Windows Linux alternatyvos

Networking

Description	Windows	Mandriva Linux
Web Browser	Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Opera, Lynx, etc.	Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Konqueror, Opera, Nautilus, Galeon, Epiphany, Lynx
E-mail	Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, Mozilla Thunderbird, The Bat, Eudora, Becky, Datula, Sylpheed Claws Mail, Opera	Evolution, Netscape, Mozilla Thunderbird, Sylpheed Claws Mail, Kmail, Gnus, Balsa, Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite, Arrow, Gnumail, Althea, Liamail, Aethera, MailWarrior, Opera
E-mail, Console	Mutt, Pine, Pegasus, Emacs	Pine, Mutt, Gnus, Elm, Emacs
News reader	1) Agent, Free Agent, Xnews, Outlook, Netscape Mozilla, Opera, Sylpheed Claws Mail, Dialog, Gravity, BNR2	Knode, Pan, NewsReader, Netscape Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera, Sylpheed Claws Mail Console:Pine, Mutt, Gnus, tin, slrn, Xemacs, BNR2
Contact Manager	Outlook	Rubrica, KAddressBook, Evolution
Download Manager	Flashget, Go!zilla, Reget, Getright, DAP, Wget, WackGet, Mass Downloader, Teleport Pro, Httrack, Wget, etc.	Downloader for X, Caitoo, Prozilla, Wget, Kmago, Gnome Transfer Manager, QTget, Xget, Aria2, Axel, Download Accelerator Plus, GetLeft, Lftp.
FTP Clients	Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP, WSFTP, SmartFTP, FileZilla	Gftp, FileZilla, Konqueror, KBear, IglooFTP, Nftp, Wxftp, AxyFTP, Midnight Commander (cd ftp://…), tkFTP, Yafc
IRC Clients	Mirc, Klient, VIRC, Xircon, Pirch, XChat	Konversation, Quassel, Xchat, KVirc, Irssi, BitchX, Ksirc, Epic, Sirc, PJIRC
Instant Messaging	ICQ Lite, ICQ Corp, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, …Trillian ICQ (freeware, can replace all common IM clients), Miranda, Pidgin	Pidgin (Nearly all IM protocols), Kopete, aMSN (MSN), Kmess (MSN), Licq (ICQ), Centericq (Nearly all IM protocols, console), Alicq (ICQ), Micq (ICQ), GnomeICU (ICQ), Ayttm (Nearly all IM protocols), Everybuddy, Simple Instant Messenger, Imici Messenger, Ickle (ICQ), Kmerlin (MSN), Kicq (ICQ), YSM (ICQ, console), kxicq, Yahoo Messenger for Unix, AIM, MSNre. (console)
A / V Conferencing	NetMeeting	GnomeMeeting (Ekiga Now), vat/vic/wb, rat/wbd/nte, NeVoT, IVS, Skype
Firewall	BlackICE, ATGuard, ZoneAlarm, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, WinRoute Pro, Norton Internet Security, Sygate Personal Firewall PRO, Kerio Personal Firewall	Kmyfirewall, Easy Firewall Generator, Firewall Builder, Shorewall, Guarddog, FireStarter, Smoothwall, IPCop, ZorpNote: these are all frontends for IPtables.
Intrusion Detection	BlackICE, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, Tripwire, Kerio Personal Firewall	Snort, Portsentry/Hostsentry/Logsentry, Tripwire, Tripwall, AIDE, ViperDB, Integrit, Cerberus Intrusion Detection System, MIDAS NMS.
P2P File Sharing	Morpheus (Gnutella), WinMX, Napster, KaZaA (Fasttrack), eDonkey [Prop], eMule, TheCircle, Bittorrent, SoulSeek, Direct Connect	Mldonkey. (eDonkey, Soulseek, Fasttrack, Gnutella, Open Napster, Direct Connect, BitTorrent), LimeWire. (Gnutella), Lopster. (OpenNAP), Gnapster. (OpenNAP), eDonkey. (eDonkey), cDonkey. (eDonkey), Gift client/server/fasttrack plugin (Fasttrack), ed2k_gui, Gtk-Gnutella. (Gnutella),) Qtella. (Gnutella), Mutella. (Gnutella, console), TheCircle, Freenet. (fully anonymous p2p), GNUnet, Lmule. (eDonkey), Xmule. (eDonkey), Bittorrent, PySoulSeek (Soulseek), Loophole (WinMX), Direct Connect, QuickDC. (Direct Connect), OverNet, Apollon, GrapeWine.(fully anonymous p2p), Snark. (Bittorrent), Sancho (mldonkey frontend), ktorrent, Vuze
FAX	WinFax	HylaFax, Fax2Send, Efax, VSI-FAX
Dialup	Vdialer, etc	Kppp, X-isp, wvdial. (Front ends: X-wvdial, kvdial, gtkdial), Gppp, Kinternet, Rp3, pppconfig + pon + poff, Modem Lights, Netcount. (console)
Remote Access	VNC, Virtual Network Computing, Remote Administrator (Radmin), Remote Assistance, Symantec pcAnywhere, Windows Terminal Server, Rdesktop, Radmin, PC-Duo, Huey PC Remote Control (only for NT), Timbuktu Pro, LapLink, GoToMyPC, Bo2k and other trojans	VNC, Virtual Network Computing, ssh, Remote management is built-in in XFree86, Remote management is built-in in KDE 3.1. (“desktop sharing”), Rdesktop Client, rsh / rlogin, telnet, Gtelnet, x0rfbserver, KDE Universal Remote Desktop.
Modem Terminal	HyperTerminal, Terminate, etc	Minicom + lrzcz + Kermit, Msterm, Xtel, uucp, lrzsz + cu from uucp.
Packet Sniffing	Sniffer Pro, EtherPeek (TokenPeek, AiroPeek), Windump, Wireshark, MS Network Monitor, Iris, Lan Explorer, NetSniffer, Snort	Wireshark, Tcpdump, Etherape, Ntop, ipxdump. (+ipxparse for parsing), Snort.
Port Scanning	ShadowScan, ISS, Retina, Internet Scanner	Nessus, Nmap
IP Telephony (VOIP)	Buddyphone [Prop], Cisco SoftPhone, Skype	GNU Bayonne, Openh323, OpenPhone, tkPhone, NauPhone, Twinkle, Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting), Gizmo (win+mac version also), Kphone, Linphone, Skype
Network File Sharing	Windows shares	NFS, Samba, Samba-TNG, FTP.
Local Network Browsing	Network neighborhood	Samba, KDE Lan Browser, lisa, LinNeighborhood, xSMBrowser, Komba2, Konqueror, SMB4K
Distributed Computing	All projects, United Devices, Seti @ Home, Folding @ Home, Genome @ Home.	All projects, Distributed.net, Seti @ Home, Folding @ Home, Genome, @ Home, D2ol. Some versions for Linux run only in console mode.

File Tools

Description	Windows	Linux
File Browsers	FAR, Norton Commander, Disco Commander, Volcov Commander, Total Commander (former Windows Commander), Windows Explorer / Internet Explorer	Konqueror, Nautilus, Krusader, PCMan File Manager, Thunar, Midnight Commander, X Northern Captain, Deco (Demos Commander), Portos Commander, Konqueror in MC style, Gentoo, VFU, Ytree, Kcommander, FileRunner (TCL/TK), Linux Commander, LinCommander, Rox, Rox-Filer, Emelfm, Midnight Commander, Worker, Gnome-Commander, Endeavour Mark II, XWC.
Personal Media Player Management	iTunes, Windows Media Player	Amarok, Rhythmbox, Gnomad2, GTKpod
Archive Compression	WinZip, WinRar, 7-Zip, WinACE, UltimateZip	Ark, File-Roller, Gnozip, KArchiveur, Gnochive, Unace, LinZip, TkZip.
Archiving, Console	arj, rar, zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, lha	tar, gzip, bzip2, Unarc, Lha, Infozip, Arj, Avfs. (The support of any archive from any program – file.zip#/…), Zoo, RAR, CAB Extract, 7-zip
Directory Comparison	Beyond Compare, Araxis Merge, WinMerge, Minimalist GNU For Windows (diff.exe), Unison, kdiff3	Mgdiff, diff, patch, Xemacs, Xdelta. (make patches for binary files), Meld, Xxdiff, Unison, kdiff3, kompare

Desktop & System

Description	Windows	Linux
Text Editors	Notepad, Notepad++, WordPad, TextPad, Vim, Xemacs,	Gedit (Gnome), Kate (KDE), KWrite (KDE), Kedit (KDE), Gnotepad, Nedit, Vim, Xemacs, Xcoral, Nvi, Ozeditor, Emacs, Nano (It’s a free implementation of pico), joe, Fte, Jed, CoolEdit.
Multi-purpose text and source code editor	SciTE, UltraEdit, MultiEdit, Vim, Xemacs	Kate (KDE), Nedit, CodeCommander, SciTE, Quanta Plus, Vim, Xemacs, Mcedit (comes with mc), Jed, Setedit. (Turbo Vision looking style), HT editor.
Viewing PostScript	RoPS, GhostView	Okular, GhostView, Kghostview, GV, GGV
Viewing PDF	Adobe Acrobat Distiller, GhostView	Okular, Evince, Adobe Reader, Xpdf, GV, GGV, GhostView, Kghostview, Kpdf
PDF Creation	Adobe Acrobat Distiller, GhostView, Ghostscript, Openoffice.org	Any Linux WYSIWYG program -> print to file -> ps2pdf, Openoffice.org, Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PStill, PDFLatex, Xfig, Ghostscript, Tex2Pdf, Reportlab, GV, GGV, GhostView, Kghostview, Panda PDF Generator.
Cryptography	EFS (standard), PGP-Disk, BestCrypt, Private Disk Light, PGP, GnuPG + Windows Privacy Tools	GnuPG (console) + GPA, KGpg, and other frontends, PGP, Loop-aes, CFS, TCFS, BestCrypt, CryptFS, Truecrypt
Task Scheduling (Automation)	mstask, nnCron	cron, Anacron, at (standard, console). GUI: Kcron.
Appointment Scheduling	Outlook scheduler	KOrganizer.
Scanning	Programs on CD with scanner, VueScan	Xsane, Kooka, Xvscan, VueScan
Anti-Virus	AVG AntiVirus, NAV, Dr. Web, TrendMicro, F-Prot, Kaspersky	Clam Antivirus, F-Prot, Dr. Web, Trend ServerProtect, RAV Antivirus (Bought by Microsoft?), OpenAntivirus + AMaViS / VirusHammer, F-Prot, Sophie / Trophie, Kaspersky, YAVR.
System Configuration	Control Panel, Msconfig, RegEdit, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, Config NT	setup (Red Hat), chkconfig (Red Hat), redhat-config-<feature> (Red Hat 8.0), xf86config, xf86cfg, Linuxconf, Drakconf (aka the Mandriva Control Center), Webmin, yast and yast2 (SuSE), sysinstall (FreeBSD), /dev/bare_hands 🙂
Boot managers	System Commander, PowerQuest Boot Magic, GAG	Grub, Lilo, ASPLoader, Acronis OS Selector, Ranish Partition Manager, osbs, Symon, Smart Boot Manager, Xosl, GAG.
Hard Drive Partition Management	PowerQuest Partition Magic, Acronis PartitionExpert, Paragon Partition Manager, Partition Commander	PartGUI. (GUI for partimage and parted), GNU Parted. (GUI – QTParted and GParted), Partition Image, fips, Diskdrake (Mandrake), Paragon Partition Manager, Acronis PartitionExpert
Backup	ntbackup (standard), Legato Networker	Clonezilla, Legato Networker, Lonetar, Disk Archive, Bacula, Taper, dump / restore. (console, standard), Amanda (console), Mondo Rescue. (backups that boot and auto restore themselves to disk)
Disk Imaging	DriveImage, Ghostpe	PartitionImage (GUI – PartGUI), Clonezilla, dd (console, standard), Mondo Rescue
Text to speech	MS text to speech	KDE Voice Plugins, Festival, Emacspeak, VoiceText, KTTS
System Monitoring	System monitor (built-in)	top and htop (console, standard), Ksysguard (KDE), Gnome System Monitor, Gkrellm, Survivor, Konqi, Several Plasma Widgets in KDE4 (RAM, CPU, HD space, Network)
Data Recovery Tools	R-Studio (supports Linux partitions)	e2undel, myrescue, TestDisk, unrm, Channel 16
Alarm clock	MindIt!	KAlarm.
PDA Tools	Palm Desktop	Kpilot, Jpilot.

Multimedia Audio/CD

Description	Windows	Linux
Music / mp3 / ogg players	Winamp, Zinf, SnackAmp, Soritong, Apollo, K-jofol 2000, Sonique, C-4, Media Box Audio / Video Workstation 5, Blaze Media Pro, NEX 3, Real Jukebox, Windows Media Player	Amarok, Rhythmbox, Songbird, MPlayer. (Frontends: SMPlayer, KMPlayer, Kplayer), VLC, Xine. (Frontends: Sinek, Gxine), XMMS (X multimedia system), Noatun, Zinf. (former Freeamp), Winamp, Xamp, GQmpeg, SnackAmp, Banshee
CD Burning	Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator	K3b, Brasero, XCDRoast, KOnCd, Eclipt Roaster, Gnome Toaster, CD Bake Oven, KreateCD, SimpleCDR-X, GCombust, WebCDWriter. (CD burn server, usable from any remote browser with Java support),CDR Toaster, Arson, CD-Me (Creation of audio-CD), Nero
Audio CD Players	CD player, Winamp, Windows Media Player	KsCD, Sound Juicer, Gtcd (Gnome) + tcd (console), Orpheus. (console), Sadp, WorkMan, Xmcd, XPlayCD, ccd / cccd. (console) cdp. (console), BeboCD
Audio CD Ripping	Cdex, MusicMatch, Streambox Ripper, Audiocatalyst, WinDac, Audiograbber, Media Box Audio / Video Workstation, CD-Copy, Blaze Media Pro, Real Jukebox, Windows Media Player, Nero, VirtualDrive, VirtualCD, Audacity	Grip, KAudioCreator, Sound Juicer, RipperX, tkcOggRipper, A Better CD Encoder, cdda2wav (CLI), Gnome Toaster, Cdparanoia, Cd2mp3, Dagrab, SimpleCDR-X, RatRip, AutoRip.
MIDI Player	Winamp, Windows Media Player	xmms + midi-plugin. (Using TiMidity), xmms + awemidi-plugin. (Using drvmidi), xmms + playmidi-plugin. (Using playmidi), TiMidity++. Supports gus pathes and sf2 banks, backend to another software, timidity-eawpatches, Gus-patches for TiMidity++, Kmid, drvmidi / awemidi, pmidi (console, for ALSA), playmidi, atmidi.
Midi + Karaoke Player	VanBasco	Kmid. Gkaraoke. TiMidity++.
Mp3 Encoders	Lame, Cdex, MusicMatch, Streambox Ripper, Audiocatalyst, Blaze Media Pro, Media Box Audio / Video Workstation, AudioSlimmer, Real Jukebox	Lame, Bladeenc, NotLame, L3enc, gogo.
OGG Encoders	oggenc	oggenc
Real Media	RealPlayer, Mplayer + libraries.	RealPlayer, Mplayer + libraries, ReMedial.
Radio	VC Radio, FMRadio, Digband Radio	Streamtuner, xradio, cRadio, Xmradio, RDJ, RadioActive, XMMS-FMRadio, Gqradio, Qtradio
Audio Editing	SoundForge, Cooledit, Audacity	Audacity, Glame, Rezound, Sweep, WaveForge, Sox, GNUSound, Ecasound, SoundStudio, mhWaveEdit.
Multitrack Audio Processor	Cubase	Ecasound, Ardour
Sound Mixer	sndvol32	Opmixer, aumix, mix2000, KMix, Alsamixer, GMix, wmix (for WindowMaker), Mixer_app (for WindowMaker), Many applets for AfterStep / WindowMaker / FluxBox
Music Notation	Finale, Sibelius, SmartScore	LilyPond, Noteedit,MuX2d
Midi-sequencer	Cakewalk	RoseGarden, Brahms, Anthem, Melys, MuSE, MidiMountain.
Music Creation	Cakewalk, FruityLoops	RoseGarden, Ardour.
ID3-Tag Editors	Mp3tag	EasyTAG, Cantus, id3tool (console), id3ed (console), id3edit (console).
Streaiming Audio Capture	Twins Stream Ripper	Stream Ripper

Multi-Media Graphics

Description	Windows	Linux
Graphics Viewers	ACDSee, IrfanView, Xnview, CompuPic [Prop], Windows Fax and Image viewer, Any web browser	Xnview, GQview, Qiv, CompuPic, Kuickshow, Kview, GTKSee, xv, pornview, imgv, Gwenview, Gliv, Showimg, Fbi, Gthumb, PixiePlus, Electric Eyes (Gnome), Eye of Gnome, GImageView, Hugues Image Viewer, Any web browser
Simple Bitmap Editors	Paing	Kpaint, Tuxpaint, Xpaint, Gpaint, Killustrator, Graphtool
Advanced Graphic/Photo Editors	Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Paint Shop Pro, Pixel32, Corel PhotoPaint, Macromedia Fireworks	Gimp, ImageMagick, Pixel32, CinePaint, RubyMagick, Corel PhotoPaint 9
Vector Graphic Editors	Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, AutoSketch, OpenOffice Draw	Inkscape, sK1, Sodipodi, xfig, Sketch, Karbon14 and Kontour, OpenOffice Draw, Dia, Tgif, Gestalter, ImPress, Tkpaint, Tgif, Corel Draw 9
Scalable Vector Graphic Editors	WebDraw	Inkscape, sK1, Sodipodi, Dia, Sketch
Text Decoration	Wordart, OpenOffice Draw	OpenOffice Draw
ASCII Drawing	ANSI DRAW, Mazaika	CanvASCII, Jave, ANSI Draw, EDASCII
Flash Players	Flash Player	SWF Macromedia Flash Player, Flash Player, Plugin for Netscape/Mozilla
Flash Creation	Macromedia Flash	DrawSWF. Ming. (Creating flash swf output from programming languages)
3D-Graphics	3D Studio MAX, Maya, Povray	Blender, Maya, KPovModeler, K3Studio, Moonlight, GIG3DGO, Povray, MegaPov, K3D, Wings 3D, Softimage XSI, Kludge3d
Icon editor	Microangelo	Gnome-iconedit, Kiconedit
Screenshots	Integrated with system (PrintScreen), Snag it	Ksnapshot, Xwpick, Xwd, xgrabsc, Motv (xawtv), Streamer (video), Integrated with window manager (various hotkeys)
Database Structure	Access	Dia, Toolkit for Conceptual Modelling
Digital Camera/Photo Organizers	Polaroid Drivers	Camera Tool (gtkam), Gphoto2, Kphoto, F-Spot, digiKam

Multimedia Video

Description	Windows	Linux
Video/MPEG4 Players	BSplayer, Zoomplayer, Windows Media Player, VideoLAN, Winamp3, Mplayer, RealPlayer, Xing, Simplayer	Mplayer. (Frontend: Kplayer),(LiveCD distribution of Mplayer – MoviX), Xine. (Frontends: Sinek, Totem), VideoLAN, Aviplay, Winamp3, Noatun, KDE Media Player, XMovie, Kaboodle, MpegTV, Avifile, Xmps, Ogg Tarkin (???), Theora (???)
DVD Players	PowerDVD, WinDVD, MicroDVD, Windows Media Player, VideoLAN	Ogle, Mplayer, Xine, Aviplay, VideoLAN, OMS,
DVD Ripping/Encoding	Gordian Knot, Mencoder (from Mplayer)	Drip, Transcode, Mencoder. (from Mplayer), Ffmpeg, DVD::Rip.
Simple Video Creation/Editing	Windows Movie Maker	iMira Editing, MainActor, Broadcast 2000, Avidemux.
Professional Video Production	Adobe Premiere, Media Studio Pro	iMira Editing, Cinelerra, MainActor, Broadcast 2000, Lives, CinePaint, Heroine Virtual.
Cutting Video	Virtual Dub	Avidemux, Kino.
Video Conversion	Virtual Dub, Mencoder (from Mplayer)	Transcode, Mencoder (from Mplayer), Ffmpeg.
TV Tuners	AVerTV, PowerVCR 3.0, CinePlayer DVR, Mplayer, GBPVR	Tvtime, Kwintv, Xawtv, Zapping, GnomeTV, Mplayer, Xawdecode, MythTV
Creation of 2D and 3D effects	Adobe After Effects	Shake. [Proprietary, $129.95], Plugins for Gimp.
Animation	Animation Shop	CinePaint, Plugins for Gimp, Blender
Landscape / terrain generation	Bryce	Terraform.

Office/Business

Description	Windows	Linux
Office Suite	MS Office, StarOffice / OpenOffice, 602Software, WordPerfect Office 2000	OpenOffice, StarOffice, Koffice, HancomOffice, Gnome Office, Applixware Office, Siag Office, TeX, LaTeX,
Word Processors	Word, StarOffice / OpenOffice Writer, 602Text, Abiword	Abiword, TextMaker, WordPerfect, Ted, StarOffice / OpenOffice Writer, Kword, LyX, Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment).
Spreedsheets	Excel, StarOffice / OpenOffice Calc, 602Tab	Gnumeric, Abacus, StarOffice / OpenOffice Calc, Kspread.
Graphing/Charting Data	Excel, MicroCall Origin	Kivio, Dia, KChart, xfig, Gnuplot, GtkGraph, GNU Plotutils. Ploticus.
Presentations	MS PowerPoint, StarOffice Presentation, OpenOffice Impress	StarOffice Presentation, OpenOffice Impress, Kpresenter, MagicPoint, Kuickshow & gimp 🙂
Databases	MS Access, InterBase6, OpenOffice + MySQL.	Kexi, KNoda, Gnome DB Manager, OpenOffice + MySQL, InterBase7, InterBase6, Berkley DB, Rekall, StarOffice Adabase.
Financial Market Analysis	Omega Research Trade Station 2000	The Market Analysis System (MAS)
E-commerce and Web Business	Weblogic, IBM WebSphere Application Server, iPlanet, osCommerce, JOnAS, COCOON	Weblogic, JBoss, IBM WebSphere Application Server, osCommerce, JOnAS, COCOON
Personal Finance	MS Money, Quicken, Moneydance	Skrooge, GNUcash, GnoFin, KMyMoney, Grisbi, Moneydance
Project Management	MS Project, Project Expert 7	KPlato, Mr Project, Outreach, Planner

Games

Description	Windows	Linux
General Resources	Enourmous Selection	The Linux Game Tome (happypenguin.org) | LinuxGames.com | Kde Games | Linux Game Publishing, http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php

Programming and Development

Description	Windows	Linux
IDE	Microsoft VisualStudio .net, Emacs, XEmacs, Vim + ctags + scripts from vim.sf.net, Boa Constructor, PythonCard	CodeForge, Kdevelop + Qt3 Designer, Eclipse, Glade + Motor or + Xwpe or + any text editor, Emacs, XEmacs, Vim + ctags + scripts from vim.sf.net, Boa Constructor, PythonCard.
Visual C++ IDE	Borland C++ Builder, MS Visual C	Anjuta + Glade + Devhelp, KDE Studio Gold, Dev-C++, Kylix (Kylix Personal Edition is free), vtkBuilder, foxBuilder, wxDesigner, Arriba, Code Crusader, CodeWarrior, Gbuilder, Source Navigator, TimeStorm, Understand for C++, SlickEdit, Vide
C++ IDE	Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS, , Minimalist GNU For Windows (mingw32-gcc.exe)	GCC (+ Motor or + Xwpe), LinEdit, Rhide, Wxstudio, Eclipse
Object Pascal IDE	Delphi	Kylix. (Kylix Personal Edition is free), Lazarus + FPC.
Pascal	Pascal, BP	Freepascal, GNU Pascal (gpc), RShell (in style of Borland Pascal 7.0)
Basic	Basic	Hbasic, X-basic, Yabasic, SmallBASIC.
Prolog	VisualProlog, Mercury, SICStus Prolog	GNU Prolog, Mercury, SWI-Prolog, SICStus Prolog, CIAO Prolog.
Assembler	TASM, MASM, NASM	NASM. (Intel syntax), FLAT Assembler, gas. (AT&T syntax, part of binutils).
Disassembler, Design Recovery	SoftIce	ldasm
Debugger	WinDbg, Minimalist GNU For Windows (gdb.exe),	ddd, xxgdb, mxgdb, CGDB, Vim scripts, [X]Emacs C-mode, KMD, NANA
WYSIWYG HTML	Macromedia Dreamweaver, MS Frontpage, Netscape / Mozilla Composer, Openoffice HTML editor	Netscape / Mozilla Composer, Openoffice HTML editor, Amaya, GINF (Ginf is not Frontpage), IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder, JXHTMLEDIT (Java).
HTML / DHTML editor	HomeSite, Coffeecup, Arachnofilia	Quanta Plus, Bluefish, WebMaker, Screem, Toppage, WebDesigner, ScriptEditor, August, Coffeecup / Linux, FCKeditor, Arachnofilia
XML Editor	XML Spy	XMLMind XML Editor, Vim, Emacs.
Perl/Python/Tcl IDE	Komodo	Komodo, Perl Dev Kit.
Java IDE	JBuilder, IDEA	Jbuilder, NetBeans, Eclipse, Sun ONE Studio. [formerly Forte], Vide.
J2EE based application server	???	JBoss.
IDE for Oracle Database development	T.O.A.D., SQL Navigator, PL/SQL Developer	Tora
CASE-facility for UML	ArgoUML, Together ControlCenter	Umbrello UML Modeller, Dia+Dia2Code, PoceidonCE (community edition), ArgoUML, Together ControlCenter
Top-level CASE system	Rational Rose.	Rational Rose.
HEX-editor	Hiew	Biew, KHexEdit, hexedit (console), GHex
Clipper Compiler and Preprocessor	CA-Clipper, The Harbour Project	Clip, The Harbour Project, xHarbour.
Platform in dot-net style	Microsoft .Net	Mono, DotGNU/Portable.NET
CVS	WinCVS, TortoiseCVS, cvs for Windows, BitKeeper	cvs (console), Cervisia (KDE), Lincvs. (Front-end for CVS), BitKeeper, SubVersion. (enhanced CVS-like platform + WebDAV -> SCM)
IDE for Interbase/Firebird development	IBExpert	IBAccess, IBAdmin, IBWebAdmin (apache / php)
Visual Basic	Visual Basic	Phoenix, KBasic, HBasic, Mono
Graphical libraries	WinAPI, MFC, VCL (C, C++), Tk (Tcl, C), Tkinter (over Tk for Python, Perl, etc), wxWindows (C++) (over winapi), wxPython (Python) (over wxWindows), GTK+ (link #2) (C, C++), Qt (C++), FLTK (C++), AWT, Swing (Java), Xaw – part of X-server (C)	X11/Xext (C) – low level libraries, used by others, Xt – X Toolkit (C) – reference X11 toolkit, Xaw – MIT Athena (C) – reference X11 toolkit, Xaw3d – MIT Athena 3D (C) – Athena with 3D-view, LessTif – opensource analog of Motif 1 (C), OpenMotif (C),Tk (Tcl, C), Tkinter (over Tk for Python, Perl, etc), wxWindows (C++) (over GTK+ – wxGtk or Motif – wxMotif), wxPython (Python) (over wxWindows),) Qt (C++), GTK+ (C, C++), PyQt (over Qt for Python), PyGTK (over GTK+ for Python), Gtk::Perl (over GTK+ for Perl), Qt for Perl (over Qt for Perl), GtkAda (over GTK+ for Ada95), FLTK (C++), XView (C), FOX (C++), AWT, Swing (Java), WinAPI and MFC through wine (C)
Source Code Documentation System	???	Doxygen, CWEB
Memory Leak Tracing	Numega Bounds Checker, Rational Purify	MallocDebug, Valgrind, Kcachegrind, ElectricFence, dmalloc, ccmalloc, LeakTracer, memprof, BoundsChecker, mprof, Insure, dbx. (for Sparc), YAMD, Njamd, Mpatrol
Application Development Profiling (tests code performance)	???	gProf, JUnit. (Java)
Software projecting	Rational Rose, Enterprise Architec, Visio	???
Game programming	DirectX, libSDL, ClanLib	libSDL, ClanLib
Bug Tracking System	???	Bugzilla.
Object Request Broker (ORB)	ORBIT	ORBIT
Portability	???	Autoconf, Automake & Libtool.
Source code indexer and cross-referencer	???	GNU GLOBAL, LXR.
Dynamic tracer of system calls	???	Syscalltrack.
XML C parser	libxml (???)	Libxml2.
FoxPro	Visual FoxPro	qwerty

Server Softwre

Description	Windows	Linux
Web (HTTP) Server	Apache, IIS, Roxen, wn, cern-httpd, dhttpd, caudium, aolserver, Boa	Apache, Xitami, Thttp, TUX (Red Hat Content Accelerator), PublicFile, Boa, Caudium, Roxen, Zeus, Thy.
FTP Server	Internet Information Server, ServU, War FTP, BulletProof FTP server, FileZilla server,	pure-ftpd, vsftpd, wu-ftpd, proftpd, gl-ftpd, ftp, PublicFile, Teepeedee
Web Development Languages	PHP, Perl, ASP	PHP, Perl, ASP module for Apache
Database Engine	MS SQL, MySQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, Informix, Borland Interbase, FireBird	Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, PostgreSQL, The most advanced open source database, MySQL, The most popular open source database, mSQL, SAP DB, IBM DB2, IBM DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL Linter (cyrillic), Informix, Firebird
Email Servers	MDaemon, Hamster	Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix, Exim.
Email / PIM / Groupware server	Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino	Citadel, CommuniGate Pro, Bynari’s Insight GroupWare Suite, Samsung Contact, Teamware Office, Novell Netmail, Amphora. (Zope / Qmail), Tutos. (Apache / PHP / Mysql / Sendmail), Kroupware. The project from the KDE PIM developers, which is being financed by the government of Germany, SuSe Linux Openexchange Server, PHPGroupware, SCOoffice Mail Server (SCO – m.d. :), LinuXchangE, OpenOffice.org Groupware Project, Tiki CMS/Groupware. (Apache / PHP / Mysql), Lotus Domino
Mail filter / spam killer	cygwin+Exim port	SpamAssassin, Procmail, Mailfilter, Cyrus-imap, Exim, POPFile.
Mail downloader	MDaemon	Fetchmail
Server / router on one diskette.	Impossible	muLinux, Dachstein (firewall / dhcp), Serverdisk (http / ftp), Fli4l
Proxy server	MS Proxy Server, WinGate	Squid, Paco, Privoxy, Wwwoffle, OOPS
Server for supporting Java Servlets and JSP, can work with Apache	Tomcat	Tomcat
Advanced server statistics	AWStats	AWStats. (All web-, ftp-, proxy-, mail-, wap- and streaming-servers), ANALOG. (Web-server), Awffull
Cluster Management	???	LVS – The Linux Virtual Server.
Cluster filesystems	GFS, ADIC	GFS, OpenGFS, Lustre. (not SAN compatible?), Matrix Server, CXFS, GPFS, Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS), Coda, Intermezzo,) Convolo cluster, ADIC.
Web Mail	SquirrelMail	IMP, CAMAS. (for Caudium web-server), SquirrelMail

Scientific and Specialty

Description	Windows	Linux
Check out	this link 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	Matlab. [FTP], Octave. (+ Gnuplot), Scilab, R, Yorick, rlab, Yacas, Euler.
Math system in Mathematica style	Mathematica	Mathematica. [Prop], Maxima, MuPad, NumExp, Mathomatic
Math system in Maple style	Maple	Maple, Maxima, MuPad
Equation / math editor	Mathtype, MS Equation Editor, OpenOffice Math	OpenOffice Math, MathMLed, Kformula (Koffice), LyX, Texmacs.
Programs for three-dimensional modeling	SolidWorks,CATIA, SolidEdge	ProEngineer Linux, CATIA. It was designed under Unix, and from version 4 (2000) it was ported under Windows (not too successfully), SolidEdge (part of more powerful package Unigraphics).
Engineering	ANSYS	ANSYS
CAD/CAM/CAE	AutoCAD, Microstation, ArchiCAD	Varkon, Linuxcad, Varicad, Cycas, Tomcad, Thancad, Fandango (alpha-version), Lignumcad, Giram, Jcad, QSCad, FreeEngineer, Ocadis, PythonCAD, OpenCascade
CAD/CAM/CAE, simplified	AutoCAD Lite	Qcad
Desktop Publishing Systems	Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress	Adobe Framemaker. [Proprietary, cancelled]
Small desktop publishing systems	MS Publisher	Scribus – Desktop Publishing for Linux, KWord.
Diagram and chart designer	Microsoft Visio	Kivio (Koffice), Dia, KChart, xfig, Tgif + dotty, Tulip, Poseidon for UML, JGraph + JGraphPad. (Java)
Geographic image processing software	Erdas Imagine, ER Mapper, ENVI	ENVI.
GIS (Geographical information system)	ArcView	All projects: FreeGIS Project, Grass, Quantum GIS, PostGIS, FreeGIS, MapQuest, MapBlast
Interactive Geographic Data Viewer	Thuban	Thuban
Vectorization of bitmaps	MapEdit, Easy Trace	Autotrace.
Software CNC, controlling machine tools	OpenCNC [Prop]	EMC.
Advanced text processing system in TeX style	MikTex, emTeX (DOS)	TeX, TeTeX / LaTeX, LyX (WYSIWYM), Kile
Convenient, functional and user-friendly TeX-files / dvi-files editor.	WinEdt	Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment), Ktexmaker2, Tk LaTeX Editor.
Statistical Computing Language and Environment	S-PLUS	R.
Statistical analysis	SPSS, Statistica, SalStat	PSPP, OpenStat2, “Probability and Statistics Utilities for Linux users”, SalStat.
Econometrics Software	Eviews, Gretl	Gretl
Emulation of the circuit	Electronic Workbench, Altera MaxPlus+	Geda, Oregano, Xcircuit, Gnome Assisted Electronics, SPICE. SPICE OPUS, 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, OrCad, Visio	Eagle, Geda
The oscilloscope emulation	Winoscillo	Xoscope
Measurement of the temperature and voltages on motherboard	MBMonitor, PCAlert, Speedfan	KSensors, KHealthCare (KDE), Gkrellm + plugins + blackbox addons
S.M.A.R.T-attributes and temperature of the hard disk	Bundled on CD with mainboard, Active SMART	smartctl, Hddtemp-0.3, IDEload-0.2, Smartsuite-2.1, Smartmontools, Ide-smart, Smartsuite
Memory testing	SiSoft SANDRA	Memtest86.
Program for watching temperatures, fanspeeds, etc	SiSoft SANDRA, SiSoft SAMANTHA	Ksensors, Lm_sensors, xsensors, wmsensormon and other applets for AfterStep / WindowMaker / FluxBox
HDD testing / benchmarking	SiSoft SANDRA, SiSoft SAMANTHA, IOzone	hdparm, Bonnie++, IOzone, Dbench, Bonnie, IO Bench, Nhfsstone, SPEC SFS.
Video testing / benchmarking	Final Reality	X11perf, Viewperf
Realtime Control	SHA Sybera Hardware Access	DIAPM RTAI – Realtime Application Interface
Simulator of nets	???	NS
Neural network simulation	???	Xnbc, Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS).
“Sensor for LCD”	???	Sensors-lcd.
Electrocardiogram viewer	???	ecg2png.
A software technology, that turns x86 computer into a full-function PLC-like process controller	SoftPLC	MatPLC
Catalog of software translators	???	Linux for translators.
Translation memory	Trados Translators Workbench, Deja Vu, Star Transit, SDLX, OmegaT	OmegaT.
Catalog of educational software	???	SchoolForge, Seul / EDU.
Designing and viewing DTDs	NearFar Designer	???
Finity Element Analysis	???	FELT (Finity Element Analysis)

Emulators

Description	Windows	Linux
Virtual machine emulator	VMWare, Connectix Virtual PC	VMWare, Win4Lin, Bochs, Plex86, User Mode Linux, QEMU, VirtualBox
Linux emulator	CygWin, MKS Toolkit, Bash for Windows, Minimalist GNU For Windows.	User Mode Linux
X Window System (XFree) emulator	CygWin, MKS Toolkit, Bash for Windows, Minimalist GNU For Windows	User Mode Linux
Windows emulator	???	Wine (GUI: gwine, tkwine), Transgaming WineX. (GUI: tqgui) [NF], Crossover Office
DOS emulator		DOSBox, Dosemu.
Sony PlayStation emulator	ePSXe	ePSXe, Pcsx
ZX Spectrum emulator	X128, Speccyal, SpecX, SpecEmu, UnrealSpeccy	Xzx, Glukalka, Fuse, ZXSP-X, FBZX, SpectEmu
Arcade machines emulator	???	MAME, Xmame / Xmess, Advancemame Frontends:advancemenu. ckmame. flynn. gmame. gnomame. grok. grustibus. gxmame. it. it’s quit. fancy. kmamerun. kmamu. qmamecat. startxmame. setcleaner. tkmame.
ST emulator	Steem.	StonX, Steem
C64 emulator	???	Vice, Frodo
Amiga emulator	???	UAE, WinUAE
Mac 68k emulator	???	Basilisk II.
Game boy emulator	Visual Boy Advance	Visual Boy Advance, VGBA. (GUI: vgb-gui)
Atari 2600 Video Computer System emulator	Stella	Stella, Saint
NES / SNES emulator	Zsnes, Snes9x	Zsnes, Snes9x, FWNes, GTuxNes
M680x0 Arcade emulator	Rainemu.	Rainemu.
Multi / other emulators	???	M.E.S.S., Zinc

Other/Entertainment

Description	Windows	Linux
Space simulator	Openuniverse, Celestia, Zetadeck	Openuniverse, Celestia, Kstars, Zetadeck
TV driver	???	RivaTV, ivtv
System, running from CD/DVD without installing (Live CD)	Windows PE, PE Builder.	Mandriva One, Knoppix, Cool Linux, Blin, DemoLinux, DyneBolic, Gentoo (live CD), Lonix, Virtual Linux, Bootable Business Card (LNX-BBC), ByzantineOS, FreeLoader Linux, MoviX, Freeduc CD, SuSE live-eval CD, Freedom Linux, Eagle Linux, Kurumin (Brazilian Portuguese only), Ubuntu Live, ALT Linux Live
Boot rescue/tools diskette	Windows system diskette	Linux system diskette, Tomsrtbt, BanShee Linux, RIP, Ultimate Boot CD
Creation of LiveCD for system recovery	???	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	Rpm, Urpmi, GnoRpm, Nautilus RPM, Apt-get & frontends (synaptic, aptitude, …), Apt-rpm. (for RedHat, SuSE, ALT Linux, etc), yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified), yum enhanced by ASPLinux, Gentoo Portage
Installing software from source and uninstalling	Minimalist GNU For Windows	make install, make uninstall, CheckInstall, Sinstall, Emerge (Gentoo), Apt-get & frontends (synaptic, aptitude)
System update	Windows Update	Ximian Red Carpet, Red Hat Network, MandrakeOnline, SuSE YaST Online Update, Caldera Volution Online, Apt, Gentoo ebuilds (portage), Debian GNU/Linux package search, Yum.
Certification	MCSD, MCT, MCSE	Red Hat Certification, Sair Linux and GNU Certification, Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC), Linux+, Prometric, VUE
Icons on desktop	Explorer	Desktop File Manager, Idesk.
Work with screensavers	Desktop properties	xset, xlockmore, xscreensaver, kscreensaver
Place for keeping “removed” files	Trash	Trash Can, 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, etc.
Windows XP GUI	Windows XP	XPde.
Fast users / desktop switching	Windows XP feature for non- networked computers	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	command.com 🙂 , cmd.exe, Windows Scripting Host, 4DOS / 4NT, Minimalist GNU For Windows, Unix tools for Windows (AT&T), KiXtart, ScriptLogic	Bash, Csh, Zsh, Ash, Tcsh
Free of charge operating system	Microsoft Windows. (Note: Estimates are that in Russia 95% of users have a pirated copy of Windows).	Linux – the Free operating system!!
The magazines	Windows Magazine	Linux Journal, Linux Gazette, Linux magazine, Linux pratico (Italy), Australian Linux, Linux Format
Fail!	Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD)	Kernel panic, Screensaver “bsod”
Whom to curse for bugs and defects of the system	M$, Bill Gates personally	Developers of the distribution, All the Linux people and Linus Torvalds personally, Yourself and your own /dev/hands
Homebase	M$.com	GNU.org, FSF.org
Where to find out more	Windows.com	Linux.org
Dominant Vision	Bill Gates, “Road ahead”	Linus Torvalds, “Just for fun” 🙂
Seminal Publication	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”

External Links

http://www.linuxalt.com/

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software