Table of Equivalent Software
From Libervis Wiki
Switched to the wonderful world of GNU/Linux or BSD but are not finding the applications that will do everything you did in Windows? Well, this table is for you! One thing you'll learn is that for certain tasks, there are many ways to do it in Unix.
The original table of equivalents is updated very infrequently and is too much for one person to maintain. So someone decided to make it into a wiki there. Both were immensely useful. However, the wiki has rules that we at Libervis do not support, including nonfree software in the Unix section (this isn't meant to be for Unix users looking for Windows programs, it's supposed to be for looking up Windows software (free or not) and finding a replacement). So we have decided to make our own.
The reason this is all on one page is so you can just come here and search for a Windows application you used to use without having to figure out how we categorized it, which could be different from how you would categorize it.
Contents |
To do
- remove nonfree software
Networking
World Wide Web
| Task | Windows | Unix |
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| Graphical Web browser | ||
| Console web browser | ||
| Download Manager |
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| Sites downloading | ||
| Content (ad / popup) filtering |
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| Task | Windows | Unix |
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| Graphical Email client |
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| Email client / PIM in MS Outlook style |
Outlook | |
| Email client in The Bat style |
The Bat | |
| Console email client | ||
| Address book |
Outlook |
Live communication (IM/IRC/VOIP)
| Task | Windows | Unix |
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| IRC clients | ||
| Jabber Instant Messenging protocol clients |
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| AOL Instant Messanging protocal clients | ||
| MSN Instant Messenging protocal clients | ||
| Yahoo! Instant Messenging protocal clients | ||
| ICQ Instant Messenging protocal clients | ||
| Other IM protocol clients |
??? | |
| VOIP | ||
| Video/audio conference |
NetMeeting | |
| Local network chat clients without server |
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| Local messaging with Windows machines |
WinPopUp |
Other Networking
| Task | Windows | Unix |
|---|---|---|
| Graphical FTP clients | ||
| Console FTP clients |
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| Monitoring sites and mailboxes, displaying news headlines or full articles |
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| Firewall (packet filtering) |
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| IDS (Intrusion Detection System) |
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| Port scanning detection |
??? | |
| Making the system more securely |
??? | |
| Visual route |
VisualRoute | |
| Traffic control / shaping |
WinRoute Pro, ... | |
| Traffic accounting |
Netstat, Tmeter, ... | |
| Peer-to-peer clients / servers, file sharing (p2p) |
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| "Hotline" p2p protocol clients / servers |
??? |
Clients: Servers: |
| Program for working with sound modem with many functions - from answerback and AON to fax device |
Venta Fax, PrimaFax |
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| Fax Software |
WinFax | |
| Dialup |
Vdialer, etc | |
| FTN editor |
Golded | |
| FTN tosser |
FastEcho, hpt | |
| FTN mailer |
SF-Mail, T-Mail | |
| Remote management |
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| Transmission of the files on modem |
HyperTerminal, Terminate, etc | |
| SSH clients |
Putty, Irlex, cygwin + ssh | |
| Network monitoring tool |
Dumeter, Netmedic | |
| Network maintenance tool |
HP OpenView, MS SMS, Tivoli | |
| Protocols analysing, sniffing |
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| Security scanner |
ShadowScan, ISS, Retina, Internet Scanner | |
| Routing |
MS RRAS |
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| Utilites and libraries for Ethernet/IP testing | ||
| Sharing data/files |
Windows shares |
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| ??? |
Windows Domain, Active Directory | |
| Viewing Windows-network |
Network neighborhood |
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| ADSL |
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| Distributed computing | ||
| IPSEC protocol |
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| VRML viewer and editor |
??? | |
| Auction Management Software |
??? | |
| News reader |
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Console: |
File Utilities
| Task | Windows | Unix |
|---|---|---|
| File manager in FAR and NC style |
FAR, Norton Commander, Disco Commander, Volcov Commander, etc | |
| File manager in Windows Commander style |
Total Commander (former Windows Commander) | |
| File manager in Windows Explorer style |
Windows Explorer | |
| Visual Shell |
??? | |
| Viewing all operations with files |
Filemon |
???
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| Work with UDF |
Roxio (former Adaptec) UDF Reader, Roxio Direct CD | |
| Work with multi session CD + recovering information from faulty multi session disks | ||
| Archiver |
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| Compression |
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WARNING: The rest of these don't follow the Unix philosophy of one thing does one thing (they archive and compress).
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| Program for files and directories comparison |
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| Batch file renaming |
Plugins to TotalCommander, ... |
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Desktop/System Software
| Task | Windows | Unix |
|---|---|---|
| GUI environment |
Windows Explorer | |
| GUI Text editor |
Complex: Simple:
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| Console text editor |
Complex: Simple: | |
| Multi-purpose text and source code editor | ||
| Text editor with cyrillic encodings support |
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| Viewing PostScript | ||
| Creating PostScript |
??? |
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| Viewing PDFs |
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| Creating PDF |
Adobe Acrobat Distiller, GhostView, Ghostscript, OpenOffice.org Writer |
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| Crypto |
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| Disc volume encryption |
EFS (standard), PGP-Disk, BestCrypt, Private Disk Light | |
| Task scheduler |
mstask, nnCron |
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| Outlook scheduler |
Outlook scheduler |
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| Virtual CD |
VirtualDrive, VirtualCD, Daemon Tools, ... |
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| Text recognition (OCR) |
Recognita, FineReader | |
| Translators (cyrillic) |
Promt, Socrat |
Ksocrat (???) |
| Compiled HTML (chm) viewer |
MS Help Center | |
| Eng-rus dictionaries (cyrillic) |
ABBYY Lingvo, Socrat, JaLingvo, phpMyLingvo | |
| Work with scanner |
Programs on CD with scanner, VueScan | |
| Antivirus |
AVG AntiVirus, NAV, Dr. Web, TrendMicro, F-Prot, Kaspersky, ... |
NOTE: Usually the only purpose for an anitvirus on Unix is a mailserver that serves Windows users. As long as you don't use the Internet as the user root, you should be safe.
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| System configuration |
Control Panel, Msconfig, RegEdit, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, Config NT, ... |
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| Boot loaders |
NTLDR, System Commander, PowerQuest Boot Magic, GAG, ... |
NOTE: Most use GRUB or LILO, so it won't be too easy finding support for other boot loaders. |
| Hard disk partitions manager |
NOTE: Most Unix OSs have a partitioner on the (first) installation disk.
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| LVM + soft-RAID + parted + ... |
- | |
| Backup software | ||
| Making images of disk partitions |
DriveImage, Ghostpe |
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| Machine mirroring over network | ||
| Task manager |
TaskMan (standard), TaskInfo, ProcessExplorer NT. |
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| Automatic switch between English and Russian when you type |
??? | |
| Mouse gestures |
Sensiva | |
| TV program |
??? | |
| Text to speech |
MS Sam |
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| Speech recognition |
ViaVoice, DragonNaturally Speaking |
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| Stream text processing |
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| PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view | ||
| Program for quick switching between resolutions and frequencies |
Integrated with system, comes on CD with video card | |
| Search and replace text in files |
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GUI:
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| Local search engine with SGBD for indexing |
Indexing service (???), mnoGoSearch, [prop for Windows] | |
| System monitoring |
System monitor (built-in) |
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| Program for logs viewing |
Event Viewer (built-in) |
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| Data Recovery Tools |
R-Studio (supports Linux partitions) | |
| Text files encoder with automatic detection of character set |
??? | |
| Alarm clock |
MindIt! |
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| Work with Palm |
Palm Desktop | |
| Allows to carry on Palm .html files |
iSilo | |
| Low-level optimization (chipset, pci-bus) | ||
| Bible |
On-Line Bible, The SWORD |
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| Convenient mouse scrolling |
??? | |
| Automatic change of desktop background |
??? |
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| Convenient switching of the keyboard language |
??? |
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| Windows registry editor |
RegEdit |
Multimedia
Audio
| Task | Windows | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Useful links: |
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Linux MIDI & Sound Applications - many links and resources. Sound Software - lots of it. |
| Music / mp3 / ogg players |
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| Console music / mp3 / ogg players |
mpg123, dosamp, Mplayer | |
| Programs for CD burning with GUI |
Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator, ... |
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| CD player |
CD player, Winamp, Windows Media Player, ... | |
| Slowing the rotation of CD |
Slowcd, Cdslow |
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