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

last update: 19.04.03.

URL: http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/.

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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