Networking
| Description | Windows | Mandriva Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Web Browser | Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Opera, Lynx, etc. | Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Konqueror, Opera, Nautilus, Galeon, Epiphany, Lynx |
| 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.
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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://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
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