(like WinZip)
FileRoller (Gnome)
Viewers
Konqueror, KView(KDE)
(like ACDSee)
Nautilus (Gnome)
Adobe  Acrobat  Reader  for Linux
Multimedia players
xmms, xine, RealPlayer
(like Windows Media Player)
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