last update: 19.04.03.
| 19.04.03: Many of various corrections and additions. Thanks to everybody who contributed :). 15.03.03: New section: "Emulators". 7.03.03: This page is released under the GNU FDL! |
One of the largest difficulties in migrating away from Windows to Linux is the lack of comparable software. Newbies usually search for analogs of Windows software for Linux, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often don't know too much about Windows :). This list of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux is based on our own experience and on the information from the visitors of this page (thanks!).
This table is not a static - new programs can be added both to left and to right sides, and it is not fact that right column will be filled immediately. In the future we plan to migrate this table to the PHP/MySQL engine, so visitors could add the program themselves, vote for analogs, add comments, etc.
If you want to add the program in table, send mail to xoid26@linux-online.ru with the name of the program, the OS, the descript-xion (the purpose of the program, etc), and the link to official site of this program (if you know it). All commentaries, remarks, corrections, offers and bugreports are always welcome - send it all to xoid26@linux-online.ru.
Notes:
1) By default all Linux programs in this table are free as in freedom. (Definitions of Free Software: FSF and Debian). Proprietary software for Linux is marked with the sign [Prop]. Non-free software (open source or relatively free, but have certain restrictive limits) is marked with the sign [NF].
2) If there is nothing in the field of the table, except "???" - the authors of the table do not know what to place there.
3) If the sign (???) stands after the name of the program - the authors of the table are not sure about this program.
The important ideological difference between Windows and Linux:
The majority of the Windows programs are made on principle "all-in-one" (each developer adds everything to his or her product). In the same way, this principle is called the "Windows-way".
The ideology of UNIX/Linux - one component or one program must execute only one task, but execute it well. ("UNIX-way"). The programs under Linux can be thought of as being like the LEGO building blocks. (for instance, if there is a program for spell checking, it can be used with the text editor or email client; or if there is the powerful command-line program for files downloading, it is simple to write the graphic interface (Front-end) for it, etc).
This principle is very important and it is necessary to know it while searching for analogs of Windows-programs in Linux :).
Attention! There may be many mistakes and bugs in the table!! (report about the bugs).
Places where you can get Linux software:
FreshMeat.net | SourceForge.net - Two biggest portals. You can find everything you want!!
LinuxApps.com | IceWalkers.com | Linux.Tucows.com - I like these catalogs.
Download.com / Linux | LinuxSoftware.org | FileWatcher.org | LinuxArchives.com - other catalogs.
Programs / packages / libraries search systems: RPMseek.org | Tuxfinder.com | RPMfind.net
Programs and games for Windows, that can be run under Wine/WineX:
1) Games for Windows, that can be run under WineX (the information from the official Transgaming site). This is a search form, and this is a full list of games (very big!).
2) The biggest catalog of Windows apps, running under Wine. The database of Codeweavers contains information about ~1000 applications, and the catalog is structured and has a navigation system.
The Sections:
1) Networking.
2) Work with files.
3) Desktop / System software.
4) Multimedia:
4.1) Audio / CD.
4.2) Graphics.
4.3) Video and other.
5) Office/business.
6) Games.
7) Programming and development.
8) Server software.
9) Scientific and special programs.
10) Emulators.
11) Other / Humour :).
| Descript-xion of the program, executed task | Windows | Linux |
| 1) Networking. | ||
| Web browser | Internet Explorer, Netscape / Mozilla for Windows, Opera [Prop], Phoenix for Windows, ... | 1) Netscape / Mozilla. 2) Galeon. 3) Konqueror. 4) Opera. [Prop] 5) Phoenix. 6) Nautilus. 7) Epiphany. 8) Links. (with "-g" key). 9) Dillo. (Russian language patches - here). |
| Console web browser | Lynx for Windows, links for Windows | 1) Links. 2) ELinks. 3) Lynx. 4) w3m. 5) Xemacs + w3. |
| Email client | Outlook Express, Netscape / Mozilla for Windows, The Bat, Eudora, Becky, Datula, Sylpheed for Windows | 1) Evolution. 2) Netscape / Mozilla messenger. 3) Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws. 4) Kmail. 5) Gnus. 6) Balsa. 7) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 8) Arrow. 9) Gnumail. 10) Althea. 11) Liamail. 12) Aethera. |
| Email client / PIM in MS Outlook style | Outlook | 1) Evolution. 2) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 3) Aethera. 4) Sylpheed. 5) Sylpheed-claws. |
| Email client in The Bat style | The Bat | 1) Sylpheed. 2) Sylpheed-claws. 3) Kmail. 4) Gnus. 5) Balsa. |
| Console email client | Mutt for Windows [de], Pine for Windows, Pegasus | 1) Pine. [NF] 2) Mutt. 3) Gnus. 4) Elm. 5) Xemacs. |
| News reader | Xnews, Outlook, Netscape / Mozilla | 1) Knode. 2) Pan. 3) NewsReader. 4) Netscape / Mozilla. 5) Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws. Console: 6) Pine. [NF] 7) Mutt. 8) Gnus. 9) tin. 10) slrn. 11) Xemacs. |
| Files downloading | Flashget, Go!zilla, Reget, Getright, Wget for Windows, ... | 1) Downloader for X. 2) Caitoo (former Kget). 3) Prozilla. 4) Wget (console, standard). 5) GUI for Wget: Kmago, Gnome Transfer Manager, QTget, Xget, ... 6) Aria. 7) Axel. 8) Download Accelerator Plus. 9) GetLeft. 10) Lftp. |
| Sites downloading | Teleport Pro, Httrack, ... | 1) Httrack. 2) WWW Offline Explorer. 3) Wget (console, standard). GUI: Kmago, QTget, Xget, ... 4) Downloader for X. 5) Pavuk. 6) XSiteCopy. 7) GetLeft. 8) Curl (console). |
| FTP-clients | Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP, WSFTP, ... | 1) Gftp. 2) Konqueror. 3) Dpsftp. 4) KBear. 5) IglooFTP. [Prop] 6) Nftp. 7) Wxftp. 8) AxyFTP. 9) mc. (cd ftp://...) |
| Console FTP-clients | FTP in Far, ftp.exe | 1) Ncftp. 2) Lftp. 3) Avfs. (From any program: /#ftp:...) |
| IRC-clients | Mirc, Klient, VIRC, Xircon, Pirch, XChat for Windows | 1) Xchat. 2) KVirc. 3) Irssi. 4) BitchX. 5) Ksirc. 6) Epic. 7) Sirc. |
| Local network chat clients without server | QuickChat | 1) talk (console), ktalk. 2) Echat. 3) write, wall (chat between users of one machine) |
| Local messaging with Windows machines | WinPopUp | smbclient (console). GUI: 1) LinPopUp. 2) Kpopup. 3) Kopete. |
| Instant Messaging clients | ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ... Trillian ICQ (freeware, can replace all common IM clients), Miranda | 1) Licq (ICQ). 2) Centericq (ICQ, console). 3) Alicq (ICQ). 4) Micq (ICQ). 5) GnomeICU (ICQ). 6) Gaim. (Supports nearly all IM protocols) 7) Kopete. 8) Everybuddy. 9) Simple Instant Messenger. 10) Imici Messenger. 11) Ickle (ICQ). 12) aMSN (MSN). 13) Kmerlin (MSN). 14) Kicq (ICQ). 15) YSM. (ICQ, console). 16) kxicq. 17) Yahoo Messenger for Unix. 18) Kmess (MSN). |
| Jabber IM clients | JAJC, Tkabber (+activestate tcl), Psi, Exodus, WinJab, myJabber, RhymBox, Rival, Skabber, TipicIM, Vista, Yabber, Miranda | 1) Tkabber. 2) Gabber. 3) Psi. 4) Gaim. |
| Monitoring sites and mailboxes, displaying news headlines or full articles | WatzNew | 1) Web Secretary. 2) Knewsticker & korn. 3) Mozilla (???). 4) watch -n seconds lynx -dump |
| Video/audio conference | NetMeeting | 1) GnomeMeeting. 2) vat/vic/wb. 3) rat/wbd/nte. 4) NeVoT. 5) IVS. |
| Voice communication | Speak Freely | 1) Speak Freely for Unix. 2) TeamSpeak. |
| Firewall (packet filtering) | BlackICE, ATGuard, ZoneAlarm, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, WinRoute Pro, Norton Internet Security, Sygate Personal Firewall PRO, ... | iptables or more outdated ipchains (console, standard). Front ends: 1) Kmyfirewall. 2) Easy Firewall Generator. 3) Firewall Builder. 4) Shorewall. 5) Guarddog. 6) FireStarter. 7) Smoothwall. [Prop] 8) IPCop. 9) Zorp. |
| IDS (Intrusion Detection System) | 1) BlackICE 2) Agnitum Outpost Firewall 3) Tripwire [prop] | 1) Snort. 2) Portsentry / Hostsentry / Logsentry. 3) Tripwire [GPL]. 4) Tripwall. 5) AIDE. 6) ViperDB. 7) Integrit. |
| Visual route | VisualRoute [Prop] | 1) Xtraceroute. 2) VisualRoute for Linux. [Prop] 3) Mtr. 4) Geotrace. |
| Content filtering | Proxomitron, ATGuard, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, Privoxy, MS ISA server, ... | 1) DansGuardian. 2) Squid. 3) Squidguard. 4) Privoxy. 5) JunkBuster. 6) Zorp. 7) Fork. 8) Redirector. |
| Traffic control / shaping | WinRoute Pro, ... | 1) IP Relay. 2) ?q (from iproute2 package). 3) tc (from iproute2 package). 4) LARTC. |
| Traffic accounting | Netstat, Tmeter, ... | 1) Tcp4me. 2) Getstatd. 3) Ipacct. 4) Ipac-ng. 5) Ipaudit. 6) Lanbilling. 7) SARG (full Squid traffic). 8) Talinux. 9) NetUP UserTrafManager. 10) MRTG. 11) NetTop. |
| Peer-to-peer clients / servers, file sharing | Morpheus (Gnutella), WinMX, Napster, KaZaA (Fasttrack), eDonkey [Prop], eMule, TheCircle, Bittorrent, SoulSeek | 1) LimeWire for Linux. (Gnutella) 2) Lopster. (OpenNAP) 3) Gnapster. (OpenNAP) 4) Mldonkey. (eDonkey) 5) eDonkey for Linux. (eDonkey) [Prop] 6) cDonkey. (eDonkey) 7) Gift client / server (Fasttrack) 8) ed2k_gui. 9) Gtk-Gnutella. (Gnutella) 10) Qtella. (Gnutella) 11) Mutella. (Gnutella, console) 12) TheCircle. 13) Freenet. 14) GNUnet. 15) Lmule. (eDonkey) 16) Bittorrent. 17) PySoulSeek. 18) Loophole. (WinMX) [Prop] |
| "Hotline" p2p protocol clients / servers | ??? | Clients: 1) Gtkhx. 2) Fidelio. 3) GHX. [Prop] Servers: 1) Synapse. 2) HSX. |
| Program for working with sound modem with many functions - from answerback and AON to fax device | Venta Fax, PrimaFax | 1) Gfax. (???) 2) PrimaFax for Linux. [Prop, 99$] 3) mgetty + voice + sendfax. 4) vgetty. |
| Work with faxes | WinFax | 1) HylaFax. 2) Fax2Send. [Prop] 3) Efax. |
| Dialup | Vdialer, et?/TD> | 1) Kppp. 2) X-isp. 3) wvdial. (Front ends: X-wvdial, kvdial, gtkdial). 4) Gppp. 5) Kinternet. 6) Rp3. 7) pppconfig + pon + poff. |
| FTN editor | Golded | 1) Golded. 2) Golded+. 3) Msged. 4) Qded. |
| FTN tosser | FastEcho, hpt | 1) hpt. 2) CrashEcho. 3) Qecho. 4) CrashMail II. 5) Fidogate - gate to news. 6) ifmail - gate to news. |
| FTN mailer | SF-Mail, T-Mail | 1) ifcico. 2) qico. 3) Bforce. 4) Binkd. |
| Remote management | VNC, Remote Administrator, Remote Assistance, Symantec pcAnywhere, Windows Terminal Server, Rdesktop, Radmin | 1) VNC. 2) ssh / openssh. 3) Remote management is built-in in XFree86. 4) Rdesktop Client. 5) rsh / rlogin. 6) telnet. 7) Gtelnet. |
| 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) Rdesktop [Prop] 7) Radmin [Prop] 8) PC-Duo [Prop] 9) Huey PC Remote Control (only for NT) [Prop] 10) Timbuktu Pro [Prop] 11) LapLink [Prop] 12) GoToMyPC [Prop] 13) Bo2k and other trojans | 1) VNC, Virtual Network Computing. 2) ssh / openssh. 3) Remote management is built-in in XFree86. 4) Rdesktop Client. 5) rsh / rlogin. 6) telnet. 7) Gtelnet. |
| Transmission of the files on modem | HyperTerminal, Terminate, etc | 1) Minicom + lrzcz + Kermit. 2) Msterm. 3) Xtel. 4) uucp. 5) lrzsz + cu from uucp. |
| Work with ssh | Putty, Irlex, cygwin + ssh | 1) Kssh. 2) ssh / openssh. 3) GTelnet. (Telnet, SSH, Rlogin) |
| Network monitoring tool | Dumeter, Netmedic | 1) Gkrellm. 2) Big Brother. 3) Etherape. 4) Nagios. 5) Tkined. 6) MRTG. 7) Rrdtool. 8) PIKT. 9) Autostatus. 10) bcnu. 11) mon. 12) Sysmon. 13) Spong. 14) SNIPS. 15) iptraf (console). 16) Ksysguard. 17) OpenNMS. 18) tcpdump. |
| Network maintance tool | HP OpenView, MS SMS, Tivoli | 1) HP OpenView agents for Linux. [Prop] 2) Big Brother. 3) Cheops. 4) Tkined. 5) OpenNMS. |
| Protocols analysing, sniffing | Sniffer Pro, EtherPeek (TokenPeek, AiroPeek), Windump, Ethereal, MS Network Monitor, Iris, Lan Explorer, NetSniffer, Snort, ... | 1) Ethereal. 2) Tcpdump. 3) Etherape. 4) Ntop. 5) ipxdump. (+ipxparse for parsing) 6) Snort. |
| Security scanner | ShadowScan, ISS, Retina, Internet Scanner | 1) Nessus. 2) Nmap. |
| Routing | MS RRAS | 1) iproute2 + iptables. 2) GateD. [Prop] 3) GNU Zebra. |
| Utilites and libraries for Ethernet/IP testing | lcrzo | lcrzo |
| IP-telephony | Buddyphone [Prop], Cisco SoftPhone | 1) GNU Bayonne. 2) Openh323. 3) OpenPhone. 4) tkPhone. 5) NauPhone. |
| 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. |
| ADSL | - | 1) rp-pppoe. 2) Pptp client. |
| Distributed computing | All projects. 1) United Devices. 2) Seti @ Home. 3) Foling @ Home. 4) Genome @ Home. | All projects. 1) Distributed.net. 2) Seti @ Home. 3) Foling @ Home. 4) Genome @ Home. * Some versions for Linux run only in console mode. |
| IPSEC protocol | - | FreeSWAN. |
| 2) Work with files. | ||
| File manager in FAR and NC style | FAR, Norton Commander, etc | 1) Midnight Commander. 2) X Northern Captain. 3) Deco (Demos Commander) . 4) Portos Commander. 5) Konqueror in MC style. 6) Gentoo. 7) Vfu. 8) Ytree. |
| File manager in Windows Commander style | Total Commander (former Windows Commander) | 1) Krusader. 2) Kcommander. 3) FileRunner (TCL/TK). 4) Linux Commander. 5) LinCommander. 6) Rox, Rox-Filer. 7) Emelfm. 8) Midnight Commander. |
| File manager in Windows style | Windows Explorer | 1) Konqueror. 2) Gnome-Commander. 3) Nautilus. 4) Endeavour Mark II. 5) XWC. |
| Quick viewing of local HTML documents | Internet Explorer | 1) Dillo. (Russian language patches - here). 2) Konqueror. 3) Nautilus. 4) Lynx / Links. |
| Viewing all operations with files | Filemon | Filemon for Linux. |
| Work with UDF | Roxio (former Adaptec) UDF Reader, Roxio Direct CD | Linux-UDF. |
| Work with multi session CD + recovering information from faulty multi session disks | IsoBuster | CDFS. |
| Work with compressed files | 1) WinZip 2) WinRar 3) 7-Zip | 1) Ark (kdeutils). 2) Gnozip. 3) KArchiveur. 4) Gnochive. 5) FileRoller. 6) Unace for Linux. 7) LinZip. 8) TkZip. |
| Console archivers | arj, rar, zip, ... | 1) tar, gzip, bzip2. 2) Unarc. 3) Lha. (on Japanese) 4) Infozip. 5) Arj. 6) Avfs. (The support of any archive from any program - file.zip#/...). 7) Zoo. 8) RAR for Linux. 9) CAB Extract. |
| Program for files and directories comparison | 1) Beyond Compare. 2) Araxis Merge. 3) Minimalist GNU For Windows (diff.exe) | 1) WinMerge. 2) Mgdiff. 3) diff, patch. 4) Xemacs. 5) Xdelta. (make patches for binary files) |
| 3) Desktop / System software. | ||
| Text editor | Notepad, WordPad, TextPad, ... | 1) Kedit (KDE). 2) Gedit (Gnome). 3) Gnotepad. 4) Kate (KDE). 5) KWrite (KDE). 6) Nedit. 7) Vim. 8) Xemacs. 9) Xcoral. 10) Nvi. |
| Console text editor | FAR Editor, ... | 1) Vim. 2) Emacs. 3) Nano. (It's a free implementation of pico) 4) joe. 5) Fte. 6) Jed. 7) CoolEdit. |
| Multi-purpose text and source code editor | SciTE, UltraEdit, MultiEdit, ... | 1) Kate (KDE). 2) Nedit. 3) CodeCommander. 4) SciTE. 5) Quanta Plus. 6) Vim. 7) Xemacs. 8) Mcedit (comes with mc). 9) Jed. 10) Setedit. (Turbo Vision looking style) |
| Text editor with cyrillic encodings support | Bred, Rpad32, Aditor | 1) Kate (KDE). 2) Nedit. 3) Fte (console). 4) Patched version of Midnight Commander. 5) Vim. 6) Xemacs. |
| Viewing PostScript-x | RoPS | 1) GhostView. 2) Kghostview. 3) GV. 4) GGV. |
| Viewing PDF | Adobe Acrobat Reader | 1) Acrobat Reader for Linux. [Prop] 2) Xpdf. 3) GV. 4) GGV. 5) Kghostview. |
| Creating PDF | Adobe Acrobat Distiller | 1) Any Linux WYSIWYG program -> print to file -> ps2pdf. (Here's an article about this). 2) Adobe Acrobat Distiller for Linux. [Prop] 3) PStill. [Shareware] 4) PDFLatex. 5) Xfig. 6) Ghostscript-x. 7) Tex2Pdf. 8) Reportlab. 9) GV. |
| Crypto | PGP, GnuPG + Windows Privacy Tools | 1) GnuPG (console) + GPA, KGpg, and other frontends. 2) PGP. [Prop] |
| Disc volume encryption | EFS (standard), PGP-Disk, BestCrypt, Private Disk Light | 1) Loop-aes. 2) CFS. 3) TCFS. 4) BestCrypt. 5) CryptFS. |
| Task scheduler | mstask, nnCron | cron, at (standard, console). GUI: Kcron. |
| Outlook scheduler | Outlook scheduler | 1) KOrganizer. |
| Virtual CD | VirtualDrive, VirtualCD, Daemon Tools, ... | 1) Virtual CD Kernel Modul. 2) "cp /dev/cdrom mycd.iso" + "mount -o loop mycd.iso /mnt/cdrom/". |
| Text recognition (OCR) | Recognita, FineReader | 1) ClaraOcr. 2) Gocr. 3) Kooka. |
| Translators (cyrillic) | Promt, Socrat | Ksocrat (???) |
| Eng-rus dictionaries (cyrillic) | ABBYY Lingvo, Socrat | 1) Mueller. 2) Ksocrat. 3) JaLingvo. 4) phpMyLingvo. 5) dict+Kdict. 6) DictX. 7) Groan. 8) Mova. 9) Slowo. |
| Work with scanner | Programs on CD with scanner, VueScan | 1) Xsane. 2) Kooka. 3) Xvscan. [Prop] 4) VueScan. [Prop] |
| Antivirus | AVG AntiVirus, NAV, Dr. Web, TrendMicro, F-Prot, Kaspersky, ... | 1) Dr. Web for Linux. [Prop] 2) Trend ServerProtect for Linux. [Prop] 3) RAV Antivirus. [Prop] 4) OpenAntivirus + AMaViS / VirusHammer. 5) F-Prot. [Prop] 6) Sophie / Trophie. 7) Clam Antivirus. 8) Kaspersky for Linux. [Prop] |
| System configuration | Msconfig, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, etc | 1) setup (Red Hat). 2) chkconfig (Red Hat). 3) redhat-config-<feature>. (Red Hat 8.0). 4) xf86config, xf86cfg. 5) Linuxconf. 6) Drakeconf. 7) Webmin. 8) yast ?yast2 (SuSE). 9) sysinstall (FreeBSD). 10) /dev/hands :). |
| Boot managers | System Commander, PowerQuest Boot Magic, ... | 1) Grub. 2) Lilo. 3) ASPLoader. 4) Acronis OS Selector [Prop]. 5) Ranish Partition Manager. 6) osbs. 7) Symon. 8) Smart Boot Manager. 9) Xosl. |
| Hard disk partitions manager | PowerQuest Partition Magic [Prop], Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop] | 1) PartGUI. (GUI for partimage and parted) 2) GNU Parted. (GUI - QTParted). 3) Partition Image. 4) fips. 5) Diskdrake (Mandrake). 6) Paragon Partition Manager [Prop]. 7) Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop]. (review) |
| LVM + soft-RAID + parted + ... | - | EVMS. |
| Backup software | ntbackup (standard), Legato Networker [Prop] | 1) Legato Networker. [Prop] 2) Lonetar. [Prop] 3) Disk Archive. 4) Bacula. 5) Taper. 6) dump / restore. (console, standard) 7) Amanda (console). 8) Mondo Rescue. (backups that boot and auto restore themselves to disk) |
| Making images of disk partitions | 1) DriveImage 2) Ghostpe | 1) PartitionImage (GUI - PartGUI). 2) dd (console, standard). 3) Mondo Rescue. |
| Machine mirroring over network | 1) ImageCast 2) Norton Ghost | 1) UDP Cast. 2) Techteam's UDP Cast Disks. |
| Task manager | TaskMan (standard), TaskInfo, ProcessExplorer NT. | 1) top (console, standard). 2) Gtop, Ktop. 3) Ksysguard. 4) "ps aux|more", "kill <pid>" |
| Mouse gestures | Sensiva | 1) Kgesture. 2) wayV. 3) Optimoz. |
| Text to speech | MS text to speech | 1) KDE Voice Plugins. 2) Festival. 3) Emacspeak. |
| Speech recognition | ViaVoice, DragonNaturally Speaking | Yes, there are no usable speech recognition packages. But: 1) Sphinx. 2) ViaVoice. (almost dead...) |
| Stream text processing | Minimalist GNU For Windows (sed.exe) | 1) sed, awk. 2) perl. |
| PIM / DB / notebook with tree view | TreePad [Prop] , Leo | 1) TreePad Lite for Linux. [Prop] 2) Yank. 3) TreeLine. 4) Gjots. 5) Leo. 6) Hnb - hierarchical notebook. |
| Program for quick switching between resolutions and frequencies | Integrated with system, comes on CD with video card | 1) Multires for Linux. 2) Ctrl+Alt+"-", Ctrl+Alt+"+". 3) Fbset. (when using framebuffer) |
| Program for meta search | Integrated with system, Indexing service | 1) find (console, standard). 2) slocate (console, standard). GUI: 1) Gsearchtool. 2) Kfind. |
| System monitoring | System monitor (built-in) | 1) Gkrellm. 2) Ksysguard. 3) Hot-babe. (If you can be shocked by nudity, don't use it :). |
| Program for logs viewing | Event Viewer (built-in) | 1) Xlogmaster. 2) Analog. 3) Fwlogview. (firewall) |
| Data Recovery Tools | R-Studio (supports Linux partitions) | 1) e2undel. 2) myrescue. 3) TestDisk. 4) unrm. 5) Channel 16. |
| Text files encoder with automatic detection of character set | ??? | 1) Enca. 2) Jconv. 3) Xcode. (cyrillic) 4) Asrecod. (cyrillic) |
| Making the system more securely | ??? | 1) Bastille. |
| Alarm clock | MindIt! | 1) KAlarm. |
| Work with Palm | Palm Desktop | 1) Kpilot. 2) Jpilot. |
| Allows to carry on Palm .html files | iSilo | 1) iSilo for Linux. 2) Plucker. |
| Low-level optimization (chipset, pci-bus) | Powertweak | 1) Powertweak-Linux. |
| Bible | On-Line Bible, The SWORD | 1) BibleTime (KDE) 2) Gnomesword (Gnome) |
| 4.1) Multimedia (audio / CD). | ||
| Useful links: | - | Linux MIDI & Sound Applications - many links and resources. Sound Software - lots of it. |
| Music / mp3 / ogg players | Winamp | 1) XMMS (X multimedia system). 2) Noatun. 3) Zinf. (former Freeamp) 4) Winamp for Linux. 5) Xamp. 6) GQmpeg. 7) SnackAmp. |
| Console music / mp3 / ogg players | mpg123 for Windows, dosamp | 1) Cplayer. 2) mpg123. 3) ogg123. 4) mpg321. 5) Orpheus. 6) Mp3blaster. 7) Madplay. 8) Console utils for xmms. 9) Mplayer. |
| Programs for CD burning with GUI | Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator, ... | 1) K3b. (KDE) 2) XCDRoast. 3) KOnCd. 4) Eclipt Roaster. 5) Gnome Toaster. 6) CD Bake Oven. 7) KreateCD. 8) SimpleCDR-X. 9) GCombust. 10) WebCDWriter. (CD burn server, usable from any remote browser with Java support) 11) CDR Toaster. 12) Arson. |
| CD player | CD player | 1) KsCD. 2) Gtcd (Gnome) + tcd (console). 3) Orpheus. (console) 4) Sadp. 5) WorkMan. 6) Xmcd. 7) Grip. 8) XPlayCD. 9) ccd / cccd. (console) 10) cdp. (console) |
| Slowing the rotation of CD | Slowcd, Cdslow | 1) mount -o speed=<speed> 2) hdparm -E <speed> 3) eject -x <speed> 4) cdspeed. |
| CD ripping / grabbing | Windows Media Player, AudioGrabber, Nero, VirtualDrive, VirtualCD, CDex, ... | 1) Grip. 2) Audacity. 3) RipperX. 4) tkcOggRipper. 5) A Better CD Encoder. 6) cdda2wav. 7) Gnome ?aster. 8) Cdparanoia. 9) Cd2mp3. 10) Dagrab. 11) SimpleCDR-X. 12) RatRip. 13) AutoRip. |
| Tracker music player | Winamp, Windows Media Player, ... | 1) xmms + MikMod-plugin. Comes with xmms. 2) xmms + xmp-plugin. Using xmp. 3) MikMod. (console) 4) xmp. Can play tracker music with Midi devices. 5) TiMidity++. Only mod files. |
| Midi player | Winamp, Windows Media Player, ... | 1) xmms + midi-plugin. (Using TiMidity) 2) xmms + awemidi-plugin. (Using drvmidi) 3) xmms + playmidi-plugin. (Using playmidi) 4) TiMidity++. Supports gus pathes and sf2 banks, backend to another software. 4) timidity-eawpatches. Gus-patches for TiMidity++. 5) Kmid. 6) drvmidi / awemidi. 7) pmidi (console, for ALSA). 8) playmidi. 9) atmidi. |
| Midi + karaoke player | VanBasco | 1) Kmid. 2) Gkaraoke. 3) TiMidity++. |
| Mp3 encoders | Lame | 1) Lame. 2) Bladeenc. 3) NotLame. 4) L3enc. [Prop] 5) gogo. |
| OGG encoders | oggenc | oggenc. |
| Work with Real protocol | RealPlayer [Prop] | 1) RealPlayer for Linux. [Prop] 2) Mplayer + libraries. |
| Programs for receiving radio station | VC Radio, FMRadio, Digband Radio | 1) xradio. 2) cRadio. 3) Xmradio. 4) RDJ. 5) RadioActive. 6) XMMS-FMRadio. 7) Gqradio. |
| Audio editors | SoundForge, Cooledit, ... | 1) Rezound. 2) Sweep. 3) WaveForge. 4) Sox. 5) Audacity. 6) GNUSound. 7) Ecasound. 8) SoundStudio. |
| Multitrack audio processor | Cubase | 1) Ecasound. 2) Ardour. |
| Sound tracker | Fasttracker, ImpulseTracker | 1) Soundtracker. 2) Insotracker. 3) CheeseTracker. |
| Sound mixer | sndvol32 | 1) Opmixer. 2) aumix. 3) mix2000. 4) KMix. 5) Alsamixer. 6) GMix. 7) wmix (for WindowMaker) 8) Mixer_app (for WindowMaker) 9) Many applets for AfterStep / WindowMaker / FluxBox. |
| Notes editors | Finale, Sibelius, SmartScore | 1) LilyPond. 2) Noteedit. 3) MuX2d. |
| Midi-sequencer | Cakewalk | 1) RoseGarden. 2) Brahms. 3) Anthem. 4) Melys. 5) MuSE. 6) MidiMountain. (KDE) More infrormation: Midi-Howto. |
| Music creation | Cakewalk, FruityLoops | 1) RoseGarden. 2) Ardour. |
| The Synthesizer | Virtual waves, Csound | 1) Csound. 2) Arts Builder (???). |
| ID3-Tag Editors | Mp3tag | 1) EasyTAG. 2) Cantus. 3) id3tool (console). 4) id3ed (console). 5) id3edit (console). |
| Guitar/Instrument Tuning software | 1) In-Tune Multi-Instrument Tuner 2) Digital Guitar Tuner | ??? |
| 4.2) Multimedia (graphics). | ||
| Graphic files viewer | 1) ACDSee 2) IrfanView 3) Xnview 4) any web browser | 1) Xnview. 2) GQview. 3) Qiv. 4) CompuPic. 5) Kuickshow. 6) Kview. 7) GTKSee. 8) xv. [Prop] 9) pornview. 10) imgv. 11) Gwenview. 12) Gliv. 13) Showimg. 14) Fbi. 15) Gthumb. 16) PixiePlus. 17) Electric Eyes (Gnome). 18) Eye of Gnome. 19) GImageView. 20) compupic. [Prop] 21) any web browser |
| Viewing the graphic files in console | QPEG | 1) zgv. 2) aalib. |
| Simple graphic editor | Paint | 1) Kpaint. 2) Tuxpaint. 3) Xpaint. 4) Gpaint. 5) Killustrator. |
| Powerful graphic editor in PhotoShop style | 1) Adobe Photoshop [Prop] 2) Gimp for Windows 3) Paint Shop Pro [Prop] 4) Pixel32 [Prop] 5) Corel PhotoPaint [Prop] 6) Macromedia Fireworks | 1) Gimp. 2) ImageMagick. 3) Pixel32. [Prop] 4) CinePaint. 5) RubyMagick. 6) Corel PhotoPaint 9 for Linux. [Prop] |
| Programs for work with vector graphics | Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, AutoSketch | 1) Sodipodi. 2) xfig. 3) Sketch. 4) Karbon14 and Kontour. 5) OpenOffice Draw. 6) Dia. 7) Tgif. 8) Gestalter. 9) ImPress. 10) Tkpaint. 11) Tgif. 12) Corel Draw 9 for Linux. [Prop] |
| SVG editor | WebDraw [Prop] | 1) Sodipodi. 2) Dia. 3) Sketch. |
| SVG viewer | 1) Squiggle 2) X-Smiles 3) SVG support in Mozilla | 1) Squiggle. 2) X-Smiles. 3) SVG support in Mozilla. 4) SVG support in Konqueror. |
| Program for text decoration | Wordart | OpenOffice Draw. |
| Program for ASCII-drawing | ANSI DRAW, Mazaika | 1) CanvASCII. 2) Jave. 3) ANSI Draw. 4) EDASCII. |
| Converting the graphic files in pseudographics | ??? | aalib. |
| Flash playing | Flash Player | 1) SWF Macromedia Flash Player. 2) Flash Player for Linux. [Prop] 3) Plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (download here or here). |
| Flash creation | Macromedia Flash | 1) DrawSWF. 2) Ming. (Creating flash swf output from programming languages) |
| 3D-graphics | 3D Studio MAX, Maya [Prop], Povray, ... | 1) Blender. 2) Maya. [Prop] 3) KPovModeler. 4) K3Studio. 5) Moonlight. 6) GIG3DGO. 7) Povray. 8) K3D. 9) Wings 3D. 10) Softimage XSI. [Prop] |
| The instrument for making the photographic quality scene based of ArchiCAD 3D-models | ArtLantis Render | ??? |
| Icon editor | Microangelo | 1) Gnome-iconedit. 2) Kiconedit. |
| Small program for making screenshots | Integrated with system (PrintScreen), Snag it, ... | 1) Ksnapshot. 2) Xwpick. 3) Xwd, xgrabsc. 4) Motv (xawtv) 5) Streamer (video) 6) Integrated with window manager (various hotkeys) |
| Drawing structure diagrams of the database | Access | 1) Dia. 2) Toolkit for Conceptual Modelling. |
| Create printed calendars, greeting cards, etc., with clip art collection | Broderbund Print Shop | ??? |
| 4.3) Multimedia (video and other) | ||
| Video / mpeg4 players | 1) BSplayer 2) Zoomplayer 3) Windows Media Player 4) VideoLAN 5) Winamp3 | 1) Mplayer. 2) Xine. 3) Sinek. (frontend for libxine) 4) VideoLAN. 5) Aviplay. 6) Winamp3 for Linux. 7) Noatun. 8) KDE Media Player. 9) XMovie. 10) Kaboodle. 11) MpegTV. 12) Avifile. 13) Xmps. 14) Ogg Tarkin. (???) 15) Theora. (???) |
| Console video / mpeg4 players | QuickView | 1) Mplayer. 2) QuickView. |
| DVD players | PowerDVD, WinDVD, MicroDVD, Windows Media Player, VideoLAN | 1) Ogle. 2) Mplayer. 3) Xine. 4) Aviplay. 5) VideoLAN. 6) OMS. |
| DVD rippers / encoders | Gordian Knot | 1) Drip. 2) Transcode. 3) Mencoder. (from Mplayer) 4) Ffmpeg. 5) DVD::Rip. |
| Simple video creation and editing | Windows Movie Maker | 1) iMira Editing. [Prop] 2) MainActor. [Prop] 3) Broadcast 2000. |
| Professional video creation and editing | Adobe Premiere, Media Studio Pro | 1) iMira Editing. 2) Cinelerra. 3) MainActor. 4) Broadcast 2000. 5) Lives. 6) CinePaint. |
| Cutting video | Virtual Dub | 1) Avidemux. 2) Kino. |
| Converting video | Virtual Dub | 1) Transcode. 2) Mencoder. (from Mplayer) 3) Ffmpeg. |
| Work with TV-tuner | AVerTV, PowerVCR 3.0, CinePlayer DVR, ... | 1) Kwintv. 2) Xawtv. 3) Zapping. 4) GnomeTV. 5) Mplayer. |
| Work with TV-tuner in console | - | 1) Mplayer. 2) fbtv. 3) aatv. |
| Work with QuickTime format | QuickTime Player | 1) QuickTime for Linux. 2) Mplayer + Sorenson codec. 3) OpenQuicktime. 4) Xanim. |
| Creation of 2D and 3D effects | Adobe After Effects | 1) Shake. [Proprietary, $129.95] 2) Plugins for Gimp. |
| Animation | Animation Shop, ... | 1) CinePaint. 2) Plugins for Gimp. |
| Landscape / terrain generation | Bryce | Terraform. |
| World construction | World Construction Set, Animatek World Builder | ??? |
| Framework for developing video applications | ??? | 1) Gstreamer. 2) Live. |
| 5) Office/business. | ||
| Office suite | MS Office, StarOffice / OpenOffice, 602Software | 1) Openoffice. 2) Staroffice. [Prop] 3) Koffice. 4) HancomOffice. [Prop] 5) Gnome Office. 6) Applixware Office. [Prop] 7) Siag Office. 8) TeX, LaTeX, ... |
| Office suite | WordPerfect Office 2000 | WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. (No longer available at Corel website. It was Windows version, running under Wine :). |
| Word processor | Word, StarOffice / OpenOffice Writer, 602Text | 1) Abiword. 2) WordPerfect. 3) Ted. 4) StarOffice / OpenOffice Writer. 5) Kword. 6) LyX. 7) Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment). |
| Spreadsheets | Excel, StarOffice / OpenOffice Calc, 602Tab | 1) Gnumeric. 2) Abacus. 3) StarOffice / OpenOffice Calc. 4) Kspread. |
| Graphing / charting data | Excel, ... | 1) Kivio. 2) Dia. 3) KChart. 4) xfig. 5) Gnuplot. 6) GtkGraph. 7) GNU Plotutils. 8) Ploticus. |
| Creating presentations | MS PowerPoint, StarOffice Presentation, OpenOffice Impress | 1) StarOffice Presentation. 2) OpenOffice Impress. 3) Kpresenter. 4) MagicPoint. 5) Kuickshow & gimp :). |
| Local database | Access | 1) KNoda. 2) Gnome DB Manager. 3) OpenOffice + MySQL. 4) InterBase7. [Prop] 5) InterBase6. 6) Berkley DB. 7) Rekall. [Prop] 8) StarOffice Adabase. |
| Receiving the quotings, news, building graphs and analysing of the financial market. | Omega Research Trade Station 2000 | ??? |
| Software for e-commerce and web business | 1) Weblogic [Prop] 2) IBM WebSphere Application Server [Prop] 3) iPlanet 4) osCommerce | 1) Weblogic for Linux. [Prop] 2) JBoss. 3) IBM WebSphere Application Server. [Prop] 4) osCommerce. |
| Personal finances manager | MS Money, Quicken | 1) GNUcash. 2) GnoFin. 3) Kmymoney. 4) Grisbi. |
| Project management | MS Project, Project Expert 7 | Mr Project. |
| Financial accounting package (global) | ??? | 1) Hansa Business Solutions. [Prop] 2) Quickbooks. |
| Financial accounting package (Russia) | "1C: Accounting" | 1) Hansa Business Solutions. [Prop] 2) IceB. 3) "Finances without problems". 4) Ananas. 5) E/AS. 6) 1L: Project. |
| Financial accounting package (India & Asia) | ??? | Kalculate. [Prop] |
| Automation of the enterprise (Russia) | "1C: Enterprise" | 1) Keeper. [Prop] 2) Oblik. [Prop] 3) IceB. 4) Compiere. |
| ERP\CRM (Russia) | "BOSS-Corporation" | 1) NauRP. 2) Compiere. |
| Corporate docflow system (Russia). | 1) "Boss-Referent" 2) Documentum 3) "Delo" 4) Lanit:LanDoc | 1) NauDoc. 2) Documentum. 3) "Boss-Referent" (without the client part) |
| 6) Games. | ||
| Where to get | Anywhere you want :). | The Linux Game Tome (happypenguin.org) | LinuxGames.com | Kde Games | Linux Game Publishing |
| The Linux Game List | - | http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php |
| Games for Windows, that can be run under WineX | - | This is a search form, and this is a full list of games (very big). |
| - | Tetris | 1) LTris. 2) XWelltris. 3) Emacs + "Meta-X tetris". |
| - | Standard Windows games | 1) Kdegames. 2) Gnome-games. |
| - | Mines | 1) KMines. 2) Perlmines. |
| - | Civilization | FreeCiv. |
| - | Civilization: Call to Power | Civilization: Call to Power for Linux. |
| - | Sid Meyer Alpha Centauri | Sid Meyer Alpha Centauri for Linux. |
| - | Sim City 3000 | Sim City 3000 for Linux. |
| - | Command&Conquer | FreeCNC. |
| - | Warcraft 2, Starcraft (?) | FreeCraft. |
| - | (Win)Digger | 1) Digger. 2) XDigger. |
| - | Arkanoid, Zball, ... | Lbreakout2. |
| - | Quake 1, 2, 3 | 1) Quake 1, 2, 3 for Linux. 2) QuakeForge. |
| - | CounterStrike | CounterStrike under WineX. |
| - | Urban Terror | Urban Terror for Linux. |
| DOOM | 1) jDoom / Doomsday. 2) Zdoom. 3) DOOM Legacy. 4) LxDOOM. 5) PrBoom. 6) EDGE. 7) Vavoom. 8) Original Doom. | 1) jDoom / Doomsday. 2) Zdoom. 3) DOOM Legacy. 4) LxDOOM. 5) PrBoom. 6) EDGE. 7) Vavoom. 8) Original Linux Doom (X11/svgalib). |
| Heretic | 1) DOOM Legacy. 2) jHeretic / Doomsday. 3) Vavoom. 4) Original Heretic. | 1) DOOM Legacy. 2) Vavoom. 3) Heretic for Linux, GL Heretic. |
| Hexen | 1) jHexen / Doomsday. 2) Vavoom. 3) Original Hexen. | 1) Hexen/SDL. 2) Vavoom. |
| - | Heretic 2 | Heretic 2 for Linux. |
| - | Return to Castle Wolfenstein | Return to Castle Wolfenstein for Linux. [Prop] |
| - | Descent | Descent for Linux. |
| - | Never Winter Nights | Never Winter Nights for Linux. |
| - | Unreal Tournament / Unreal Tournament 2003 | Unreal Tournament / Unreal Tournament 2003 for Linux. |
| - | Soldier Of Fortune | Soldier Of Fortune for Linux. |
| - | Tribes 2 | Tribes 2 for Linux. |
| - | Blood 1 | Qblood. |
| - | Worms | Nil. |
| - | Lines | 1) GtkBalls. 2) gLines. |
| - | MS Flight Simulator | FlightGear. |
| - | Lemmings | Pingus. |
| Racing | Need For Speed | 1) Tux Racer :). 2) KartlingRace. |
| Chess | ChessMaster, ... | 1) Glchess. 2) Xboard. 3) Eboard. |
| 7) Programming and development. | ||
| IDE | Microsoft VisualStudio .net | 1) CodeForge. 2) Kdevelop + Qt3 Designer. 3) Eclipse. 4) Glade + Motor or + Xwpe or + any text editor. 5) Emacs, XEmacs. 6) Vim + ctags + script-xs from vim.sf.net. 7) Boa Constructor. 8) PythonCard. |
| Visual C++ IDE | Borland C++ Builder, MS Visual C | 1) Anjuta + Glade + Devhelp. 2) KDE Studio Gold. [Prop] 3) Dev-C++. 4) Kylix. [Prop] (Kylix Personal Edition is free). 5) vtkBuilder. 6) foxBuilder. 7) wxDesigner. 8) Arriba. [Prop] 9) Code Crusader. [Prop] 10) CodeWarrior. [Prop] 11) Gbuilder. 12) Source Navigator. 13) TimeStorm. [Prop] 14) Understand for C++. [Prop] 15) SlickEdit. [Prop] 16) Vide. |
| C++ IDE | Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS, , Minimalist GNU For Windows (mingw32-gcc.exe) | 1) GCC (+ Motor or + Xwpe). 2) LinEdit. 3) Rhide. 4) Wxstudio. 5) Eclipse. |
| Object Pascal IDE | Delphi | 1) Kylix. [Prop] (Kylix Personal Edition is free). 2) Lazarus + FPC. |
| Pascal | Pascal, BP | 1) Freepascal. 2) GNU Pascal. 3) RShell (in style of Borland Pascal 7.0) |
| Basic | Basic | 1) Hbasic. 2) X-basic. 3) Yabasic. 4) SmallBASIC. |
| Prolog | VisualProlog, Mercury, SICStus Prolog [Prop] | 1) GNU Prolog. 2) Mercury. 3) SWI-Prolog. 4) SICStus Prolog. [Prop] 5) CIAO Prolog. |
| Assembler | TASM, MASM, NASM | 1) NASM. (Intel syntax) 2) FLAT Assembler. 3) gas. (AT&T syntax, part of binutils). |
| Disassembler, Reverse engineering | SoftIce | The source code is open :) 1) ldasm. |
| Debugger | Minimalist GNU For Windows (gdb.exe) | gdb. Frontends: 1) ddd. 2) xxgdb, mxgdb. 3) CGDB. 4) Vim script-xs. 5) [X]Emacs C-mode. |
| WYSIWYG html editor | Macromez Dreamweaver, Frontpage | 1) Netscape / Mozilla Composer. 2) Openoffice HTML editor. 3) Amaya. 4) GINF (Ginf is not Frontpage) 5) IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder. [Prop] |
| Powerful editor for site creating, contains set of samples and can be complemented with every sort and kind of plug-ins | Dreamweaver Ultradev | ??? |
| HTML editor | HomeSite, Coffeecup | 1) Quanta Plus. 2) Bluefish. 3) WebMaker. 4) Screem. 5) Toppage. 6) WebDesigner. 7) Script-xEditor. 8) August. 9) Coffeecup / Linux. |
| HTML editor | Arachnofilia | Arachnofilia. [Prop] |
| XML Editor | XML Spy [Prop] | 1) Vim. 2) Emacs. |
| Perl/Python/Tcl IDE | - | Komodo. [Prop] |
| Java IDE | JBuilder | Link: Java Tools for Linux. 1) Jbuilder for Linux. 2) NetBeans. 3) Eclipse. 4) Sun ONE Studio. [formerly Forte] 5) Vide. |
| IDE for Oracle Database development | T.O.A.D., SQL Navigator, PL/SQL Developer | Tora. |
| CASE-facility for UML | ArgoUML, Together ControlCenter [Prop] | 1) Umbrello UML Modeller. 2) Dia+Dia2Code. 3) PoceidonCE (community edition). 4) ArgoUML. 5) Together ControlCenter [Prop] |
| Top-level CASE system | Rational Rose. | Rational Rose for Linux. [Prop] |
| HEX-editor | Hiew | 1) Biew. 2) KHexEdit. 3) hexedit (console). 4) GHex. |
| Clipper compiler and preprocessor | CA-Clipper, The Harbour Project | 1) Clip. 2) The Harbour Project. 3) xHarbour. |
| Platform in dot-net style | M$ .Net | 1) Mono. 2) DotGNU/Portable.NET |
| Work with CVS | WinCVS, TortoiseCVS, cvs for Windows, BitKeeper [Prop] | 1) cvs (console). 2) Cervisia (KDE). 3) Lincvs. (Front-end for CVS) 4) BitKeeper. [Prop] 5) SubVersion. (enhanced CVS-like platform + WebDAV -> SCM) |
| IDE for Interbase/Firebird development | IBExpert | ??? |
| Visual Basic | Visual Basic | Phoenix. |
| Graphical libraries | 1) WinAPI, MFC, VCL (C, C++) 2) Tk (Tcl, C) 3) Tkinter (over Tk for Python, Perl, etc) 4) wxWindows (C++) (over winapi) 5) wxPython (Python) (over wxWindows) 6) GTK+ (link #2) (C, C++) 7) Qt (C++) 8) FLTK (C++) 9) AWT, Swing (Java) 10) Xaw - part of X-server (C) | If toolkit is oriented on C, usually it's possible to use it from the other languages. There is object bindings for some of them to use them with C++ and other OO-languages. Toolkits, oriented on C++ from the beginning, are impossible to use from C, and quite often - from the other languages. 1) X11/Xext (C) - low level libraries, used by others. 2) Xt - X Toolkit (C) - reference X11 toolkit 3) Xaw - MIT Athena (C) - reference X11 toolkit 4) Xaw3d - MIT Athena 3D (C) - Athena with 3D-view 5) LessTif - opensource analog of Motif 1 (C) 6) OpenMotif (C) 7) Tk (Tcl, C) 8) Tkinter (over Tk for Python, Perl, etc) 9) wxWindows (C++) (over GTK+ - wxGtk or Motif - wxMotif) 10) wxPython (Python) (over wxWindows) 11) Qt (C++) 12) GTK+ (C, C++) 13) PyQt (over Qt for Python) 14) PyGTK (over GTK+ for Python) 15) Gtk::Perl (over GTK+ for Perl) 16) Qt for Perl (over Qt for Perl) 17) GtkAda (over GTK+ for Ada95) 18) FLTK (C++) 19) XView (C) 20) FOX (C++) 21) AWT, Swing (Java) 22) WinAPI ?MFC through wine (C) |
| Source code documentation system | ??? | 1) Doxygen. 2) CWEB. |
| Memory leak tracing | ??? | 1) MallocDebug. 2) Valgrind. 3) Kcachegrind. 4) ElectricFence. 5) dmalloc. 6) www.ira.uka.de/%7Earmin/ccmalloc/" target=_blank>ccmalloc. 7) LeakTracer. 8) www.gnome.org/projects/memprof" target=_blank>memprof. 9) BoundsChecker. [prop] 10) mprof. 11) Insure. [prop] 12) dbx. (for Sparc) 13) YAMD. 14) Njamd. 15) Mpatrol. |
| Application development profiling (tests code performance) | ??? | 1) gProf. |
| 8) Server software. | ||
| Web-server | 1) Apache 2) IIS 3) Roxen 4) wn 5) cern-httpd 6) dhttpd 7) caudium 8) aolserver 9) Boa | 1) Apache. 2) Xitami. 3) Thttp. 4) TUX (Red Hat Content Accelerator). 5) PublicFile. 6) Boa. 7) Caudium. 8) Roxen. 9) Zeus. [Prop] |
| FTP-server | Internet Information Server, ServU, War FTP, BulletProof FTP server | 1) pure-ftpd. 2) vsftpd. 3) wu-ftpd. 4) proftpd. 5) gl-ftpd. 6) ftp. 7) PublicFile. |
| Language for Web-development | PHP for Windows | PHP. |
| Language for Web-development | Perl for Windows | Perl. |
| Language for Web-development | ASP | ASP module for Apache. |
| Database engine | MS SQL, MySQL for Windows | 1) Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. [Prop] 2) PostgreSQL. The most advanced open source database. 3) MySQL. The most popular open source database. 4) mSQL. 5) SAP DB. |
| Database engine | IBM DB2 | IBM DB2 for Linux. [Prop] |
| Database engine | Oracle for Windows | 1) Oracle. [Prop] 2) PostgreSQL. 3) Linter. (cyrillic) |
| Database engine | Informix [Prop] | Informix. [Prop] |
| Database engine | Borland Interbase, FireBird | FireBird. |
| Email server | MDaemon, Hamster | 1) Sendmail. 2) Qmail. 3) Postfix. 4) Exim. |
| Email / PIM / Groupware server | Microsoft Exchange | 1) CommuniGate Pro. [Prop] 2) Bynari's Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 3) Samsung Contact. [Prop] 4) Teamware Office for Linux. [Prop] 5) Novell Netmail. [Prop] 6) Amphora. Based on zope and qmail. 7) Tutos. Based on Linux / Apache / PHP / Mysql / Sendmail. 8) Kroupware. The project from the KDE PIM developers, which is being financed by the government of Germany. 9) SuSe Linux Openexchange Server. [Prop] 10) phpGroupWare. [Prop] 11) SCOoffice Mail Server. [Prop] |
| Mail filter / spam killer | cygwin+Exim port | 1) SpamAssassin. 2) Procmail. 3) Mailfilter. 4) ?rus-imap. 5) Exim. |
| Mail downloader | MDaemon | Fetchmail. |
| ??? | Lotus Domino for Windows | Lotus Domino for Linux. [Prop] |
| Server / router on one diskette. | Impossible | As much as you want :). 1) muLinux. 2) Dachstein (firewall / dhcp). 3) Serverdisk (http / ftp). 4) Fli4l. |
| Proxy server | MS Proxy Server, WinGate | 1) Squid. 2) Paco. 3) Privoxy. 4) Wwwoffle. 5) OOPS. |
| Server for supporting Java Servlets ?JSP, can work with Apache | Tomcat | Tomcat. |
| 9) Scientific and special programs. | ||
| Useful links: | - | Scientific Applications on Linux - many links to both OSS and proprietary applications. |
| Math system in MathCad style | Mathcad | Gap. |
| Math system in Matlab style | Matlab | 1) Matlab for Linux. [FTP] 2) Octave. (+ Gnuplot) 3) Scilab. 4) R. 5) Yorick. 6) rlab. 7) Yacas. 8) Euler. |
| Math system in Mathematica style | Mathematica | 1) Mathematica for Linux. [Prop] 2) Maxima. 3) MuPad. 4) NumExp. |
| Math system in Maple style | Maple | 1) Maple for Linux. [Prop] 2) Maxima. 3) MuPad. |
| Equation / math editor | Mathtype, MS Equation Editor | 1) OpenOffice Math. 2) MathMLed. 3) Kformula (Koffice). 4) LyX. 5) Texmacs. |
| Programs for three-dimensional modeling | SolidWorks, ... | ProEngineer Linux. [Prop] |
| Programs for three-dimensional modeling | CATIA for Windows | CATIA. It was designed under Unix, and from version 4 (2000) it was ported under Windows (not too successfully). |
| Programs for three-dimensional modeling | SolidEdge for Windows | SolidEdge (part of more powerful package Unigraphics). |
| Engineering | ANSYS for Windows | ANSYS. |
| CAD/CAM/CAE | Autocad, Microstation | 1) Varkon. 2) Linuxcad. [Prop, ~100$] 3) Varicad. [Prop] 4) Cycas. [Prop] 5) Tomcad. 6) Thancad. 7) Fandango. 8) Lignumcad. 9) Giram. 10) Jcad. 11) QSCad. 12) FreeEngineer. 13) Ocadis. 14) PythonCAD. |
| CAD/CAM/CAE, simplified | ArchiCAD | Qcad. |
| Desktop Publishing Systems | Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress | Adobe Framemaker. [Proprietary, cancelled] |
| Small desktop publishing systems | MS Publisher | 1) Scribus - Desktop Publishing for Linux. 2) KWord. |
| Diagram and chart designer | Microsoft Visio | 1) Kivio (Koffice). 2) Dia. 3) KChart. 4) xfig. 5) Tgif + dotty. 6) Tulip. |
| Geographic image processing software | Erdas Imagine, ER Mapper, ENVI | ENVI for Linux. |
| GIS (Geographical information system) | ArcView | 1) Grass. 2) Quantum GIS. 3) PostGIS. |
| Vectorization of bitmaps | MapEdit, Easy Trace | 1) Autotrace. |
| Software CNC, controlling machine tools | OpenCNC [Prop] | EMC. |
| Advanced text processing system in TeX style | MikTex, emTeX (DOS) | 1) TeX. 2) TeTeX / LaTeX 3) LyX (WYSIWYM). 4) Kile. |
| Convenient, functional and user-friendly TeX-files / dvi-files editor. | WinEdt | 1) Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment). 2) Ktexmaker2. 3) Tk LaTeX Editor. |
| Statistical Computing Language and Environment | S-PLUS | R. |
| Statistical analysis | SPSS, Statistica | Many links - here. 1) PSPP. 2) OpenStat2. 3) "Probability and Statistics Utilities for Linux users" |
| Econometrics Software | Eviews, Gretl | 1) Gretl. |
| Emulation of the circuit | Electronic Workbench | 1) Geda. 2) Oregano. 3) Xcircuit. 4) Gnome Assisted Electronics. 5) SPICE. 6) SPICE OPUS. 7) NG-SPICE. |
| Program to draw chemical structures | Chemdraw, Isisdraw | Xdrawchem. |
| Downloader and player for Olympus dictophone | Olympus DSS Player | ??? |
| Market analysis | MetaStock | ??? |
| Electronics scheme design | PCAD | 1) Eagle. 2) Geda. |
| The oscilloscope emulation | Winoscillo | Xoscope. |
| Measurement of the temperature and voltages on motherboard | MBMonitor, PCAlert | KHealthCare (KDE). |
| S.M.A.R.T-attributes and temperature of the hard disk | Come on CD with mainboard, Active SMART | 1) smartctl. 2) Hddtemp-0.3. 3) IDEload-0.2. 4) Smartsuite-2.1. 5) Smartmontools. 6) Ide-smart. 7) Smartsuite. |
| Memory testing | SiSoft SANDRA | Memtest86. |
| Program for watching temperatures, fanspeeds, etc | SiSoft SANDRA, SiSoft SAMANTHA | 1) Ksensors. 2) Lm_sensors. 3) xsensors. 4) wmsensormon and other applets for AfterStep / WindowMaker / FluxBox. |
| HDD testing / benchmarking | SiSoft SANDRA, SiSoft SAMANTHA | 1) hdparm. 2) Bonnie++. 3) IOzone. 4) Dbench. 5) Bonnie. 6) IO Bench. 7) Nhfsstone. 8) SPEC SFS. [Prop] |
| Video testing / benchmarking | Final Reality | 1) X11perf. 2) Viewperf. |
| Realtime Control | SHA Sybera Hardware Access | DIAPM RTAI - Realtime Application Interface. |
| Simulator of nets | ??? | 1) NS. |
| Neural network simulation | ??? | 1) Xnbc. 2) Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS). |
| "Sensor for LCD" | ??? | 1) Sensors-lcd. |
| Electrocardiogrammas viewer | ??? | 1) ecg2png. |
| A software technology, that turns x86 computer into a full-function PLC-like process controller | SoftPLC | 1) MatPLC. |
| Catalog of the software for translators | - | Linux for translators. |
| Translation memory | 1) Trados Translators Workbench 2) Deja Vu 3) Star Transit 4) SDLX 5) OmegaT | 1) OmegaT. |
| Catalog of educational software | - | 1) SchoolForge. 2) Seul / EDU. |
| Designing and viewing DTDs | NearFar Designer [Prop] | ??? |
| 10) Emulators. | ||
| Virtual machine emulator | VMWare for Windows | 1) VMWare for Linux. [Prop] 2) Win4Lin. [Proprietary, $89]. 3) Bochs. 4) Plex86. 5) User Mode Linux. |
| Linux emulator | 1) CygWin. 2) MKS Toolkit. 3) Bash for Windows. 3) Minimalist GNU For Windows. | 1) User Mode Linux. |
| X Window System (XFree) emulator | XFree under CygWin. | - |
| Windows emulator | - | 1) Wine. (GUI: gwine, tkwine) 2) Transgaming WineX. (GUI: tqgui) [Prop] 3) Crossover Office. |
| Sony PlayStation emulator | ePSXe, ... | 1) ePSXe. 2) Pcsx. |
| ZX Spectrum emulator | X128, Speccyal, SpecX, SpecEmu, UnrealSpeccy, ... | 1) Xzx. 2) Glukalka. 3) Fuse. 4) ZXSP-X. 5) FBZX. 6) SpectEmu. |
| Arcade machines emulator | ??? | 1) Xmame / Xmess. 2) Advancemame. Frontends: advancemenu. ckmame. flynn. gmame. gnomame. grok. grustibus. gxmame. it. it's quit. fancy. kmamerun. kmamu. qmamecat. startxmame. setcleaner. tkmame. |
| ST emulator | ??? | 1) StonX. |
| C64 emulator | ??? | 1) Vice. |
| Amiga emulator | ??? | 1) UAE. |
| Mac 68k emulator | ??? | 1) Basilisk II. |
| Game boy emulator | ??? | 1) Vboy. 2) VGBA. (GUI: vgb-gui) |
| Atari 2600 Video Computer System emulator | 1) Stella | 1) Stella. |
| NES emulator | 1) Zsnes. 2) Snes9x. | 1) Zsnes. 2) Snes9x. 3) FWNes. 4) GTuxNes. |
| M680x0 Arcade emulator | 1) Rainemu. | 1) Rainemu. |
| Multi / other emulators | ??? | 1) M.E.S.S. 2) Zinc. |
| 11) Other / Humour :) | ||
| Space simulator | 1) Openuniverse. 2) Celestia. 3) Zetadeck. | 1) Openuniverse. 2) Celestia. 3) Kstars. 4) Zetadeck. |
| TV driver | - | RivaTV. |
| System, running from CD without installing (Live CD) | Impossible | 1) Knoppix. 2) Cool Linux. 3) Blin. 4) DemoLinux. 5) DyneBolic. 6) Gentoo (live CD). 7) Lonix. 8) Virtual Linux. 9) Bootable Business Card (LNX-BBC). 10) ByzantineOS. 11) FreeLoader Linux. 12) MoviX. 13) Freeduc CD. 14) SuSE live-eval CD. 15) Freedom Linux. 16) Eagle Linux. |
| Boot rescue/tools diskette | Windows system diskette | 1) Linux system diskette. 2) Tomsrtbt. 3) BanShee Linux. |
| Local file systems mount | ext2fs (driver), explore2fs (program) - ext2/3 under Windows | Linux-NTFS. (driver for NTFS partitions mounting) |
| Installing software and uninstalling | InstallShield, WISE, GhostInstaller, Microsoft Installer - the analog of rpm | 1) Rpm. 2) Urpmi. 3) GnoRpm. 4) Nautilus RPM. 5) Apt-get & frontends (synaptic, aptitude, ...). 6) Apt-rpm. (for RedHat, SuSE, ALT Linux, etc) 7) yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified) 8) yum enhanced by ASPLinux. |
| Installing software from source and uninstalling | Minimalist GNU For Windows | 1) make install, make uninstall 2) CheckInstall. 3) Sinstall. 4) Emerge (Gentoo). 5) Apt-get & frontends (synaptic, aptitude, ...). |
| System update | Windows Update | 1) Ximian Red Carpet. 2) Red Hat Network. 3) MandrakeOnline. 4) SuSE YaST Online Update. 5) Caldera Volution Online. 6) Apt. 7) Gentoo ebuilds (portage). 8) Debian GNU/Linux package search. 9) Yum. |
| Certification | MCSD, MCT, MCSE | 1) Red Hat Certification. 2) Sair Linux and GNU Certification. 3) Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC). 4) Linux+. 5) Prometric. 6) VUE. |
| Icons on desktop | Explorer | 1) Desktop File Manager. 2) Idesk. |
| Work with screensavers | Desktop properties | 1) xset. 2) xlockmore. 3) xscreensaver. 4) kscreensaver. |
| Place for keeping "removed" files | Trash | 1) Trash Can. 2) Libtrash. |
| Checking the hard disk | Scandisk | fsck -check or reiserfsck -check. Not needed with journaled file systems (reiserfs, ext3, jfs, xfs). |
| Defragmentation | defrag | Not needed. |
| GUI of the system | Windows Explorer | Kde, Gnome, IceWM, Windowmaker, Blackbox, Fluxbox, ... |
| Windows XP GUI | Windows XP | XPde. |
| Flavors of the sytem | 9x, NT, XP | RedHat, Mandrake, Knoppix, Debian, SuSE, ALT, ASP, Gentoo, Slackware, Linux From Scratch, ... |
| Tactics | FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) | Open Source! "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". |
| Source code of the kernel freely available | No | Of course :) |
| Command line | 1) command.com :). 2) cmd.exe 3) Windows Script-xing Host 4) 4DOS / 4NT 5) Minimalist GNU For Windows 6) Unix tools for Windows (AT&T) | 1) Bash. 2) Csh. 3) Zsh. 4) Ash. 5) Tcsh. |
| Free of charge operating system | Microsoft Windows. (Imagine yourself that in Russia there are 95% of users having a pirate copy of Windows :). | Linux - the Free operating system!! |
| - | Nimda | Slapper. |
| - | Wincih, klez, etc | No analogs |
| Backdoors and hidden keys | Decide it yourself :). | - |
| Easter eggs, undocumented possibilities | Logo with Windows developers, Doom in Excel 95, 3D-racing in Excel 2000, etc, etc... | - |
| The magazines | Windows Magazine | 1) Linux Journal. 2) Linux Gazette. 3) Linux magazine. 4) Linux pratico (Italy). |
| - | Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) | 1) Kernel panic. 2) Screensaver "bsod" :). |
| Whom it is necessary to curse for bugs and defects of the system | M$, Bill Gates personally | 1) Developers of the distribution. 2) All the Linux people and Linus Torvalds personally :). 3) Yourself and your own /dev/hands :)). |
| - | M$.com | GNU.org, FSF.org |
| - | Windows.com | Linux.org |
| - | Bill Gates, "Road ahead" | Linus Torvalds, "Just for fun" :). |
| - | Bill Gates, "Business @ the speed of thought" | Richard M. Stallman, "The right to read". |
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(c) Valery V. Kachurov, Nesov Artem, 2002-2003
