| 软件描述，可执行任务 | Windows | Linux |
| 1) Networking. |
| Web browser | Internet Explorer, Netscape / Mozilla, Opera [Prop], Firefox, ... | 1) Netscape / Mozilla.
2) Galeon.
3) Konqueror.
4) Opera. [Prop]
5) Firefox.
6) Nautilus.
7) Epiphany.
8) Links. (with "-g" key).
9) Dillo.
10) Encompass. |
| Console web browser | 1) Links
2) Lynx
3) Xemacs + w3. | 1) Links.
2) ELinks.
3) Lynx.
4) w3m.
5) Xemacs + w3. |
| Email client | Outlook Express, Netscape / Mozilla, Thunderbird, The Bat, Eudora, Becky, Datula, Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws, Opera | 1) Evolution.
2) Netscape / Mozilla/Thunderbird messenger.
3) Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws.
4) Kmail.
5) Gnus.
6) Balsa.
7) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop]
8) Arrow.
9) Gnumail.
10) Althea.
11) Liamail.
12) Aethera.
13) MailWarrior.
14) Opera. |
| Email client / PIM in MS Outlook style | Outlook | 1) Evolution.
2) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop]
3) Aethera.
4) Sylpheed.
5) Sylpheed-claws. |
| Email client in The Bat style | The Bat | 1) Sylpheed.
2) Sylpheed-claws.
3) Kmail.
4) Gnus.
5) Balsa. |
| Console email client | Mutt [de], Pine, Pegasus, Emacs | 1) Pine. [NF]
2) Mutt.
3) Gnus.
4) Elm.
5) Emacs. |
| News reader | 1) Agent [Prop]
2) Free Agent
3) Xnews
4) Outlook
5) Netscape / Mozilla
6) Opera [Prop]
7) Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws
8) Dialog
9) Gravity
10) BNR2 | 1) Knode.
2) Pan.
3) NewsReader.
4) Netscape / Mozilla.
5) Opera [Prop]
6) Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws.
Console:
7) Pine. [NF]
8) Mutt.
9) Gnus.
10) tin.
11) slrn.
12) Xemacs.
13) BNR2. |
| Address book | Outlook | 1) Rubrica |
| Files downloading | Flashget, Go!zilla, Reget, Getright, DAP, Wget, WackGet, Mass Downloader, ... | 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. |
| Sites downloading | Teleport Pro, Httrack, Wget, ... | 1) Httrack.
2) WWW Offline Explorer.
3) Wget (console, standard). GUI: Kmago, QTget, Xget, ...
4) Downloader for X.
5) Pavuk.
6) XSiteCopy.
7) GetLeft.
8) Curl (console).
9) Khttrack. |
| FTP-clients | Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP, WSFTP, SmartFTP, FileZilla, ... | 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) |
| Console FTP-clients | FTP in Far, ftp.exe, Ncftp | 1) Ncftp.
2) Lftp.
3) Avfs. (From any program: /#ftp:...) |
| IRC-clients | Mirc, Klient, VIRC, Xircon, Pirch, XChat | 1) Xchat.
2) KVirc.
3) Irssi.
4) BitchX.
5) Ksirc.
6) Epic.
7) Sirc.
8) PJIRC. |
| Local network chat clients without server | 1) QuickChat
2) Akeni
3) PonyChat
4) iChat | 1) talk (console), ktalk.
2) Akeni.
3) Echat.
4) write, wall (chat between users of one machine) |
| Local messaging with Windows machines | 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, Gaim | 1) Licq (ICQ).
2) Centericq (Nearly all IM protocols, console).
3) Alicq (ICQ).
4) Micq (ICQ).
5) GnomeICU (ICQ).
6) Gaim. (Nearly all IM protocols)
7) Ayttm. (Nearly all IM protocols)
8) Kopete.
9) Everybuddy.
10) Simple Instant Messenger.
11) Imici Messenger.
12) Ickle (ICQ).
13) aMSN (MSN).
14) Kmerlin (MSN).
15) Kicq (ICQ).
16) YSM. (ICQ, console).
17) kxicq.
18) Yahoo Messenger for Unix.
19) Kmess (MSN).
20) AIM.
21) MSNre. (console) |
| Jabber IM clients | JAJC, Tkabber (+activestate tcl), Psi, Exodus, WinJab, myJabber, RhymBox, Rival, Skabber, TipicIM, Vista, Yabber, Miranda, Gaim, Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition | 1) Tkabber.
2) Gabber.
3) Psi.
4) Gaim.
5) Centericq (console).
6) Ayttm.
7) Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition. |
| Monitoring sites and mailboxes, displaying news headlines or full articles | WatzNew | 1) Web Secretary.
2) Knewsticker & korn.
3) Mozilla (???).
4) watch -n seconds lynx -dump |
| Video/audio conference | NetMeeting | 1) GnomeMeeting.
2) vat/vic/wb.
3) rat/wbd/nte.
4) NeVoT.
5) IVS. |
| Voice communication | Speak Freely | 1) Speak Freely for Unix.
2) TeamSpeak. |
| 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) f\r/e\e/n\e/t. (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) |
| "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.
2) ssh.
3) Remote management is built-in in XFree86.
4) Remote management is built-in in KDE 3.1. ("desktop sharing").
5) Rdesktop Client.
6) rsh / rlogin.
7) telnet.
8) Gtelnet.
9) x0rfbserver.
10) KDE Universal Remote Desktop. |
| 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 | Buddyphone [Prop], Cisco SoftPhone | 1) GNU Bayonne.
2) Openh323.
3) OpenPhone.
4) tkPhone.
5) NauPhone. |
| 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.
1) United Devices.
2) Seti @ Home.
3) Folding @ Home.
4) Genome @ Home. | 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).
2) Gnozip.
3) KArchiveur.
4) Gnochive.
5) FileRoller.
6) Unace.
7) LinZip.
8) TkZip. |
| 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. |
| Program for files and directories comparison | 1) Beyond Compare.
2) Araxis Merge.
3) WinMerge
4) Minimalist GNU For Windows (diff.exe)
5) Unison | 1) Mgdiff.
2) diff, patch.
3) Xemacs.
4) Xdelta. (make patches for binary files)
5) Meld.
6) Xxdiff.
7) Unison. |
| 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).
2) Gedit (Gnome).
3) Gnotepad.
4) Kate (KDE).
5) KWrite (KDE).
6) Nedit.
7) Vim.
8) Xemacs.
9) Xcoral.
10) Nvi.
11) Ozeditor. |
| Console text editor | 1) Vim
2) Emacs
3) Editor from FAR, editor from DN, ... | 1) Vim.
2) Emacs.
3) Nano. (It's a free implementation of pico)
4) joe.
5) Fte.
6) Jed.
7) CoolEdit. |
| Multi-purpose text and source code editor | SciTE, UltraEdit, MultiEdit, Vim, Xemacs, ... | 1) Kate (KDE).
2) Nedit.
3) CodeCommander.
4) SciTE.
5) Quanta Plus.
6) Vim.
7) Xemacs.
8) Mcedit (comes with mc).
9) Jed.
10) Setedit. (Turbo Vision looking style)
11) HT editor. |
| Text editor with cyrillic encodings support | Bred, Rpad32, Aditor, Vim, Xemacs | 1) Kate (KDE).
2) Nedit.
3) Fte (console).
4) Patched version of Midnight Commander.
5) Vim.
6) Xemacs. |
| Viewing PostScript | 1) RoPS
2) GhostView | 1) GhostView.
2) Kghostview.
3) GV.
4) GGV. |
| Viewing PDF | 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller
2) GhostView | 1) Acrobat Reader. [Prop]
2) Xpdf.
3) GV.
4) GGV.
5) GhostView.
6) Kghostview. |
| Creating PDF | 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller
2) GhostView
3) Ghostscript | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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).
2) chkconfig (Red Hat).
3) redhat-config-<feature>. (Red Hat 8.0).
4) xf86config, xf86cfg.
5) Linuxconf.
6) Drakeconf.
7) Webmin.
8) yast and yast2 (SuSE).
9) sysinstall (FreeBSD).
10) /dev/hands :). |
| 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)
2) GNU Parted. (GUI - QTParted).
3) Partition Image.
4) fips.
5) Diskdrake (Mandrake).
6) Paragon Partition Manager [Prop].
7) Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop]. (review) |
| 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.
2) Techteam's UDP Cast Disks.
3) Ghost for Unix (g4u). |
| Task manager | TaskMan (standard), TaskInfo, ProcessExplorer NT. | 1) top (console, standard).
2) Gtop, Ktop.
3) Ksysguard.
4) "ps aux|more", "kill <pid>" |
| Automatic switch between English and Russian when you type | Punto Switcher, Keyboard Ninja, Snoop | No analogs :(. |
| 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.
2) Ctrl+Alt+"-", Ctrl+Alt+"+".
3) Fbset. (when using framebuffer) |
| 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 (???)
2) mnoGoSearch. [prop for Windows] | 1) mnoGoSearch.
2) ASPSeek. |
| 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 :). |
| Program for logs viewing | Event Viewer (built-in) | 1) Xlogmaster.
2) Analog.
3) Fwlogview. (firewall) |
| 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.
2) Jconv.
3) Xcode. (cyrillic)
4) Asrecod. (cyrillic) |
| 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
2) Zinf
3) SnackAmp
4) Soritong
5) Apollo
6) K-jofol 2000
7) Sonique
8) C-4
9) Media Box Audio / Video Workstation 5
10) Blaze Media Pro
11) NEX 3
12) Real Jukebox
13) Windows Media Player | 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) |
| Console music / mp3 / ogg players | mpg123, dosamp, Mplayer | 1) Cplayer.
2) mpg123.
3) ogg123.
4) mpg321.
5) Orpheus.
6) Mp3blaster.
7) Madplay.
8) Console utils for xmms.
9) Mplayer. |
| Programs for CD burning with GUI | Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator, ... | 1) K3b. (KDE)
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). |
| 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=<speed>
2) hdparm -E <speed>
3) eject -x <speed>
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
2) Cdex
3) MusicMatch
4) Streambox Ripper
5) Audiocatalyst
6) Blaze Media Pro
7) Media Box Audio / Video Workstation
8) AudioSlimmer
9) Real Jukebox | 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. |
| 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.
2) FluidSynth.
3) Arts Builder (???). |
| ID3-Tag Editors | Mp3tag | 1) EasyTAG.
2) Cantus.
3) id3tool (console).
4) id3ed (console).
5) id3edit (console). |
| 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.
2) GQview.
3) Qiv.
4) CompuPic [Prop]
5) Kuickshow.
6) Kview.
7) GTKSee.
8) xv. [Prop]
9) pornview.
10) imgv.
11) Gwenview.
12) Gliv.
13) Showimg.
14) Fbi.
15) Gthumb.
16) PixiePlus.
17) Electric Eyes (Gnome).
18) Eye of Gnome.
19) GImageView.
20) Hugues Image Viewer.
21) Any web browser. |
| 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.
2) ImageMagick.
3) Pixel32. [Prop]
4) CinePaint.
5) RubyMagick.
6) Corel PhotoPaint 9. [Prop] |
| Programs for work with vector graphics | Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, AutoSketch, OpenOffice Draw | 1) Sodipodi.
2) xfig.
3) Sketch.
4) Karbon14 and Kontour.
5) OpenOffice Draw.
6) Dia.
7) Tgif.
8) Gestalter.
9) ImPress.
10) Tkpaint.
11) Tgif.
12) Corel Draw 9. [Prop] |
| SVG editor | WebDraw [Prop] | 1) Sodipodi.
2) Dia.
3) Sketch. |
| SVG viewer | 1) Squiggle
2) X-Smiles
3) SVG support in Mozilla
| 1) Squiggle.
2) X-Smiles.
3) SVG support in Mozilla.
4) SVG support in Konqueror. |
| 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.
2) Ming. (Creating flash swf output from programming languages) |
| 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.
2) Toolkit for Conceptual Modelling. |
| Create printed calendars, greeting cards, etc., with clip art collection | Broderbund Print Shop | ??? |
| Download pictures from digital camera | Polaroid Drivers | 1) Camera Tool (gtkam)
2) Gphoto2. |
| 4.3) Multimedia (video and other) |
| Video / mpeg4 players | 1) BSplayer
2) Zoomplayer
3) Windows Media Player
4) VideoLAN
5) Winamp3
6) Mplayer
7) RealPlayer
8) Xing
9) Simplayer | 1) Mplayer. (Frontend: Kplayer).
(LiveCD distribution of Mplayer - MoviX).
2) Xine. (Frontends: Sinek, Totem)
3) VideoLAN.
4) Aviplay.
5) Winamp3.
6) Noatun.
7) KDE Media Player.
8) XMovie.
9) Kaboodle.
10) MpegTV.
11) Avifile.
12) Xmps.
13) Ogg Tarkin. (???)
14) Theora. (???) |
| Console video / mpeg4 players | QuickView | 1) Mplayer.
2) QuickView. |
| 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.
2) Transcode.
3) Mencoder. (from Mplayer)
4) Ffmpeg.
5) DVD::Rip. |
| 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.
2) Mencoder. (from Mplayer)
3) Ffmpeg. |
| 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]
2) Plugins for Gimp. |
| Animation | Animation Shop, ... | 1) CinePaint.
2) Plugins for Gimp. |
| Landscape / terrain generation | Bryce | Terraform. |
| World construction | World Construction Set, Animatek
World Builder | ??? |
| Framework for developing video applications | ??? | 1) Gstreamer.
2) Live. |
| 5) Office/business. |
| Office suite | MS Office, StarOffice / OpenOffice, 602Software | 1) OpenOffice.
2) StarOffice. [Prop]
3) Koffice.
4) HancomOffice. [Prop]
5) Gnome Office.
6) Applixware Office. [Prop]
7) Siag Office.
8) TeX, LaTeX, ... |
| 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 | 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 | 1) Gnumeric.
2) Abacus.
3) StarOffice / OpenOffice Calc.
4) Kspread. |
| Graphing / charting data | Excel, MicroCall Origin, ... | 1) Kivio.
2) Dia.
3) KChart.
4) xfig.
5) Gnuplot.
6) GtkGraph.
7) GNU Plotutils.
8) Ploticus. |
| Creating presentations | MS PowerPoint, StarOffice Presentation, OpenOffice Impress | 1) StarOffice Presentation.
2) OpenOffice Impress.
3) Kpresenter.
4) MagicPoint.
5) Kuickshow & gimp :). |
| Local database | MS Access, InterBase6, OpenOffice + MySQL. | 1) KNoda.
2) Gnome DB Manager.
3) OpenOffice + MySQL.
4) InterBase7. [Prop]
5) InterBase6.
6) Berkley DB.
7) Rekall. [Prop]
8) StarOffice Adabase. |
| 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.
2) GnoFin.
3) Kmymoney.
4) Grisbi.
5) Moneydance. [Prop] |
| Project management | MS Project, Project Expert 7 | 1) Mr Project.
2) Outreach. |
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.
2) Gnome-games. |
| - | 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.
2) gLines. |
| - | 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) |