Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2006-03-05T16:04:19Z

Odalcet: /* Office */

In migrating to Linux from Windows, a common question is "Where can I get a program for Linux that is similar to XYZ program on Windows?" Fear not! Listed below are programs that could be considered roughly equivalent to certain popular Windows applications.

== Networking ==

{|
! Windows apps !! Linux apps
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, etc. ||
[[Epiphany]],
[[Firefox]],
[[Galeon]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[Lynx]],
[[Mozilla]],
[[Nautilus]],
[[Netscape]],
[[Opera]]
|-
| Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, Pegasus, Lotus Notes ||
[[Kontact]],
[[Evolution]],
[[Thunderbird]],
[[Sylpheed-Claws]]
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, Gaim ||
[[aMSN]],
[[Gaim]],
[[Kopete]],
[[KICQ]],
[[Gabber]],
[[Centericq]]
|-
| Microsoft Netmeeting ||
[[Gnomemeeting]]
|-
| WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[[Kasablanca]],
[[GFTP]],
[[KBear]],
[[FireFTP]]
[[Konqueror]]
|-
| mIRC ||
[[KVIrc]],
[[XChat]],
[[BitchX]]
|-
| MailWasher ||
[[KShowmail]]
|}

== Multimedia ==

{|
! Windows apps !! Linux apps
|-
| Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, GIMPShop ||
[[GIMP]],
[[GIMPShop]]
|-
| Irfanview ||
[[XnView]], [[Gqview|GQView]]
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, Blender ||
[[Blender]],
[[K-3D]]
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD ||
[[MPlayer]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
[[VLC]]
|-
| Winamp, Sonique ||
[[amaroK]],
[[XMMS]],
[[Beep media player|BMP]],
[[juke]],
[[noatun]],
[[RhythmBox]],
[[xine]] will play aac and wma
|-
| Windows Movie Maker ||
[[Cinelerra]],
[[KDenlive]],
[[LiVES]]
|-
| Cubase, CoolEdit ||
[[Ardour]],
[[Rosegarden]],
[[Audacity]],
[[Beast]]
|-
| Audio Catalyst, dbpoweramp, CDex ||
[[Grip]],
[[audacity]]
|-
| Cakewalk ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]]
|-
| Kid Pix, Tux Paint ||
[[Tux Paint]]
|}

== Office ==

{|
! Windows apps !! Linux apps
|-
| Microsoft Office, OpenOffice ||
[[OpenOffice]],
[[KOffice]],
[[Siag Office]]
|-
| Word ||
[[OOWriter]],
[[AbiWord]],
[[KWord]]
|-
| Access ||
[[PgAccess]]*,
[[Rekall]]*,
[[Knoda]]*,
[[OOBase]]
|-
| Excel ||
[[OOCalc]],
[[Gnumeric]],
[[KSpread]]
|-
| Visio ||
[[Kivio]],
[[Dia]]
|-
| PowerPoint ||
[[OOImpress]],
[[KPresenter]]
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager ||
[[MrProject]]
|-
| Outlook, Thunderbird ||
[[Evolution]],
[[Kontact]],
[[BALSA]],
[[Thunderbird]]
|-
| Quicken, MicrosoftMoney, TurboTax ||
[[GnuCash]],
[[KMyMoney]],
[[jGnash]],
[[MoneyDance]],
[[Grisbi]],
[[PLCash]]
[[CrossOver Office]] with Quicken, [[lazy8ledger]]
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>PgAccess, Rexall, and Knoda are front-ends to an [[SQL server]].

== Desktop Publishing ==
{|
! Windows apps !! Linux apps
|-
| Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver ||
[[OOWeb]],
[[NVU]],
[[Quanta Plus]],
[[Mozilla]],
[[Screem]],
[[Bluefish]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher ||
[[Scribus]],
OpenOffice.org [[oodraw]]
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader ||
[[Adobe Acrobat Reader]],
[[Xpdf]],
[[Ghostview]],
[[Evince]]
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Creator ||
With [[Ghostscript]], many Linux apps can print or export to PDF.,
[[OpenOffice.org]],
[[kprint]] -- can fax, convert to pdf, and combine pages
|}

== Utilities ==
{|
! Windows apps !! Linux apps
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[Arson]],
[[Eroaster]],
[[gcombust]],
[[K3b]],
[[XCDRoast]],
[[serpentine]]
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[http://man.linuxquestions.org/?query=mount mount]
|-
| Edit (DOS) ||
[[vi]],
[[ne]],
[[pico]],
[[nano]],
[[Emacs]],
[[Minimum Profit]]
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]],
[[g4u]],
[[Mondo]]
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[QTparted]], [[GParted]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad ||
[[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [[Leafpad]], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], [[Beaver]]
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec ||
[[BackupPC]], [[Bacula]], [[Veritas Netbackup]]
|-
| Disclib ||
[[gWhere]]
|}

== Server ==
{|
! Windows apps !! Linux apps
|-
| IIS ||
[[Apache]], [[Zeus]], [[iPlanet]], [[thttpd]], [[iServer]]
|-
| Other server stuff ||
[[Samba]]
|-
| FTP ||
[[proftpd]], [[vsftpd]], [[pure-ftpd]]
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]]
[[zimbra]]
[[Open-Xchange]]
|}

== Other ==
{|
! Windows apps !! Linux apps


|-
| SPSS ||
[[R-project]],
[[PSPP]]
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|-
| DemoStudio(GPL) ||
[[vnc2swf]], [[rafb.net]]
|-
| Endnote ||
[[Pybliographer]]
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus ||
[[ClamAV]]
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]]
|-
| µBook, Ice Book Reader||
[[PyBookReader]], [[Kniga]]
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

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User:Odalcet

2004-07-21T17:17:49Z

Odalcet:

Pagina Wiki de Odalcet, creada el miercoles 21 de Julio de 2004, a la 1:15 de la tarde.

Me parece que el tamaño de la fuente es muy grande. Como puedo cambiarla?

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Linux software equivalent to Windows software

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