This article is part 5 of an ongoing series of articles on this site comparing Apple Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" to Red Hat Linux Fedora Core 4 (FC4).  (The previous article is here.)  The point of this comparison is not to say that one OS or the other is "better" but rather to point out the differences and indicate where an artist who previously used Mac OS X 10.4 would find Linux to be easier, harder, or the same to use as the Mac.  See the introduction article for more information and links to the other articles in the series.   Although the focus of this series  is on the needs of designers, artists, and content creators, the content should be relevant to any number of Mac users or Linux users.

In general, there are a lot of things that a computer user needs to do with the disk volumes attached to (or part of) their computer system.  For new drives, it is necessary to partition and format them.  For existing drives, removing partitions, erasing them, re-sizing them, checking them for errors, and backing them up are all concerns.  For a drive experiencing problems, file recovery and error correction are the main issues.  For CDs and DVDs, burning data to recordable media is an issue.

This article is part 4 of an ongoing series of articles on this site comparing Apple Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" to Red Hat Linux Fedora Core 4 (FC4).  (The previous article is here.)  The point of this comparison is not to say that one OS or the other is "better" but rather to point out the differences and indicate where an artist who previously used Mac OS X 10.4 would find Linux to be easier, harder, or the same to use as the Mac.  See the introduction article for more information and links to the other articles in the series.   Although the focus of this series  is on the needs of designers, artists, and content creators, the content should be relevant to any number of Mac users or Linux users.

This time around we'll look at the bundled email clients.  In the case of OS X, the bundled client is Apple's "Mail" software.  On Red Hat, it's Ximian Evolution.  Because there is a fair amount of overlap between the two applications, I'm not going to go through a blow-by-excruciating-blow discussion of their functionality which is identical.  Instead, I'll try to focus on the differences. 

AOpen has announced its new "Pandora" mini PC.  This ultra-small-form-factor PC should look very familiar to anyone who recognizes Apple's Mac Mini:

 
   
Separated at Birth? AOpen's Pandora (left) and Apple's Mac Mini (right)

This time around we'll examine:

    * Calculator
    * Music players
    * PDF Viewing

Where appropriate, we'll compare and contrast the functionality provided in Tiger and FC4.