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Linux equivalents to popular Windows software
Discuss Linux equivalents to popular Windows software
Posted by: hilowe
I found this link on another forum. I thought it might be useful to people around here. This is a table that lists Windows programs, and their equivalent open source programs.
[url]http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml[/url]
Edit:
The first link posted here no longer works. Here is a link to another site with the same information. Link can also be found on the second page.
[url]http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents[/url]
Posted by: bigbmxdave
Thats going into my favourites :)
Posted by: geffin
It's really amazing, if you were to add up the cost of all the programs that are in the windows collum, you would have the equivilant of Bill Gate's budget. But if you add up the cost of all of the programs in the linux colum, you could go buy a new computer! ($0)!!! I love open source.
Posted by: macdude425
Actually geffin, some of the items in the Linux column do cost money.
Posted by: Scorpio(Max)
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Posted by: MDupreejr
Far fewer and thye are on average far less than the windows colum though :)
Posted by: Fabyfakid
OpenOffice is the best there is...It's amazing how the guys reversed-engineered Microsoft's MS Office programs in order to make .doc, etc. available as open source.
Posted by: Qiranworms
Stickied. :)
Posted by: Polymorphic
AAAND you dont need to tell clippy to wank off!
--Poly
Posted by: Timothypir2
not nearly a compleat list on windows side I got about half way down full functionality $600 that is windows and office
Posted by: hilowe
The guy that maintains the list has a couple of notes at the top that you must not have seen.
"For those who interested more in Windows-software:
1) The "Windows" row in this table is not main. That's why it does not contains _absolutely_ all of existing software - only the best and popular programs"
"Attention! There may be many mistakes and bugs in the table!! "
The author also gives links to add progrmas, and to report mistakes and bugs. If you see something there that is wrong, or needs to be added, follow the directions at the top of the page.
PS. thanks for stickying this qiranworms
Posted by: phoenix
Just installed linux.I was looking at the equivalents to popular windows software.Tried to download some p2p but isn't installing properly.Can someone help?
Posted by: gman2
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by phoenix [/i]
[B]Just installed linux.I was looking at the equivalents to popular windows software.Tried to download some p2p but isn't installing properly.Can someone help? [/B][/QUOTE]
What p2p software are you attempting to install? And what is yoir distribution? Limewire tends to work well on most distros of *nix
Posted by: 360Man
There are products that are equivilent however the names are always really stupid in linux.
Open Office = MS Office.
And because of stupid naming I cant recall any others.
Posted by: macdude425
Now tell me, how is OpenOffice's name stupid?
Posted by: hilowe
[url]http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents[/url]
All right, I found the same table on another site. Supposedly, this site is going to be updated more often. The original site hasn't been updated since 2003, and this one will supposedly be constantly updated.
Posted by: shuaibao
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Fabyfakid [/i]
[B]OpenOffice is the best there is...It's amazing how the guys reversed-engineered Microsoft's MS Office programs in order to make .doc, etc. available as open source. [/B][/QUOTE]
I'll second that. Very very awesome. I use it in place of Office on windows.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by hilowe [/i]
[B][url]http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents[/url]
All right, I found the same table on another site. Supposedly, this site is going to be updated more often. The original site hasn't been updated since 2003, and this one will supposedly be constantly updated. [/B][/QUOTE]
Alrite! And plus, this is an open wiki, so people can add some if they want to freely! Instead of emailing the admin.
Awesome job finding this hilowe.
Awesome info.
EDIT: one of the reasons I'm keeping Windows on my laptop is the lack of a real Macromedia Flash editor on Linux. Cry.
Posted by: hilowe
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by hilowe [/i]
[B][url]http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]
Just a heads up on this site. This is the link that I posted just above.
Apparently, the site has been spammed, and the table of equivalents was deleted by someone. There is currently only links to hotels and furniture on the site.
You can click the history tab, and go back to previous versions of the table, but to get past all of the advertising, it appears to me that you have to go to Aug 22nd.
Posted by: TSHF
For Adobe Pagemaker and Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher, there is Scribus. You can save it as a .inx file to open it up in Adobe later on.
Posted by: Qiranworms
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by 360Man [/i]
[B]There are products that are equivilent however the names are always really stupid in linux.
Open Office = MS Office.
And because of stupid naming I cant recall any others. [/B][/QUOTE]
What would be a non-stupid name for Open Office? And some others?
Oh yes...Chankama, you're right. Original link's broken. Wonder if it's temporarily dead or it's gone for good...
Posted by: Amd64Boy
i think im gona make a program that can light Microsoft Words clippy on fire, or get run over and stuff, suggestions?
Posted by: eklypze
Great list. I sure could use this. ;)
Posted by: Tyler1989
Audacity, free music editer and exports in wav, orbis, or mp3. Rivals window's music editer's.
[url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/[/url]
Gparted, a free GPL licensed Linux CD that partitions hard drives looks exactly like partition magic and performs the same functions as partition magic. It's also free.
[url]http://gparted.sourceforge.net/[/url]
Posted by: aliasaid
took me a while to figure out how to revert to previous pages on the wiki site ><.. but i got rid of the spam and put the previous thing in the games section :D
Posted by: saxofoner
Hey um... I was looking at that list today, May 19 2006, and a bunch of stuff has been spammed with porn links, cheap drug ads, and other crap.
Posted by: hilowe
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by saxofoner [/i]
[B]Hey um... I was looking at that list today, May 19 2006, and a bunch of stuff has been spammed with porn links, cheap drug ads, and other crap. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yea, it's a wiki, and unfortuneately, pretty easy to change to add spam.
They have a response on their main page about the spam, and how to deal with it.
[QUOTE][i]Copied from Table of Equivalents[/i]
Dealing With Spam
We got a lot of spam from random IP's on the original table. I ban the offenders, but it hasn't fixed the problem. Now that I've split up the page into multiple pages, I fear the amount of spam will rise. I can't keep up with it, and need your help in reverting the spam.
[b]If you find spam on a page, then please click the History tab, find the most recent revision that is free of spam (click on the Date). Then hit the Edit button for that revision, and just Save. This will revert the page to the most recent version that was free of spam. It's that simple. [/b]
And then make any changes (don't make changes and do the reversion all in one). [/QUOTE]
Posted by: suicide007
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Amd64Boy [/i]
[B]i think im gona make a program that can light Microsoft Words clippy on fire, or get run over and stuff, suggestions? [/B][/QUOTE]
have him get chased and gunned down by an army of linux penguins. And out of curiosoty, (i butchered taht word), what language are you gonna use.
Posted by: andrewsvalesen
Do torrents work on linux? I haven't dled Utorrent in ages.
Posted by: Law
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by andrewsvalesen [/i]
[B]Do torrents work on linux? I haven't dled Utorrent in ages. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yes, there are torrent clients for Linux.