Equivalents Table: Networking

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Web browser
  1. Internet Explorer
  2. Netscape / Mozilla
  3. Opera [Prop]
  4. Firefox
  1. Mozilla / Firefox
  2. Galeon.
  3. Konqueror.
  4. Opera. [Prop]
  5. Nautilus.
  6. Epiphany.
  7. Links. (with "-g" key).
  8. Dillo.
Email client
  1. Outlook Express
  2. Netscape / Mozilla / Thunderbird
  3. Eudora
  4. Opera
  1. Evolution.
  2. Netscape / Mozilla / Thunderbird
  3. Kmail.
  4. Opera.
FTP clients
  1. Bullet Proof FTP
  2. CuteFTP
  3. WSFTP
  4. SmartFTP
  1. FileZilla
  2. Gftp.
  3. Konqueror.
  4. KBear.
IRC clients
  1. Mirc
  2. Klient
  3. VIRC
  4. Xircon
  5. Pirch
  6. XChat
  1. XChat.
  2. KVirc.
  3. Ksirc.
  4. Sirc.
  5. PJIRC.
  6. IRSSI.
Instant Messaging clients
  1. ICQ Lite, ICQ Corp
  2. MSN
  3. AIM# Yahoo
  4. Trillian ICQ
  5. Miranda
  6. Gaim
  1. Gaim. (Nearly all IM protocols)
  2. Kopete.
  3. GnomeICU (ICQ).
  4. Everybuddy.
  5. Simple Instant Messenger.
  6. AIM.
Video/audio conference
  1. NetMeeting
  1. GnomeMeeting.
  2. vat/vic/wb.
  3. rat/wbd/nte.
  4. NeVoT.
  5. IVS.
Firewall (packet filtering)
  1. BlackICE
  2. ATGuard
  3. ZoneAlarm
  4. Agnitum Outpost Firewall
  5. WinRoute Pro
  6. Norton Internet Security
  7. Kerio Personal Firewall
iptables or more outdated ipchains front ends:
  1. Kmyfirewall.
  2. Easy Firewall Generator.
  3. Firewall Builder.
  4. Shorewall.
  5. Guarddog.
  6. FireStarter.
  7. Smoothwall. [Prop]
  8. IPCop.
  9. Zorp.
Peer-to-peer clients / servers / file sharing (p2p)
  1. Morpheus (Gnutella)
  2. WinMX
  3. Napster
  4. KaZaA (Fasttrack)
  5. eDonkey [Prop]
  6. eMule
  7. Bittorrent
  8. SoulSeek
  9. Direct Connect
  1. Mldonkey.
  2. LimeWire. / Gtk-Gnutella. / Qtella / Mutella
  3. eDonkey. (eDonkey) [Prop]
  4. Gift client / server / fasttrack plugin
  5. Freenet. (fully anonymous p2p)
  6. GNUnet.
  7. Bittorrent.
  8. Azureus (Bittorrent client)
  9. Direct Connect.
  10. QuickDC.(Direct Connect).
Remote management
  1. VNC# Virtual Network Computing
  2. Remote Administrator (Radmin) [Prop]
  3. Remote Assistance [Prop]
  4. Symantec pcAnywhere [Prop]
  5. Windows Terminal Server [Prop]
  6. GoToMyPC [Prop]
  7. Bo2k and other trojans
  1. VNC Virtual Network Computing.
  2. ssh.
  3. Remote management is built-in in XFree86.
  4. Rdesktop Client.
  5. rsh / rlogin.
  6. telnet.
  7. KDE Universal Remote Desktop.
Work with ssh
  1. Putty
  2. Irlex
  3. cygwin + ssh
  1. ssh / openssh
  2. Kssh
  3. GTelnet
Sharing data/files Windows shares
  1. NFS.
  2. Samba.
  3. Samba-TNG.
  4. FTP.
Windows Domain, Active Directory
  1. Samba.
  2. LDAP.
  3. yp.
Viewing Windows-network Network neighborhood
  1. Samba.
  2. KDE Lan Browser# lisa
  3. LinNeighborhood.
  4. xSMBrowser.
  5. Komba2.
  6. Konqueror.
Distributed computing
  1. United Devices.
  2. Seti @ Home.
  3. Folding @ Home.
  4. Genome @ Home.
  1. Distributed.net.
  2. Seti @ Home.
  3. Folding @ Home.
  4. Genome @ Home.
  5. D2ol.
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