Here is a list giving the major software equivalents (excluding games, and programming software emulators) for the operating system GNU / Linux (any distribution). Note that some applications are developed in parallel for GNU / Linux and Windows.
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Here is a list giving the major software equivalents (excluding games, and programming software emulators) for the operating system GNU / Linux (any distribution). Note that some applications are developed in parallel for GNU / Linux and Windows.
Internet
Browsers: Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Epiphany, Links, Dillo
Mail E-Mail: Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail, Sylpheed, Claws Mail, dances, Arrow, Aethera
Instant Messenger: Gaim, Pidgin, Kopete, KMess, Skype, aMSN, Yahoo Messenger for Unix
Newsreaders (newsgroups): Knode, Pan, NewsReader, Thunderbird, Sylpheed, Claws Mail
RSS aggregator: Liferea, Akregator, Thunderbird, RSSOwl, KNewsTicker
Downloading files: Wget, Downloader for X (d4x), Aria, Getleft, K Get, Urlgfe
Aspiration Web site: HTTrack, Kmago, XsiteCopy, Wget, d4x
FTP download: gftp, Kbear, Konqueror, Kasablanca
P2P download off BitTorrent: aMule, LimeWare, lopster, MLDonkey, GTK Gnutella, GNUnet, The Circle, Freenet
BitTorrent download: BitTorrent, Azureus, BitTornado, ABC, KTorrent
Audio / Video Conference: GnomeMeeting
Getting Started remote VNC, ssh / openssh, TightVNC
Security
Firewall: Shorewall, Kmyfirewall, Easy Firewall Generator, Firewall Builder, guarddog, FireStarter, Iptables
Antivirus (mainly for Windows): ClamAV / klamav, Avast, F-Prot
Anti-rootkit, anti-backdoor: chkrootkit, rkhunter (in console root for both)
Update: according to the distribution setup (see distribution)
Encryption: GnuPG KGPG, GPG
Creating images / partition disk cloning: G4U (Ghost for Unix), Kbackup, partimage
Managing Files
File Manager: Konqueror, Nautilus, Thunar, Krusader, Kcommander, Midnight Commander
Archiving: gnozip, Karchiver, fileroller, Ark.
Print: K3B, GnomeBaker, spheres, Brasero (ex Bonfire), X-CDRoast, Nero Linux
Multimedia
Music player: VLC, XMMS, Beep Media Player, Juk, Noatun, MPlayer
Music player with music: Amarok, Rhythmbox
Extracting Audio: Sound Juicer, Grip
Encoding audio SoundJuicer, Grip, KaudioCreator, Kaffeine, Audacity
Video / DVD: Xine, Mplayer, VLC, Kaffeine, Totem, Ogle
Video editing: Cinelerra, Kino, avidemux, CinePaint
Encoding audio / video OGMRip, K9copy, k3b, Wink The Ripper, Thoggen
Copy of DVD video: K9copy, xDVDShrink, Drip, DVD:: Rip
Flash Player: Adobe Flash Player
Graphics
Viewer: Gwenview, gqview, KView, ShowImg, gThumb, Kuickshow
Drawing bitmap: Gimp, Krita, Pixel32
Vector graphics: Inkscape, Sodipodi, Karbon14, Xara LX
Drawing 3D: Blender KPovModeler
Diagrams: Dia
Screenshots: ksnapshot (KDE), gnome-screenshot, ImageMagick
Office
Office suite: OpenOffice.org, Koffice
Word processing: OpenOffice.org Writer, KWord
Spreadsheets: OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet, GNUmeric
Presentation: OpenOffice.org Impress, KPresenter, Latex
Database: OpenOffice.org Base, Kexi
Layout (DTP): Draw OpenOffice.org, Scribus
PDF reader: Adobe Reader, Evince, KPDF, Xpdf
PDF creation: OpenOffice.org, Ghostscript, ps2pdf, pdflatex, Tex2PDF
Text File Editor: Kate, Kwrite, Gedit, Nedit
Management of bank account: Grisbi, GNUCash, KMyMoney
Agenda: Evolution, Kontact
Optical Character Recognition (OCR): ClarOCR, Kookai, Gocr, Xsan
General Development
Edit source code: Geany, Gedit, Kwrite
C compiler gcc
C + + compiler: g + +
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Assembler: nasm, as
Development webmaster
Web site creation visual (WYSIWYG): NVU, kompoz
Web site creation by source: Bluefish, Quanta +, Screem
Server: Apache + PHP + MySQL, XAMPP, Tomcat (For Java Servlet and JSP)
Misc
Calculator: Gcalctool, kcalc, Qalculate
Management partitions GNUParted, QTParted, GParted, DiskDrake (Mandriva), cfdisk fdisk
Hex editor: GHex
VM: VirtualBox, VMWare, Qemu