人类有个先入为主的习惯,很多是都证明了这一点。当然了我们使用电脑也不例外了。
从初中开始接住电脑就看到的是windows95,到了大学才看到用同学在玩Linux,当时就的那东西真的很新奇。后来自己也在自己的电脑上装了个Red Hat 9.0可是没有一星期酒吧它给格了,应为用很多在window习惯用的软件在Linux上找不到(后来才知道是自己他孤陋寡闻了)。这就是应为我刚开始接住的就是windows,用它已经习惯了。所以如果要打算开始学新一个新的东西,那就要想办法用新的东西来代替原来已经习惯的东西---在新的东西里面找到就的东西并且习惯它,这样就可以反客为主了。所以我就要找到这样的对照表:
描述程序,执行任务 | Windows | Linux |
1) 网络软件. | ||
Web 浏览器 | Internet Explorer, Netscape / Mozilla, Opera [Prop], Firefox,maxthon | 1) Netscape / Mozilla. 2) Galeon. 3) Konqueror. 4) Opera. 5) Firefox. 6) Nautilus. 7) Epiphany. 8) Links. 9) Dillo. 10) Encompass. |
命令行下的Web浏览器 | 1) Lynx 2) Xemacs + w3. |
1) Links. 2) ELinks. 3) Lynx. 4) w3m. 5) Xemacs + w3. |
Email 客户端 | Outlook Express, Netscape / Mozilla, Thunderbird, The Bat, Eudora, Becky, Sylpheed / Claws Mail, Opera,foxmail | 1) Evolution. 2) Netscape / Mozilla/Thunderbird messenger. 3) Sylpheed / Claws Mail. 4) Kmail. 5) Gnus. 6) Balsa. 7) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 8) Arrow. 9) Gnumail. 10) Althea. 11) Liamail. 12) Aethera. 13) Opera. |
Email 客户端像Outlook | Outlook | 1) Evolution. 2) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 3) Aethera. 4) Sylpheed. 5) Claws Mail |
Email 客户端像The Bat | The Bat | 1) Sylpheed. 2) Claws Mail 3) Kmail. 4) Gnus. 5) Balsa. |
命令行下的Email客户端 | Mutt [de], Pine, Pegasus, Emacs | 1) Pine. [NF] 2) Mutt. 3) Gnus. 4) Elm. 5) Emacs. |
新闻阅读器 | 1) Agent [Prop] 2) Free Agent 3) Xnews 4) Outlook 5) Netscape / Mozilla 6) Opera [Prop] 7) Sylpheed / Claws Mail 8) Dialog 9) Gravity 10) BNR2 |
1) Knode. 2) Pan. 3) NewsReader. 4) Netscape / Mozilla Thunderbird. 5) Opera [Prop] 6) Sylpheed / Claws Mail. Console: 7) Pine. [NF] 8) Mutt. 9) Gnus. 10) tin. 11) slrn. 12) Xemacs. 13) BNR2. |
通讯录 | Outlook | 1) Rubrica |
文件下载 | Flashget, Go!zilla, Reget, Getright, DAP, Wget, WackGet, Mass Downloader,迅雷 | 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. |
整站下载 | Teleport Pro, Httrack, Wget, ... | 1) Httrack. |
FTP客户端 | Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP, WSFTP, SmartFTP, FileZilla, FlashFXP,LeapFTP | 1) Gftp. 2) Konqueror. 3) KBear. 4) IglooFTP. [Prop] 5) Nftp. 6) Wxftp. 7) AxyFTP. 8) mc. (cd ftp://...) 9) tkFTP. 10) Yafc. 11) Dpsftp. (dead project) |
命令行下的ftp客户端 | FTP in Far, ftp.exe, Ncftp | 1) Ncftp. 2) Lftp. 3) Avfs. (From any program: /#ftp:...) |
IRC客户端 | Mirc, Klient, VIRC, Xircon, Pirch, XChat,Mirc IRC | 1) Xchat. |
本地网络聊天工具 | 1) QuickChat 5)飞鸽传书 2) Akeni 3) PonyChat 4) iChat |
1) talk (console), ktalk. 2) Akeni. 3) Echat. 4) write, wall (chat between users of one machine) |
本地送信与Windows机器 | WinPopUp | smbclient (console). GUI: 1) LinPopUp 2. 2) Kpopup. 3) Kopete. |
Instant Messaging clients | ICQ Lite, ICQ Corp, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ... Trillian ICQ (freeware, can replace all common IM clients), Miranda, Pidgin,QQ,TM, |
1) Licq (ICQ). 22)Eva 23)LumaQQ |
Jabber IM clients | JAJC, Tkabber (+activestate tcl), Psi, Exodus, WinJab, myJabber, RhymBox, Rival, Skabber, TipicIM, Vista, Yabber, Miranda, Pidgin., Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition | 1) Tkabber. 2) Gabber. 3) Psi. 4) Pidgin.. 5) Centericq (console). 6) Ayttm. 7) Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition. |
检测站点和邮箱,显示头条新闻,或全部文 | WatzNew | 1) Web Secretary. 2) Knewsticker & korn. 3) Mozilla (???). 4) watch -n seconds lynx -dump |
视频会议 | NetMeeting | 1) GnomeMeeting (Ekiga Now). |
语音通信 | Speak Freely | 1) Speak Freely for Unix. |
Firewall (packet filtering) | BlackICE, ATGuard, ZoneAlarm, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, WinRoute Pro, Norton Internet Security, Sygate Personal Firewall PRO, Kerio Personal Firewall, ... | 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] 4) Kerio Personal Firewall |
1) Snort. 2) Portsentry / Hostsentry / Logsentry. 3) Tripwire [GPL]. 4) Tripwall. 5) AIDE. 6) ViperDB. 7) Integrit. 8) Cerberus Intrusion Detection System. 9) MIDAS NMS. |
Port scanning detection | ??? | 1) Pkdump. |
Making the system more securely | ??? | 1) Bastille. 2) Linux Security Auditing Tool. |
Visual route | VisualRoute [Prop] | 1) Xtraceroute. 2) VisualRoute. [Prop] 3) Mtr. 4) Geotrace. |
Content (ad / popup) filtering | Proxomitron, ATGuard, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, Privoxy, MS ISA server, Guidescope, ... | 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) CBQ (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 (p2p) | Morpheus (Gnutella), WinMX, Napster, KaZaA (Fasttrack), eDonkey [Prop], eMule, TheCircle, Bittorrent, SoulSeek, Direct Connect | 1) Mldonkey. (eDonkey, Soulseek, Fasttrack, Gnutella, Open Napster, Direct Connect, BitTorrent) 2) LimeWire. (Gnutella) 3) Lopster. (OpenNAP) 4) Gnapster. (OpenNAP) 5) eDonkey. (eDonkey) [Prop] 6) cDonkey. (eDonkey) 7) Gift client / server / fasttrack plugin (Fasttrack) 8) ed2k_gui. 9) Gtk-Gnutella. (Gnutella) 10) Qtella. (Gnutella) 11) Mutella. (Gnutella, console) 12) TheCircle. 13) Freenet. (fully anonymous p2p) 14) GNUnet. 15) Lmule. (eDonkey) 16) Xmule. (eDonkey) 17) Bittorrent. 18) PySoulSeek (Soulseek). 19) Loophole. (WinMX) [Prop] 20) Direct Connect. 21) QuickDC. (Direct Connect). 22) OverNet. 23) Apollon. 24) GrapeWine. (fully anonymous p2p) 25) Snark. (Bittorrent) 26) Sancho (mldonkey frontend) 27) ktorrent 28) azureus |
"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. [Prop, 99$] 3) mgetty + voice + sendfax. 4) vgetty. |
Work with faxes | WinFax | 1) HylaFax. 2) Fax2Send. [Prop] 3) Efax. 4) VSI-FAX. [Prop] |
Dialup | Vdialer, etc | 1) Kppp. 2) X-isp. 3) wvdial. (Front ends: X-wvdial, kvdial, gtkdial). 4) Gppp. 5) Kinternet. 6) Rp3. 7) pppconfig + pon + poff. 8) Modem Lights. 9) Netcount. (console) |
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 | 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. |
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. [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 (VoIP) | Buddyphone [Prop], Cisco SoftPhone, Skype | 1) GNU Bayonne. 2) Openh323. 3) OpenPhone. 4) tkPhone. 5) NauPhone. 6) Twinkle 7) Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) 8) Gizmo [NF?] (win+mac version also) 9) Kphone 11) Linphone 12) Skype [NF] |
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) RASPPPOE | 1) rp-pppoe. 2) Pptp client. |
Distributed computing | All projects. |
All projects. 1) Distributed.net. 2) Seti @ Home. 3) Folding @ Home. 4) Genome @ Home. 5) D2ol. * Some versions for Linux run only in console mode. |
IPSEC protocol | - | FreeSWAN. |
VRML viewer and editor | ??? |
1) White Dune. |
Work with Ebay | ??? | 1) Bidwatcher. |
2) Work with files. | ||
File manager in FAR and NC style | FAR, Norton Commander, Disco Commander, Volcov 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. 9) Worker. |
File manager in Windows style | Windows Explorer / Internet Explorer | 1) Konqueror. 2) Gnome-Commander. 3) Nautilus. 4) Endeavour Mark II. 5) XWC. |
Visual Shell | ??? | 1) vshnu: the New Visual Shell. |
Quick viewing of local HTML documents | 1) Internet Explorer 2) Microsoft Document Explorer |
1) Dillo. (Russian language patches - here). 2) Konqueror. 3) Nautilus. 4) Lynx / Links. |
Viewing all operations with files | Filemon | Filemon. |
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 4) WinACE 5) UltimateZip |
1) Ark (kdeutils). |
Console archivers | arj, rar, zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, lha... | 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. 9) CAB Extract 10) 7-zip . |
Program for files and directories comparison | 1) Beyond Compare. 2) Araxis Merge. 3) WinMerge 4) Minimalist GNU For Windows (diff.exe) 5) Unison 6) kdiff3 |
1) Mgdiff. |
Batch file renaming | Plugins to TotalCommander, ... | 1) GPRename. (Perl-based) 2) Plugins for MC (???) |
3) Desktop / System software. | ||
Text editor | Notepad, WordPad, TextPad, Vim, Xemacs, ... | 1) Kedit (KDE). |
Console text editor | 1) Vim 2) Emacs 3) Editor from FAR, editor from DN, ... |
1) Vim. |
Multi-purpose text and source code editor | SciTE, UltraEdit, MultiEdit, Vim, Xemacs, ... | 1) Kate (KDE). |
Text editor with cyrillic encodings support | Bred, Rpad32, Aditor, Vim, Xemacs | 1) Kate (KDE). |
Viewing PostScript | 1) RoPS |
1) GhostView. 2) Kghostview. 3) GV. 4) GGV. |
Viewing PDF | 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller 2) GhostView |
1) Adobe Reader. [Prop] 2) Xpdf. 3) GV. 4) GGV. 5) GhostView. 6) Kghostview. 7) Kpdf |
Creating PDF | 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller 2) GhostView 3) Ghostscript 4) Openoffice.org |
1) Any Linux WYSIWYG program -> print to file -> ps2pdf. (Here's an article about this). 2) Adobe Acrobat Distiller. [Prop] 3) PStill. [Shareware] 4) PDFLatex. 5) Xfig. 6) Ghostscript. 7) Tex2Pdf. 8) Reportlab. 9) GV. 10) GGV. 11) GhostView. 12) Kghostview. 13) Panda PDF Generator. 14) Openoffice.org. |
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. 4) OCRopus. |
Translators (cyrillic) | Promt, Socrat | Ksocrat (???) |
Eng-rus dictionaries (cyrillic) | 1) ABBYY Lingvo 2) Socrat 3) JaLingvo 4) phpMyLingvo |
1) Mueller. 2) Ksocrat. 3) JaLingvo. 4) phpMyLingvo. 5) dict+Kdict. 6) DictX. 7) Groan. 8) Mova. 9) Slowo. 10) Stardict. |
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. [Prop] 2) Trend ServerProtect. [Prop] 3) RAV Antivirus. [Prop] (Bought by Microsoft?) 4) OpenAntivirus + AMaViS / VirusHammer. 5) F-Prot. [Prop] 6) Sophie / Trophie. 7) Clam Antivirus. 8) Kaspersky. [Prop] 9) YAVR. |
System configuration | Control Panel, Msconfig, RegEdit, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, Config NT, ... | 1) setup (Red Hat). |
Boot managers | System Commander, PowerQuest Boot Magic, GAG, ... | 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. 10) GAG. |
Hard disk partitions manager | 1) PowerQuest Partition Magic [Prop] 2) Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop] 3) Paragon Partition Manager [Prop] 4) Partition Commander [Prop] |
1) PartGUI. (GUI for partimage and parted) |
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. |
Task manager | TaskMan (standard), TaskInfo, ProcessExplorer NT. | 1) top (console, standard). 2) Gtop, Ktop. 3) Ksysguard. 4) "ps aux|more", "kill |
Automatic switch between English and Russian when you type | Punto Switcher, Keyboard Ninja, Snoop | XNeur |
Mouse gestures | Sensiva | 1) Kgesture. 2) wayV. 3) Optimoz. |
TV program | ??? | Home Portal. |
Text to speech | MS text to speech | 1) KDE Voice Plugins. 2) Festival. 3) Emacspeak. 4) VoiceText. |
Speech recognition | ViaVoice, DragonNaturally Speaking | Yes, there are no usable speech recognition packages. But: 1) Sphinx. 2) ViaVoice. (almost dead...) |
Stream text processing | 1) Minimalist GNU For Windows (sed.exe) 2) perl |
1) sed, awk. 2) perl. |
PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view | TreePad [Prop], Leo, CueCards | 1) TreePad Lite. [Prop] 2) Yank. 3) TreeLine. 4) Gjots. 5) Leo. 6) Hnb - hierarchical notebook. 7) TuxCards. |
Program for quick switching between resolutions and frequencies | Integrated with system, comes on CD with video card | 1) Multires. |
Search and replace text in files | 1) Integrated with system 2) Indexing service 3) HTMLChanger 4) Any file manager |
1) find (console, standard). 2) slocate (console, standard). GUI: 1) Gsearchtool. 2) Kfind. 3) Any file manager |
Local search engine with SGBD for indexing | 1) Indexing service (???) |
1) mnoGoSearch. |
System monitoring | System monitor (built-in) | 1) top (console, standard). 2) Gkrellm. 3) Ksysguard. 4) Survivor. 5) "Hot-babe". (If you can be shocked by nudity, don't use it :). 6) htop |
Program for logs viewing | Event Viewer (built-in) | 1) Xlogmaster. |
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. |
Alarm clock | MindIt! | 1) KAlarm. |
Work with Palm | Palm Desktop | 1) Kpilot. 2) Jpilot. |
Allows to carry on Palm .html files | iSilo | 1) iSilo. 2) Plucker. |
Low-level optimization (chipset, pci-bus) |
Powertweak | 1) Powertweak-Linux. |
Bible | On-Line Bible, The SWORD | 1) BibleTime (KDE) 2) Gnomesword (Gnome) |
Convenient mouse scrolling | Mouse Imp | ??? |
Automatic change of desktop background | ??? | 1) Background Buddy. |
Convenient switching of the keyboard language | ??? | 1) GSwitchIt. |
Windows registry editor | RegEdit | Kregedit :). |
4.1) Multimedia (audio / CD). | ||
Useful links: | - | Linux MIDI & Sound Applications - many links and resources. Sound Software - lots of it. |
Music / mp3 / ogg players | 1) Winamp |
1) XMMS (X multimedia system). 2) Noatun. 3) Zinf. (former Freeamp) 4) Winamp. 5) Xamp. 6) GQmpeg. 7) SnackAmp. 8) Mplayer. (Frontend: Kplayer). 9) Xine. (Frontends: Sinek, Totem) 10) Amarok |
Console music / mp3 / ogg players | mpg123, dosamp, Mplayer | 1) Cplayer. |
Programs for CD/DVD burning with GUI | Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator, ... | 1) K3b. 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. 13) CD-Me (Creation of audio-CD). 14) Nero [Prop] |
CD player | CD player, Winamp, Windows Media 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) 11) BeboCD. |
Slowing the rotation of CD | Slowcd, Cdslow | 1) mount -o speed= 2) hdparm -E 3) eject -x 4) cdspeed. |
CD ripping / grabbing | 1) Cdex 2) MusicMatch 3) Streambox Ripper 4) Audiocatalyst 5) WinDac 6) Audiograbber 7) Media Box Audio / Video Workstation 8) CD-Copy 9) Blaze Media Pro 10) Real Jukebox 11) Windows Media Player 12) Nero 13) VirtualDrive 14) VirtualCD 15) Audacity |
1) Grip. 2) Audacity. 3) RipperX. 4) tkcOggRipper. 5) A Better CD Encoder. 6) cdda2wav. 7) Gnome Toaster. 8) Cdparanoia. 9) Cd2mp3. 10) Dagrab. 11) SimpleCDR-X. 12) RatRip. 13) AutoRip. 14) Sound Juicer. |
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 | 1) Lame |
1) Lame. 2) Bladeenc. 3) NotLame. 4) L3enc. [Prop] 5) gogo. |
OGG encoders | oggenc | oggenc. |
Work with Real protocol | 1) RealPlayer. [Prop] 2) Mplayer + libraries. |
1) RealPlayer. [Prop] 2) Mplayer + libraries. 3) ReMedial. |
Radio | VC Radio, FMRadio, Digband Radio | 1) xradio. 2) cRadio. 3) Xmradio. 4) RDJ. 5) RadioActive. 6) XMMS-FMRadio. 7) Gqradio. 8) Qtradio. 9) streamtuner |
Audio editors | SoundForge, Cooledit, Audacity, ... | 1) Glame. 2) Rezound. 3) Sweep. 4) WaveForge. 5) Sox. 6) Audacity. 7) GNUSound. 8) Ecasound. 9) SoundStudio. 10) mhWaveEdit. |
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. |
Software for music notation | 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. |
Synthesizer | Virtual waves, Csound | 1) Csound. |
ID3-Tag Editors | Mp3tag | 1) EasyTAG. |
Guitar/Instrument Tuning software | 1) In-Tune Multi-Instrument Tuner 2) Digital Guitar Tuner |
??? |
Record streaming audio into .MP3 files | Twins Stream Ripper | Stream Ripper. |
4.2) Multimedia (graphics). | ||
Graphic files viewer | 1) ACDSee 2) IrfanView 3) Xnview 4) CompuPic [Prop] 5) Windows Fax and Image viewer 5) Any web browser |
1) Xnview. |
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. 6) Graphtool. |
Powerful graphic editor in PhotoShop style | 1) Adobe Photoshop [Prop] 2) Gimp 3) Paint Shop Pro [Prop] 4) Pixel32 [Prop] 5) Corel PhotoPaint [Prop] 6) Macromedia Fireworks |
1) Gimp. |
Programs for work with vector graphics | Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, AutoSketch, OpenOffice Draw | 1) Inkscape |
SVG editor | WebDraw [Prop] | 1) Inkscape |
SVG viewer | 1) Squiggle 2) X-Smiles 3) SVG support in Mozilla |
1) Squiggle. |
Program for text decoration | Wordart, OpenOffice Draw | 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. [Prop] 3) Plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (download here or here). |
Flash creation | Macromedia Flash | 1) DrawSWF. |
3D-graphics | 3D Studio MAX, Maya [Prop], Povray, ... | 1) Blender. 2) Maya. [Prop] 3) KPovModeler. 4) K3Studio. 5) Moonlight. 6) GIG3DGO. 7) Povray. 8) MegaPov. 9) K3D. 10) Wings 3D. 11) Softimage XSI. [Prop] 12) Kludge3d. |
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. |
Create printed calendars, greeting cards, etc., with clip art collection | Broderbund Print Shop | ??? |
Download pictures from digital camera | Polaroid Drivers | 1) Camera Tool (gtkam) |
4.3) Multimedia (video and other) | ||
Video / mpeg4 players | 1) BSplayer |
1) Mplayer. (Frontend: Kplayer). |
Console video / mpeg4 players | QuickView | 1) Mplayer. |
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, Mencoder (from Mplayer) | 1) Drip. |
Simple video creation and editing | Windows Movie Maker | 1) iMira Editing. [Prop] 2) MainActor. [Prop] 3) Broadcast 2000. 4) Avidemux. |
Professional video production enviroment | Adobe Premiere, Media Studio Pro | 1) iMira Editing. 2) Cinelerra. 3) MainActor. 4) Broadcast 2000. 5) Lives. 6) CinePaint. 7) Heroine Virtual. |
Cutting video | Virtual Dub | 1) Avidemux. 2) Kino. |
Converting video | Virtual Dub, Mencoder (from Mplayer) | 1) Transcode. |
Work with TV-tuner / watch TV | AVerTV, PowerVCR 3.0, CinePlayer DVR, Mplayer, ... | 1) Tvtime. 2) Kwintv. 3) Xawtv. 4) Zapping. 5) GnomeTV. 6) Mplayer. 7) Xawdecode. |
Work with TV-tuner in console | - | 1) Mplayer. 2) fbtv. 3) aatv. |
Work with QuickTime format | QuickTime Player | 1) QuickTime. 2) Mplayer + Sorenson codec. 3) OpenQuicktime. 4) Xanim. |
Creation of 2D and 3D effects | Adobe After Effects | 1) Shake. [Proprietary, $129.95] |
Animation | Animation Shop, ... | 1) CinePaint. |
Landscape / terrain generation | Bryce | Terraform. |
World construction | World Construction Set, Animatek World Builder |
??? |
Framework for developing video applications | ??? | 1) Gstreamer. |
5) Office/business. | ||
Office suite | MS Office, StarOffice / OpenOffice, 602Software,Redoffice,永中office | 1) OpenOffice. |
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, Abiword,永中office,Redoffice | 1) Abiword. 2) TextMaker [Prop] 3) WordPerfect. 4) Ted. 5) StarOffice / OpenOffice Writer. 6) Kword. 7) LyX. 8) Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment). |
Spreadsheets | Excel, StarOffice / OpenOffice Calc, 602Tab,Redoffice,永中office | 1) Gnumeric. 5)Redoffice,永中office |
Graphing / charting data | Excel, MicroCall Origin,Redoffice,永中office | 1) Kivio. |
Creating presentations | MS PowerPoint, StarOffice Presentation, OpenOffice Impress,Redoffice,永中office | 1) StarOffice Presentation. 6)永中office,Redoffice,ThinkFree Office |
Local database | MS Access, InterBase6, OpenOffice + MySQL. | 1) KNoda. |
Receiving the quotings, news, building graphs and analysing of the financial market. | Omega Research Trade Station 2000 | 1) The Market Analysis System (MAS) |
Software for e-commerce and web business | 1) Weblogic [Prop] 2) IBM WebSphere Application Server [Prop] 3) iPlanet 4) osCommerce 5) JOnAS 6) COCOON |
1) Weblogic. [Prop] 2) JBoss. 3) IBM WebSphere Application Server. [Prop] 4) osCommerce. 5) JOnAS. 6) COCOON. |
Personal finances manager | 1) MS Money 2) Quicken 3) Moneydance [Prop] |
1) GNUcash. |
Project management | MS Project, Project Expert 7 | 1) Mr Project. |
Financial accounting package (global) |
??? | 1) Hansa Business Solutions. [Prop] 2) Quickbooks. |
Financial accounting package (russian) |
"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 (russian) | "1C: Enterprise" | 1) Keeper. [Prop] 2) Oblik. [Prop] 3) IceB. 4) Compiere. |
ERP/CRM (english) | ??? | 1) Compiere. 2) Dolibarr. 3) Tutos. |
ERP/CRM (russian) | "BOSS-Corporation" | 1) NauRP. 2) Compiere. 3) Dolibarr. |
Corporate docflow system (russian). | 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". 4) Ksirtet. |
- | Standard Windows games | 1) Kdegames. |
- | Mines | 1) KMines. 2) Perlmines. 3) Dmines. |
- | Civilization | FreeCiv. |
- | Civilization: Call to Power | Civilization: Call to Power. |
- | Sid Meyer Alpha Centauri | Sid Meyer Alpha Centauri. |
- | Sim City 3000 | Sim City 3000. |
- | 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. 2) QuakeForge. 3) DarkPlaces. |
1) Quake 1, 2, 3. 2) QuakeForge. 3) DarkPlaces. |
- | CounterStrike | CounterStrike under WineX. |
- | Urban Terror | Urban Terror. |
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, GL Heretic. |
Hexen | 1) jHexen / Doomsday. 2) Vavoom. 3) Original Hexen. |
1) Hexen/SDL. 2) Vavoom. |
- | Heretic 2 |
Heretic 2. |
- | Return to Castle Wolfenstein | Return to Castle Wolfenstein. [Prop] |
- | Descent | Descent. |
- | Never Winter Nights | Never Winter Nights. |
- | Unreal Tournament / Unreal Tournament 2003 | Unreal Tournament / Unreal Tournament 2003. |
- | Soldier Of Fortune | Soldier Of Fortune. |
- | Tribes 2 | Tribes 2. |
- | Blood 1 | Qblood. |
- | Worms | Nil. |
- | Lines | 1) GtkBalls. |
- | 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 | 1) Microsoft VisualStudio .net 2) Emacs, XEmacs 3) Vim + ctags + scripts from vim.sf.net 4) Boa Constructor 5) PythonCard |
1) CodeForge. |
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). |
Object Pascal IDE | Delphi | 1) Kylix. [Prop] (Kylix Personal Edition is free). 2) Lazarus + FPC. |
Pascal | Pascal, BP | 1) Freepascal. 2) GNU Pascal (gpc). 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 | 1) WinDbg |
gdb. Frontends: 1) ddd. 2) xxgdb, mxgdb. 3) CGDB. 4) Vim scripts. 5) [X]Emacs C-mode. 6) KMD. 7) NANA. (Library) |
WYSIWYG html editor | 1) Macromedia Dreamweaver 2) MS Frontpage 3) Netscape / Mozilla Composer 4) Openoffice HTML editor |
1) Netscape / Mozilla Composer. 2) Openoffice HTML editor. 3) Amaya. 4) GINF (Ginf is not Frontpage) 5) IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder. [Prop] 6) JXHTMLEDIT (Java). |
Powerful editor for site creating, contains set of samples and can be complemented with every sort and kind of plug-ins | Dreamweaver Ultradev | ??? |
HTML / DHTML editor | HomeSite, Coffeecup | 1) Quanta Plus. 2) Bluefish. 3) WebMaker. 4) Screem. 5) Toppage. 6) WebDesigner. 7) ScriptEditor. 8) August. 9) Coffeecup / Linux. 10) FCKeditor. |
HTML / DHTML editor | Arachnofilia | Arachnofilia. [Prop] |
XML Editor | XML Spy [Prop] | 1) XMLMind XML Editor. 2) Vim. 3) Emacs. |
Perl/Python/Tcl IDE | ??? | 1) Komodo. [Prop] |
Java IDE | JBuilder, IDEA | Link: Java Tools for Linux. 1) Jbuilder. 2) NetBeans. 3) Eclipse. 4) Sun ONE Studio. [formerly Forte] 5) Vide. |
J2EE based application server | ??? | 1) JBoss. |
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. [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 | 1) IBAccess 2) IBAdmin [prop] 3) IBWebAdmin (apache / php) |
Visual Basic | Visual Basic | 1) 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. |
Source code documentation system | ??? | 1) Doxygen. 2) CWEB. |
Memory leak tracing | 1) Numega Bounds Checker 2) Rational Purify |
1) MallocDebug. 2) Valgrind. 3) Kcachegrind. 4) ElectricFence. 5) dmalloc. 6) ccmalloc. 7) LeakTracer. 8) 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. 2) JUnit. (Java) |
Software projecting | 1) Rational Rose 2) Enterprise Architec 3) Visio |
??? |
Game programming | 1) DirectX 2) libSDL 3) ClanLib |
1) libSDL 2) ClanLib |
Everything needed for work with XML Schemas, DTD, XSL/XSLT, SOAP, WSDL (edit, debug, check, etc) |
1) Altova XMLSpy Suite |
??? |
Source code -> HTML-document with highlighted syntax | ??? | 1) Webcpp. |
Bug Tracking System |
??? |
1) Bugzilla. |
Object Request Broker (ORB) | 1) ORBIT | 1) ORBIT. |
Portability |
??? |
1) Autoconf, Automake & Libtool. |
Source code indexer and cross-referencer | ??? | 1) GNU GLOBAL. 2) LXR. |
Dynamic tracer of system calls |
??? |
1) Syscalltrack. |
XML C parser | 1) libxml (???) | 1) Libxml2. |
FoxPro |
Visual FoxPro |
qwerty |
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] 10) Thy. |
FTP-server | Internet Information Server, ServU, War FTP, BulletProof FTP server, FileZilla server, ... | 1) pure-ftpd. 2) vsftpd. 3) wu-ftpd. 4) proftpd. 5) gl-ftpd. 6) ftp. 7) PublicFile. 8) Teepeedee. |
Language for Web-development | PHP | PHP. |
Language for Web-development | Perl | Perl. |
Language for Web-development | ASP | ASP module for Apache. |
Database engine | MS SQL, MySQL | 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. [Prop] |
Database engine | Oracle | 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. |
Email / PIM / Groupware server | Microsoft Exchange | 1) CommuniGate Pro. [Prop] 2) Bynari's Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 3) Samsung Contact. [Prop] 4) Teamware Office. [Prop] 5) Novell Netmail. [Prop] 6) Amphora. (Zope / Qmail). 7) Tutos. (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. 11) SCOoffice Mail Server. [Prop] (SCO - m.d. :). 12) LinuXchangE. 13) OpenOffice.org Groupware Project. (New!) 14) Tiki CMS/Groupware. (Apache / PHP / Mysql). |
Mail filter / spam killer | cygwin+Exim port | 1) SpamAssassin. 2) Procmail. 3) Mailfilter. 4) 褃rus-imap. 5) Exim. 6) POPFile. |
Mail downloader | MDaemon | Fetchmail. |
??? | Lotus Domino | Lotus Domino. [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 and JSP, can work with Apache | Tomcat | Tomcat. |
Advanced server statistics | 1) AWStats | 1) AWStats. (All web-, ftp-, proxy-, mail-, wap- and streaming-servers). 2) ANALOG. (Web-server). |
Cluster of servers | ??? | 1) LVS - The Linux Virtual Server. |
Cluster filesystems | 1) GFS 2) ADIC |
1) GFS. 2) OpenGFS. 3) Lustre. (not SAN compatible?) 4) Matrix Server. [Prop] 5) CXFS. 6) GPFS. 7) Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS). 8) Coda. 9) Intermezzo. 10) Convolo cluster. 11) ADIC. |
Web Mail | ??? | 1) IMP. 2) CAMAS. (for Caudium web-server). |
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. [FTP] 2) Octave. (+ Gnuplot) 3) Scilab. 4) R. 5) Yorick. 6) rlab. 7) Yacas. 8) Euler. |
Math system in Mathematica style | Mathematica | 1) Mathematica. [Prop] 2) Maxima. 3) MuPad. 4) NumExp. 5) Mathomatic. |
Math system in Maple style | Maple | 1) Maple. [Prop] 2) Maxima. 3) MuPad. |
Equation / math editor | Mathtype, MS Equation Editor, OpenOffice Math | 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 | 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 | SolidEdge (part of more powerful package Unigraphics). |
Engineering | ANSYS | ANSYS. |
CAD/CAM/CAE | AutoCAD, Microstation, ArchiCAD | 1) Varkon. 2) Linuxcad. [Prop, ~100$] 3) Varicad. [Prop] 4) Cycas. [Prop] 5) Tomcad. 6) Thancad. 7) Fandango (alpha-version). 8) Lignumcad. 9) Giram. 10) Jcad. 11) QSCad. 12) FreeEngineer. 13) Ocadis. 14) PythonCAD. 15) OpenCascade. |
CAD/CAM/CAE, simplified | AutoCAD Lite | 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. 7) Poseidon for UML. [Prop & free versions] 8) JGraph + JGraphPad. (Java) |
Geographic image processing software | Erdas Imagine, ER Mapper, ENVI | ENVI. |
GIS (Geographical information system) | ArcView | All projects: FreeGIS Project. 1) Grass. 2) Quantum GIS. 3) PostGIS. 4) FreeGIS. 5) MapQuest. 6) MapBlast. |
Interactive Geographic Data Viewer | 1) Thuban. | 1) Thuban. |
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, SalStat | Many links - here. |
Econometrics Software | Eviews, Gretl | 1) Gretl. |
Emulation of the circuit | 1) Electronic Workbench 2) Altera MaxPlus+ |
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 | 1) PCAD 2) OrCad 3) Visio |
1) Eagle. 2) Geda. |
The oscilloscope emulation | Winoscillo | Xoscope. |
Measurement of the temperature and voltages on motherboard | MBMonitor, PCAlert, Speedfan | 1) KSensors. |
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, IOzone | 1) hdparm. |
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 |
1) OmegaT. |
Catalog of educational software | - |
1) SchoolForge. 2) Seul / EDU. |
Designing and viewing DTDs | NearFar Designer [Prop] |
??? |
Finity Element Analysis |
- |
1) FELT (Finity Element Analysis) |
10) Emulators. | ||
Virtual machine emulator | 1) VMWare [Prop] 2) Connectix Virtual PC [Prop] |
1) VMWare. [Prop] 2) Win4Lin. [Prop, $89]. 3) Bochs. 4) Plex86. 5) User Mode Linux. 6) QEMU 7) VirtualBox |
Linux emulator | 1) CygWin. |
1) User Mode Linux. |
X Window System (XFree) emulator | XFree under CygWin. | - |
Windows emulator | - | 1) Wine. (GUI: gwine, tkwine) 2) Transgaming WineX. (GUI: tqgui) [NF] 3) Crossover Office. |
DOS emulator | - | 1) DOSBox. 2) Dosemu. |
Sony PlayStation emulator | ePSXe, ... | 1) ePSXe. |
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) MAME. 2) Xmame / Xmess. 3) Advancemame. Frontends: advancemenu. ckmame. flynn. gmame. gnomame. grok. grustibus. gxmame. it. it's quit. fancy. kmamerun. kmamu. qmamecat. startxmame. setcleaner. tkmame. |
ST emulator | 1) Steem. |
1) StonX. 2) Steem. |
C64 emulator | ??? | 1) Vice. 2) Frodo. |
Amiga emulator | ??? |
1) UAE. 2) WinUAE. |
Mac 68k emulator | ??? | 1) Basilisk II. |
Game boy emulator | 1) Visual Boy Advance |
1) Visual Boy Advance. 2) VGBA. (GUI: vgb-gui) |
Atari 2600 Video Computer System emulator | 1) Stella |
1) Stella. 2) Saint. |
NES / SNES 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/DVD without installing (Live CD) | 1) Windows PE. 2) PE Builder. |
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. 17) Kurumin (Brazilian Portuguese only) 18) Ubuntu Live 19) ALT Linux Live |
Boot rescue/tools diskette | Windows system diskette | 1) Linux system diskette. 2) Tomsrtbt. 3) BanShee Linux. 4) RIP. |
Creation of LiveCD for system recovery | ??? | 1) Make CD-ROM Recovery. |
File systems | FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ... | Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, ... |
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. |
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. |
Multiple workspaces | - | Yes!!! :). |
Fast users / desktop switching | Windows XP feature for non- networked computers | 1) Ctrl+Alt+F1, login as new user at command-line interface, start GUI by entering command startx - - :1. Switch between screens using Ctrl+Alt+F7 or F8 depending on user. 2) Command "gdmflexiserver -n". 3) Built-in in KDE 3.1. |
Flavors of the system | 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 and scripting | 1) command.com :). 2) cmd.exe 3) Windows Scripting Host 4) 4DOS / 4NT 5) Minimalist GNU For Windows 6) Unix tools for Windows (AT&T) 7) KiXtart 8) ScriptLogic [Prop] |
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. 6)Ourlinux 7)Linuxer |
- | 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". The book: "Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman" |