6/14/2007

The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.

last update: 19.04.03.


This page on other languages: Russian version, Italian version, Spanish version.


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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