Application Finder
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Application Finder
In this section we will list out the alternative programs list for users that have Windows programs but don't know the actual OSS/Linux based equivalents.
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Equivalent List
| Windows programs and OSS/Linux based equivalents | ||
|---|---|---|
| Windows Program | OSS/Linux Equivalent | |
| Photoshop | The Gimp *, Krita, Pixel image editor (commercial application) | |
| Microsoft Office | OpenOffice * | |
| Internet Explorer | Mozilla Firefox *, Opera *, Epiphany | |
| Winamp | XMMS, BMPx (aka Beep-Media-Player) | |
| iTunes | Rhythmbox, amaroK, GTKPod (iPod Synchronization), Banshee, Quod Libet | |
| Mirc | XChat *, XChat-GNOME, Konversation, irssi * | |
| AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber | Gaim *, Kopete, Centericq | |
| MSN (with voice and video support) | AMSN, Mercury | |
| Premiere (Movie Editing) | Kino, Diva | |
| DreamWeaver, FrontPage | Nvu *, Bluefish, Quanta-Plus | |
| Cdex | SoundJuicer, Grip | |
| Nero, Easy CD Creator | K3B, Gnomebaker, Nero for Linux, Bonfire | |
| Outlook Professional | Evolution, Kontact | |
| Outlook Express | Thunderbird *, Balsa, Sylpheed, Kmail | |
| Partition Magic | Gparted, QTparted, Fdisk, Cfdisk | |
| Download Accelerator (Flashget, Getright) | D4X, Wget, Kget | |
| WSFTP, CuteFTP | GFTP, Kbear, NCFTP, (Nautilus), (Konqueror), IglooFTP (commercial application) | |
| NetMeeting | GnomeMeeting or Ekiga | |
| Voice Chat (Ventrilo) | TeamSpeak | |
| VOIP (Skype, Gizmo) | Skype *, Gizmo *, Wengo * | |
| Firewall (ZoneAlarm, BlackIce) | Firestarter, Guarddog | |
| WinFax | HylaFax | |
| Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, Irfanview | Eye Of Gnome, Gwenview | |
| DVD playing (InterActual) | Ogle, Mplayer, Kaffeine | |
| Visio | Dia, Dia-Gnome, Kivio [1] | |
| Publisher | Scribus | |
| WordProcessor (StandAlone) | Abiword * | |
| Notepad, Wordpad | Emacs *, Gedit *, Kedit, Vim, Nano * | |
| Spreadsheet (StandAlone) | Gnumeric | |
| Quicken | Gnucash, KMyMoney, Moneydance | |
| Cakewalk (Audio Engineering), Sound Forge | Audacity, RoseGarden, Rezound, LMMS | |
| AcroBat Reader | AcroRead, XPDF, Evince, KPDF | |
| RealPlayer | RealPlayer | |
| Remote Desktop | Rdesktop, VNC *, Terminal Services Client | |
| CAD | QCad | |
| News Feeds/Aggregation | Akregator, Straw, Knode, Liferea | |
| Project Management | Planner | |
| 3DSMAX, MAYA | Blender | |
| DC++ | DC++ for Linux | |
| Last.fm | Last.fm for linux or Last-Exit | |
* These are cross-platform programs you can recommend to Windows users hesitant to make the switch to linux.
For deeper information please check the "table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux".
