Table of Equivalent Software

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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

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To do

  • remove nonfree software
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Networking

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Email

Task Windows Unix
Graphical Email client
Email client / PIM in MS Outlook style

Outlook

Email client in The Bat style

The Bat

Console email client
Address book

Outlook

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Live communication (IM/IRC/VOIP)

Task Windows Unix
IRC clients
Jabber Instant Messenging protocol clients
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
  • QuickChat
  • Akeni
  • PonyChat
  • iChat
  • talk (console)
  • write (console)
  • wall (console)
  • Echat
Local messaging with Windows machines

WinPopUp

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Other Networking

Task Windows Unix
Graphical FTP clients
Console FTP clients
  • FTP in Far
  • ftp.exe
  • Ncftp
  • Ncftp (type ftp in console)
  • Lftp
  • Avfs (From any program: /#ftp:...)
Monitoring sites and mailboxes, displaying news headlines or full articles

WatzNew

Firewall (packet filtering)
IDS (Intrusion Detection System)
  • BlackICE
  • Agnitum Outpost Firewall
  • Tripwire
  • Kerio Personal Firewall
Port scanning detection

???

Making the system more securely

???

Visual route

VisualRoute

Traffic control / shaping

WinRoute Pro, ...

  • IP Relay
  • CBQ (from iproute2 package)
  • tc (from iproute2 package)
  • LARTC
Traffic accounting

Netstat, Tmeter, ...

Peer-to-peer clients / servers, file sharing (p2p)
"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

  • Gfax
  • mgetty + voice + sendfax
  • vgetty
Fax Software

WinFax

Dialup

Vdialer, etc

FTN editor

Golded

FTN tosser

FastEcho, hpt

FTN mailer

SF-Mail, T-Mail

Remote management
Remote management to remote beginners (e.g. Help Desk to Ubuntu newbie).

Assuming newbie PC not previously configured for remote management over internet.

Nothing found
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
Security scanner

ShadowScan, ISS, Retina, Internet Scanner

Routing

MS RRAS

Utilites and libraries for Ethernet/IP testing
Sharing data/files

Windows shares

???

Windows Domain, Active Directory

Viewing Windows-network

Network neighborhood

ADSL
Distributed computing
IPSEC protocol

-

FreeSWAN

VRML viewer and editor

???

White Dune

Auction Management Software

???

News reader

Console:

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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

???

  • cd /var/log/
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

Archiver
  • WinZip
  • WinRar
  • 7-Zip
  • WinACE
  • UltimateZip
Compression
  • arj
  • rar
  • 8zip
  • tar
  • gzip
  • bzip2
  • lha
  • gzip
  • bzip2
  • lzma

WARNING: The rest of these don't follow the Unix philosophy of one thing does one thing (they archive and compress).

Program for files and directories comparison
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:

Console text editor
  • Vim, Emacs Editor from FAR, editor from DN, ...

Complex:

Simple:

Multi-purpose text and source code editor
Text editor with cyrillic encodings support
Viewing PostScript
Creating PostScript

???

  • The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
  • Any KDE application that can print (select Print to File (PostScript) as the printer)
  • Any GNOME application that can print (select Generic PostScript as the printer)
Viewing PDFs
Creating PDF

Adobe Acrobat Distiller, GhostView, Ghostscript, OpenOffice.org Writer

Crypto

PGP, GnuPG + Windows Privacy Tools

Disc volume encryption

EFS (standard), PGP-Disk, BestCrypt, Private Disk Light

Task scheduler

mstask, nnCron

  • cron (KDE GUI frontend: KCron) (easy tutorial)
  • at (standard, console)
Outlook scheduler

Outlook scheduler

  • KOrganizer
Virtual CD

VirtualDrive, VirtualCD, Daemon Tools, ...

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.

System configuration

Control Panel, Msconfig, RegEdit, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, Config NT, ...

  • Setup (Red Hat)
  • chkconfig (Red Hat)
  • Fedora and RedHat system-config-*****
  • xf86config, xf86cfg
  • KControl
  • Linuxconf
  • Drakeconf
  • Webmin
  • yast and yast2 (SuSE)
  • sysinstall (FreeBSD)
  • Mission Control (Ark Linux)
  • Any text editor :)
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.

LVM + soft-RAID + parted + ...

-

EVMS

Backup software
Making images of disk partitions

DriveImage, Ghostpe

Machine mirroring over network
Task manager

TaskMan (standard), TaskInfo, ProcessExplorer NT.

  • KSysGuard (in every KDE installation)
  • htop
  • top (console, standard)
  • Gtop
  • Ktop
  • "ps aux|more", "kill <pid>"
Automatic switch between English and Russian when you type

Punto Switcher, Keyboard Ninja, Snoop

X Neural Switcher

Mouse gestures

Sensiva

TV program

???

Text to speech

MS Sam

Speech recognition

ViaVoice, DragonNaturally Speaking

  • Sphinx
  • ViaVoice (almost dead...)
Stream text processing
PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view
Program for quick switching between resolutions and frequencies

Integrated with system, comes on CD with video card

  • Multires
  • Ctrl+Alt+"-", Ctrl+Alt+"+" in X
  • Fbset (when using framebuffer)
  • krandrtray (part of KDE)
Search and replace text in files
  • Integrated with system
  • Indexing service
  • HTMLChanger
  • Any file manager
  • sed -e EXPRESSION `cat FILE` (find or locate) (console, standard)

GUI:

  • Gsearchtool
  • KFileReplace
  • Any file manager
Local search engine with SGBD for indexing

Indexing service (???), mnoGoSearch, [prop for Windows]

System monitoring

System monitor (built-in)

Program for logs viewing

Event Viewer (built-in)

Data Recovery Tools

R-Studio (supports Linux partitions)

Text files encoder with automatic detection of character set

???

Alarm clock

MindIt!

  • KAlarm (part of KDE PIM)
  • cron set to use mplayer or similar to play a sound
Work with Palm

Palm Desktop

Allows to carry on Palm .html files

iSilo

Low-level optimization (chipset, pci-bus)

Powertweak

Bible

On-Line Bible, The SWORD

Convenient mouse scrolling

Mouse Imp

???

Automatic change of desktop background

???

  • KDesktop
Convenient switching of the keyboard language

???

Windows registry editor

RegEdit

KRegEdit

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Multimedia

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Audio

Audio
Task Windows Linux
Useful links:

-

Linux MIDI & Sound Applications - many links and resources. Sound Software - lots of it.

Music / mp3 / ogg players


Console music / mp3 / ogg players

mpg123, dosamp, Mplayer

Programs for CD burning with GUI

Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator, ...

CD player

CD player, Winamp, Windows Media Player, ...

Slowing the rotation of CD

Slowcd, Cdslow

  • mount -o speed=<speed>
  • hdparm -E <speed>
  • eject -x <speed>
  • cdspeed.
CD ripping / grabbing
Tracker music player

Winamp, Windows Media Player, ...

Midi player

Winamp, Windows Media Player, ...

Midi + karaoke player

VanBasco

Mp3 encoders
OGG encoders

oggenc

oggenc

Work with Real protocol
Radio

VC Radio, FMRadio, Digband Radio

Audio editors

SoundForge, Cooledit, Audacity, ...

Multitrack audio processor

Cubase

Sound tracker

Fasttracker, ImpulseTracker

Sound mixer

sndvol32

Software for music notation

Finale, Sibelius, SmartScore

Midi-sequencer

Cakewalk

More infrormation: Midi-Howto.

Music creation

Cakewalk, FruityLoops

Synthesizer

Virtual waves, Csound, ZynAddSubFX

ID3-Tag Editors

Mp3tag, MusicBrainz

Guitar/Instrument Tuning software 
2) Digital Guitar Tuner

???

Record streaming audio into .MP3 files

Twins Stream Ripper

Stream Ripper.

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Graphics

Task Windows Unix
Graphic files viewer
  • ACDSee
  • IrfanView
  • Xnview
  • Windows Fax and Image viewer
  • Any web browser
Viewing the graphic files in console

QPEG

  • zgv
  • aalib
Simple raster graphics editor
Powerful raster graphics editor
Vector graphics editor
SVG editor
SVG viewer
Program for text decoration

Wordart, OpenOffice Draw

OpenOffice Draw

Program for ASCII-drawing

ANSI DRAW, Mazaika

Converting the graphic files in pseudographics

???

aalib.

Flash playing

Macromedia Flash Player

Flash creation

Macromedia Flash

  • DrawSWF
  • Ming (Creating flash swf output from programming languages)
3D modeling
Icon editor

Microangelo

  • Gnome-iconedit
  • KIconEdit
Small program for making screenshots
  • KSnapshot
  • built in KDE hotkey (set it with "kcmshell keys")
  • Xwpick
  • Xwd, xgrabsc
  • Motv (xawtv)
  • Streamer (video)
  • Integrated with window manager (various hotkeys)
Screen recorder
Drawing structure diagrams of the database

Access

Create printed calendars, greeting cards, etc., with clip art collection

Broderbund Print Shop

???

Download pictures from digital camera

Polaroid Drivers

  • Camera Tool (gtkam)
  • Gphoto2.
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Video & Other

Task Windows Unix
Video / mpeg4 players

(LiveCD distribution of Mplayer - MoviX)

Video formats

Windows Media, QuickTime

Recording the screen (and/or speakers) as a video

Snagit

Console video / mpeg4 players

QuickView

DVD players

PowerDVD, WinDVD, MicroDVD, Windows Media Player, VideoLAN

DVD rippers / encoders

Gordian Knot

Simple video creation and editing

Windows Movie Maker

Professional video production enviroment

Adobe Premiere, Media Studio Pro

Cutting video

Virtual Dub

Converting video

Virtual Dub, Mencoder (from Mplayer)

Work with TV-tuner / watch TV

AVerTV, PowerVCR 3.0, CinePlayer DVR, Mplayer, ...

Work with TV-tuner in console

-

Work with QuickTime format

QuickTime Player

Creation of 2D and 3D effects

Adobe After Effects

  • Plugins for Gimp.
  • Shake [Proprietary, $129.95]
Animation

Animation Shop, ...

Landscape / terrain generation

Bryce

Terraform

World construction

World Construction Set, Animatek World Builder

???

Framework for developing video applications

???

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Office/Business

Task Windows Unix
Office suite

MS Office, OpenOffice.org, 602Software

Office suite

WordPerfect Office 2000

OpenOffice.org

Word processor

Word, OpenOffice.org Writer, 602Text, Abiword

Spreadsheets

Excel, OpenOffice.org Calc, 602Tab

Graphing / charting data

Excel, MicroCall Origin, ...

Creating presentations

OpenOffice Impress, MS PowerPoint, StarOffice Presentation

Local database

MS Access, InterBase6, OpenOffice + MySQL.

Receiving the quotings, news, building graphs and analysing of the financial market.

Omega Research Trade Station 2000

The Market Analysis System (MAS)

Software for e-commerce and web business
Personal finances manager
  • MS Money
  • Quicken
Project management

MS Project, Project Expert 7

Financial Accounting Package (global)

???

  • Quickbooks
Financial accounting package (russian)

"1C: Accounting"

Financial accounting package (India & Asia)

???

Automation of the enterprise (russian)

"1C: Enterprise"

ERP/CRM (english)
ERP/CRM (russian)

"BOSS-Corporation"

Corporate docflow system (russian).
  • "Boss-Referent"
  • Documentum
  • "Delo"
  • Lanit:LanDoc
  • NauDoc
  • Documentum
  • "Boss-Referent" (without the client part)
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Games

Task Windows Unix
Where to get

Any general electronics store

list of games

here

shoot to knock down all objects

Snood

Frozen Bubble (Warning! Addictive! :P)

tetromino stacking

Tetris

online poker

???

-

Standard Windows games

-

Mines

-

Civilization

FreeCiv

-

Command&Conquer

FreeCNC

-

Warcraft II

FreeCraft

-

(Win)Digger

-

Arkanoid, Zball, ...

Lbreakout2

Quake series

-

CounterStrike

-

Urban Terror

Urban Terror

DOOM
Heretic
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