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| Application |
Windows Software |
GNU/Linux equivalents |
| Audio/CD applications |
| Audio editors |
SoundForge
Cooledit
Audacity
|
Glame
Rezound
Sweep
WaveForge
Sox
Audacity
GNUSound
Ecasound
SoundStudio
mhWaveEdit
|
| CD burning software |
Nero
Roxio Easy CD Creator
|
K3b (KDE)
XCDRoast
KOnCd
Eclipt Roaster
Gnome Toaster
CD Bake Oven
KreateCD
SimpleCDR-X
GCombust
WebCDWriter
CDR Toaster
Arson
CD-Me
|
| CD players |
CD player
Winamp
Windows Media Player
|
KsCD
Gtcd (Gnome) + tcd (console)
Orpheus (console)
Sadp
WorkMan
Xmcd
Grip
XPlayCD
ccd/cccd (console)
cdp (console)
BeboCD
|
| CD-ripping software |
Cdex
MusicMatch
Streambox Ripper
Audiocatalyst
WinDac
Audiograbber
Media Box Audio / Video Workstation
CD-Copy
Blaze Media Pro
Real Jukebox
Windows Media Player
Nero
VirtualDrive
VirtualCD
Audacity
|
Grip
Audacity
RipperX
tkcOggRipper
A Better CD Encoder
cdda2wav
Gnome Toaster.
Cdparanoia
Cd2mp3
Dagrab
SimpleCDR-X
RatRip
AutoRip
Sound Juicer
|
| ID3-Tag Editors |
Mp3tag
|
EasyTAG
Cantus
id3tool (console)
id3ed (console)
id3edit (console)
|
| Midi players |
Winamp
Windows Media Player
|
xmms
TiMidity++
Kmid
drvmidi/awemidi
pmidi (console, for ALSA)
playmidi
atmidi
|
| Midi-sequencers |
Cakewalk |
RoseGarden
Brahms
Anthem
Melys
MuSE
MidiMountain (KDE)
|
| Midi + karaoke player |
VanBasco |
Kmid
Gkaraoke
TiMidity++
|
| MOD/Tracker music player |
Winamp
Windows Media Player
|
xmms
MikMod (console)
xmp
TiMidity++
|
| Mp3 encoders |
Lame
Cdex
MusicMatch
Streambox Ripper
Audiocatalyst
Blaze Media Pro
Media Box Audio / Video Workstation
AudioSlimmer
Real Jukebox
|
Lame
Bladeenc
NotLame
gogo
|
| Multitrack audio processors |
Cubase |
Ecasound
Ardour
|
| Music composition and editing software |
Cakewalk, FruityLoops |
RoseGarden
Ardour
|
| Music/mp3/ogg players |
Graphical:
Winamp
Zinf
SnackAmp
Soritong
Apollo
K-jofol 2000
Sonique
C-4
Media Box Audio/Video Workstation
Blaze Media Pro
NEX 3
Real Jukebox
Windows Media Player
Text-based:
mpg123
dosamp
Mplayer
|
Graphical:
XMMS (X multimedia system)
Noatun
Zinf
Winamp
Xamp
GQmpeg
SnackAmp
Mplayer (Frontend: Kplayer)
Xine (Frontends: Sinek, Totem)
Text-based:
Cplayer
mpg123
ogg123
mpg321
Orpheus
Mp3blaster
Madplay
Console utils for xmms
Mplayer
|
| Musical notation applications |
Finale
Sibelius
SmartScore
|
LilyPond
Noteedit
MuX2d
|
| OGG encoders |
oggenc |
oggenc |
| Radio software |
VC Radio
FMRadio
Digband Radio
|
xradio
cRadio
Xmradio
RDJ
RadioActive
XMMS-FMRadio
Gqradio
Qtradio
|
| Realmedia utilities |
RealPlayer
Mplayer |
Mplayer
ReMedial
|
| Sound mixers |
sndvol32 |
Opmixer
aumix
mix2000
KMix
Alsamixer
GMix
wmix
|
| Streaming audio recorders |
Twins Stream Ripper |
Stream Ripper
|
| Synthesizer software |
Virtual waves
Csound
|
Csound
FluidSynth
|
| Desktop/System software |
| Alarm clock |
MindIt! |
KAlarm |
| Antivirus |
AVG AntiVirus
Norton Antivirus
Dr. Web
TrendMicro
F-Prot
Kaspersky
|
OpenAntivirus + AMaViS / VirusHammer
Sophie / Trophie
Clam Antivirus
YAVR
|
| Automated task scheduler |
mstask
nnCron
|
cron
at (console), GUI: Kcron
|
| Backup utilities |
ntbackup
Legato Networker
|
Disk Archive
Bacula
Taper
dump/restore (console)
Amanda (console)
Mondo Rescue
|
| Boot managers |
System Commander
PowerQuest Boot Magic
GAG
|
Grub
Lilo
ASPLoader
Ranish Partition Manager
osbs
Symon
Smart Boot Manager
Xosl
GAG
|
| Cryptography |
PGP
GnuPG + Windows Privacy Tools
|
GnuPG (GUI: GPA, KGpg, others
|
| Data Recovery Tools |
R-Studio |
e2undel
myrescue
TestDisk
unrm
Channel 16
|
| Dictionaries, English-Russian (cyrillic) |
ABBYY Lingvo
Socrat
JaLingvo
phpMyLingvo
|
Mueller
Ksocrat
JaLingvo
phpMyLingvo
dict+Kdict
DictX
Groan
Mova
Slowo
Stardict
|
| Disk encryption |
EFS (standard)
PGP-Disk
BestCrypt
Private Disk Light
|
Loop-aes
CFS
TCFS
BestCrypt
CryptFS
|
| Disk image software |
DriveImage
Ghostpe
|
PartitionImage (GUI - PartGUI)
dd (console)
Mondo Rescue
|
| Gesture recognition software |
Sensiva |
Kgesture
wayV
Optimoz
|
| HTML-viewers |
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Document Explorer
|
Dillo
Konqueror
Nautilus
Lynx
Links
|
| Indexing and web site search tools |
mnoGoSearch
|
mnoGoSearch
ASPSeek
|
| Log viewers |
Event Viewer |
Xlogmaster
Analog
Fwlogview (firewall)
|
| Mirroring over network |
ImageCast
Norton Ghost
|
UDP Cast
Techteam's UDP Cast Disks
Ghost for Unix (g4u)
|
| OCR (text recognition) software |
Recognita
FineReader
|
ClaraOcr
Gocr
Kooka
|
| Palm pilot utilities |
Palm Desktop |
Kpilot
Jpilot
|
| Partition managers |
PowerQuest Partition Magic
Acronis PartitionExpert
Paragon Partition Manager
Partition Commander
|
GNU Parted (GUI: QTParted, PartGUI)
Partition Image
fips
Diskdrake
|
| PDF creators |
1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller
GhostView
Ghostscript
|
ps2pdf
PDFLatex
Xfig
Ghostscript
Tex2Pdf
Reportlab
GV
GGV
GhostView
Kghostview
Panda PDF Generator
|
| PDF viewers |
Adobe Acrobat Distiller
GhostView
|
Xpdf
GV
GGV
GhostView
Kghostview
|
| Personal Information Manager (PIM) |
TreePad
Leo
CueCards
|
Yank
TreeLine
Gjots
Leo
Hnb - hierarchical notebook
TuxCards
|
| PostScript viewers |
RoPS
GhostView
|
GhostView
Kghostview
GV
GGV
|
| Scanner utilities |
VueScan
|
Xsane
Kooka
|
| Task planner, Outlook style |
Outlook scheduler |
KOrganizer |
| Speech recognition |
ViaVoice
DragonNaturally Speaking
|
Sphinx
ViaVoice
|
| System configuration |
Control Panel
Msconfig
RegEdit
WinBoost
TweakXP
Customizer XP
X-Setup
PowerToys
Config NT
|
Webmin
setup (Red Hat)
chkconfig (Red Hat)
redhat-config-<feature> (Red Hat 8.0)
xf86config, xf86cfg
Linuxconf
Drakeconf
yast and yast2 (SuSE)
sysinstall (FreeBSD)
|
| System monitoring |
System monitor |
top (console)
Gkrellm
Ksysguard
Survivor
|
| System optimizers (chipset, pci-bus) |
Powertweak |
Powertweak-Linux |
| System process manager |
TaskMan
TaskInfo
ProcessExplorer NT
|
top (console)
Gtop, Ktop
Ksysguard
|
| Text editors |
Graphical:
Notepad
WordPad
TextPad
Vim
Xemacs
Text-based:
Vim
Emacs
|
Graphical:
Kedit (KDE)
Gedit (Gnome)
Gnotepad
Kate (KDE)
KWrite (KDE)
Nedit
Vim
Xemacs
Xcoral
Nvi
Ozeditor
Text-based:
Vim
Emacs
Nano
joe
Fte
Jed
CoolEdit
|
| Text and source code editor |
SciTE
UltraEdit
MultiEdit
Vim
Xemacs
|
Kate (KDE)
Nedit
CodeCommander
SciTE
Quanta Plus
Vim
Xemacs
Mcedit (a component of mc)
Jed
Setedit
HT editor
|
| Text editors (Cyrillic support) |
Bred
Rpad32
Aditor
Vim
Xemacs
|
Kate (KDE)
Nedit
Fte
Vim
Xemacs
|
| Text-stream processing |
Minimalist GNU For Windows (sed.exe
perl
|
sed, awk
perl
|
| Text-to-speech software |
MS text to speech |
KDE Voice Plugins
Festival
Emacspeak
VoiceText
|
| Translators (cyrillic) |
Promt
Socrat
|
Ksocrat
|
| Virtual CD software |
VirtualDrive
VirtualCD
Daemon Tools
|
Virtual CD Kernel Module
|
| File utilities |
| Batch file renaming |
Plugins for TotalCommander, ... |
GPRename (Perl-based)
|
| CD data recovery |
IsoBuster |
CDFS
|
| Compression utilities |
Graphical:
WinZip
WinRar
7-Zip
WinACE
UltimateZip
Text-based:
arj, rar, zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, lha...
|
Graphical:
Ark (kdeutils)
Gnozip
KArchiveur
Gnochive
FileRoller
Unace
LinZip
TkZip
Text-based:
tar, gzip, bzip2
Unarc
Lha
Infozip
Arj
Avfs
Zoo
RAR
CAB Extract
|
| File/directory comparison |
Beyond Compare
Araxis Merge
WinMerge
Minimalist GNU For Windows (diff.exe)
Unison
|
Mgdiff
diff, patch
Xemacs
Xdelta
Meld
Xxdiff
Unison
|
| File manager, FAR and NC style |
FAR
Norton Commander
Disco Commander
Volcov Commander
|
Midnight Commander
X Northern Captain
Deco (Demos Commander)
Portos Commander
Konqueror in MC style
Gentoo
VFU
Ytree
|
| File manager, Windows style |
Windows Explorer/Internet Explorer |
Konqueror
Gnome-Commander
Nautilus
Endeavour Mark II
XWC
|
| File manager, Windows Commander style |
Total Commander (formerly Windows Commander) |
Krusader
Kcommander
FileRunner (TCL/TK)
Linux Commander
LinCommander
Rox
Rox-Filer
Emelfm
Midnight Commander
Worker
|
| File monitoring tools |
Filemon |
Filemon |
| UDF utilities |
Roxio (former Adaptec) UDF Reader
Roxio Direct CD
|
Linux-UDF |
| Graphics applications |
| 3D-graphics applications |
3D Studio MAX
Maya
Povray
|
Blender
KPovModeler
K3Studio
Moonlight
GIG3DGO
Povray
MegaPov
K3D
Wings 3D
Kludge3d
|
| ASCII art utilities |
ANSI DRAW
Mazaika
|
CanvASCII
Jave
ANSI Draw
EDASCII
|
| Database structure diagram applications |
Access |
Dia
Toolkit for Conceptual Modelling
|
| Digital camera utilities |
Polaroid Drivers |
Camera Tool (gtkam)
Gphoto2
|
| DVD players |
PowerDVD
WinDVD
MicroDVD
Windows Media Player
VideoLAN
|
Ogle
Mplayer
Xine
Aviplay
VideoLAN
OMS
|
| DVD rippers/encoders |
Gordian Knot
Mplayer/Mencoder
|
Ffmpeg
Drip
Transcode
Mplayer/Mencoder
DVD::Rip
|
| Flash editors |
Macromedia Flash |
DrawSWF
Ming
|
| Flash players |
Flash Player |
SWF Macromedia Flash Player
Netscape/Mozilla plugins)
|
| Graphics editors, basic |
Paint |
Kpaint
Tuxpaint
Xpaint
Gpaint
Killustrator
Graphtool
|
| Graphics editors, advanced |
Adobe Photoshop
Gimp
Paint Shop Pro
Pixel32
Corel PhotoPaint
Macromedia Fireworks
|
Gimp
ImageMagick
CinePaint
RubyMagick
|
| Icon editors |
Microangelo |
Gnome-iconedit
Kiconedit
|
| Image viewers |
ACDSee
IrfanView
Xnview
CompuPic
Windows Fax and Image viewer
|
Xnview
GQview
Qiv
Kuickshow
Kview
GTKSee
imgv
Gwenview
Gliv
Showimg
Fbi
Gthumb
PixiePlus
Electric Eyes (Gnome)
Eye of Gnome
GImageView
Hugues Image Viewer
|
| Screenshot utilities |
PrintScreen
Snag it
|
Ksnapshot
Xwpick
Xwd, xgrabsc
xawtv)
Streamer (video)
|
| SVG editors |
WebDraw |
Sodipodi
Dia
Sketch
|
| SVG viewers |
Squiggle
X-Smiles
|
Squiggle
X-Smiles
SVG support in Mozilla
SVG support in Konqueror
|
| Vector graphics applications |
Adobe Illustrator
Corel Draw
Freehand
AutoSketch
OpenOffice Draw
|
Sodipodi
xfig
Sketch
Karbon14 and Kontour
OpenOffice Draw
Dia
Tgif
Gestalter
ImPress
Tkpaint
Tgif
|
| Networking/Communications |
| Address book |
Outlook
|
Rubrica
|
| ADSL utilities |
RASPPPOE |
rp-pppoe
Pptp client
|
| Content filter and Popup blockers |
Proxomitron
ATGuard
Agnitum Outpost Firewall
Privoxy
MS ISA server
Guidescope
|
DansGuardian
Squid
Squidguard
Privoxy
JunkBuster
Zorp
Fork
Redirector
|
| Data/file sharing |
Windows shares |
NFS
Samba
Samba-TNG
FTP
|
| Download manager |
Flashget
Go!zilla
Reget
Getright
DAP
Wget
WackGet
Mass Downloader
|
Downloader for X
Caitoo
Prozilla
Wget
Kmago
Gnome Transfer Manager
QTget
Xget
Aria
Axel
Download Accelerator Plus
GetLeft
Lftp
|
| E-mail client |
Graphical:
Outlook Express
Netscape/Mozilla
The Bat
Eudora
Becky
Datula
Sylpheed
Sylpheed-claws
Opera
Text-based:
Mutt
Pine
Pegasus
Emacs
|
Graphical:
Evolution
Netscape/Mozilla messenger
Sylpheed
Sylpheed-claws
Kmail
Gnus
Balsa
Arrow
Gnumail
Althea
Liamail
Aethera
MailWarrior
Text-based:
Mutt
Gnus
Emacs
|
| Ethernet/IP testing |
lcrzo |
lcrzo |
| Fax software |
WinFax |
HylaFax
Efax
|
| Faxmodem software |
Venta Fax
PrimaFax
|
Gfax
mgetty + voice + sendfax
vgetty
|
| File transfer via modem |
HyperTerminal
Terminate
|
Minicom + lrzcz + Kermit
Msterm
Xtel
uucp
lrzsz + cu from uucp
|
| Firewall |
BlackICE
ATGuard
ZoneAlarm
Agnitum Outpost Firewall
WinRoute Pro
Norton Internet Security
Sygate Personal Firewall PRO
Kerio Personal Firewall
|
Iptables
Graphical front-ends:
Kmyfirewall
Easy Firewall Generator
Firewall Builder
Shorewall
Guarddog
FireStarter
IPCop
Zorp
|
| FTN (Fido Type Network) editor |
Golded |
Golded
Golded+
Msged
Qded
|
| FTN (Fido Type Network) mailer |
SF-Mail
T-Mail
|
ifcico
qico
Bforce
Binkd
|
| FTN (Fido Type Network) tosser |
FastEcho, hpt |
hpt
CrashEcho
Qecho
CrashMail II
Fidogate
ifmail
|
| FTP-clients |
Graphical:
Bullet Proof FTP
CuteFTP
WSFTP
SmartFTP
FileZilla
Text-based:
FTP in Far
ftp.exe
Ncftp
|
Graphical:
Gftp
Konqueror
KBear
Nftp
Wxftp
AxyFTP
mc
tkFTP
Yafc
Dpsftp
Text-based:
Ncftp
Lftp
Avfs
|
| IDS (Intrusion Detection System) |
BlackICE
Agnitum Outpost Firewall
Tripwire
Kerio Personal Firewall
|
Snort
Portsentry/Hostsentry/Logsentry
Tripwire
Tripwall
AIDE
ViperDB
Integrit
Cerberus Intrusion Detection System
MIDAS NMS
|
| Instant Messaging clients |
ICQ Lite
ICQ Corp
MSN
AIM
Yahoo
Trillian ICQ
Miranda
Gaim
|
Licq (ICQ)
Centericq (text-based, multiple IM protocols)
Alicq (ICQ)
Micq (ICQ)
GnomeICU (ICQ)
Gaim (multiple IM protocols)
Ayttm (multiple IM protocols)
Kopete
Everybuddy
Simple Instant Messenger
Imici Messenger
Ickle (ICQ)
aMSN (MSN)
Kmerlin (MSN)
Kicq (ICQ)
YSM (text-based, ICQ)
kxicq
Yahoo Messenger for Unix
Kmess (MSN)
AIM
MSNre (text-based)
|
| IP-telephony |
Buddyphone
Cisco SoftPhone |
GNU Bayonne
Openh323
OpenPhone
tkPhone
NauPhone
|
| IRC clients |
Mirc
Klient
VIRC
Xircon
Pirch
XChat
|
Xchat
KVirc
Irssi
BitchX
Ksirc
Epic
Sirc
PJIRC
|
| Jabber IM clients |
JAJC
Tkabber
Psi
Exodus
WinJab
myJabber
RhymBox
Rival
Skabber
TipicIM
Vista
Yabber
Miranda
Gaim
Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition
|
Tkabber
Gabber
Psi
Gaim
Centericq (text-based)
Ayttm
Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition
|
| LAN chat client |
QuickChat
Akeni
PonyChat
iChat
|
talk, ktalk
Akeni
Echat
write, wall
|
| Local messaging in Windows network environment |
WinPopUp
|
Graphical:
LinPopUp 2
Kpopup
Kopete
Text-based:
smbclient
|
| Modem dial-up software |
Vdialer, etc |
Kppp
X-isp
wvdial (incl. front ends: X-wvdial, kvdial, gtkdial)
Gppp
Kinternet
Rp3
pppconfig + pon + poff
Modem Lights
Netcount (text-based)
|
| Network maintenance tools |
HP OpenView
MS SMS
Tivoli
|
Big Brother
Cheops
Tkined
OpenNMS
|
| Network monitoring tools |
Dumeter
Netmedic
|
Big Brother
Gkrellm
Etherape
Nagios
Tkined
MRTG
Rrdtool
PIKT
AutostatusAutostatu
bcnu
mon
Sysmon
Spong
SNIPS
iptraf (text-based)
Ksysguard
OpenNMS
tcpdump
|
| News reader |
Graphical:
Agent
Free Agent
Xnews
Outlook
Netscape/Mozilla
Opera
Sylpheed
Sylpheed-claws
Dialog
Gravity
BNR2
|
Graphical:
Knode
Pan
NewsLeader
Netscape/Mozilla
Sylpheed
Sylpheed-claws
Text-based:
Mutt
Gnus
tin
slrn
Xemacs
BNR2
|
| News tickers, website and e-mail monitors |
WatzNew |
Web Secretary
Knewsticker + korn
watch -n seconds lynx -dump
|
| Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing |
Morpheus (Gnutella)
WinMX
Napster
KaZaA (Fasttrack)
eDonkey
eMule
TheCircle
Bittorrent
SoulSeek
Direct Connect
|
Mldonkey (eDonkey, Soulseek, Fasttrack, Gnutella, Open Napster, Direct Connect, BitTorrent)
LimeWire (Gnutella)
Lopster (OpenNAP)
Gnapster (OpenNAP)
cDonkey (eDonkey)
Gift
ed2k_gui
Gtk-Gnutella (Gnutella)
Qtella (Gnutella)
Mutella (text-based, Gnutella)
TheCircle
Freenet (fully anonymous p2p)
GNUnet
Lmule (eDonkey)
Xmule (eDonkey)
Bittorrent
PySoulSeek (Soulseek)
Direct Connect
QuickDC (Direct Connect)
OverNet
Apollon
GrapeWine (fully anonymous p2p)
Snark (Bittorrent)
|
| Protocol analysis, sniffers |
Sniffer Pro
EtherPeek (TokenPeek, AiroPeek)
Windump
Ethereal
MS Network Monitor
Iris
Lan Explorer
NetSniffer
Snort
|
Ethereal
Tcpdump
Etherape
Ntop
ipxdump (+ ipxparse for parsing)
Snort
|
| Remote system administration |
VNC, Virtual Network Computing
Remote Administrator (Radmin)
Remote Assistance
Symantec pcAnywhere
Windows Terminal Server
Rdesktop
Radmin
PC-Duo
Huey PC Remote Control (NT only)
Timbuktu Pro
LapLink
GoToMyPC
|
VNC, Virtual Network Computing
ssh
Rdesktop Client
rsh/rlogin
telnet
Gtelnet
x0rfbserver
KDE Universal Remote Desktop
|
| Routing |
MS RRAS |
iproute2 + iptables
GNU ZebraGNU Zebra
|
| Security scanners |
ShadowScan
ISS
Retina
Internet Scanner
|
Nessus
Nmap
|
| SSH tools |
Putty
Irlex
cygwin + ssh
|
Kssh
ssh/openssh
GTelnet (telnet, SSH, rlogin)
|
| Traceroute, grahical |
VisualRoute
|
Xtraceroute
Mtr
Geotrace
|
| Traffic accounting |
Netstat
Tmeter
|
Tcp4me
Getstatd
Ipacct
Ipac-ng
Ipaudit
Lanbilling
SARG (full Squid traffic)
Talinux
NetUP UserTrafManager
MRTG
NetTop
|
| Traffic control/Port shaping |
WinRoute ProM |
IP Relay
CBQ (from the iproute2 package)
tc (from the iproute2 package)
LARTC
|
| Video/audio conference |
NetMeeting |
GnomeMeeting
vat/vic/wb
rat/wbd/nte
NeVoT
IVS
|
| Voice communication |
Speak Freely |
Speak Freely for Unix
TeamSpeak
|
| Web browser |
Graphical:
Internet Explorer
Netscape/Mozilla
Opera
Firebird
Text-based:
Links
Lynx
Xemacs + w3
|
Graphical:
Netscape
Mozilla
Galeon
Konqueror
Firebird
Nautilus
Epiphany
Links
Dillo
Encompass
Text-based:
Links
ELinks
Lynx
w3m
Xemacs + w3
|
| Website downloaders |
Teleport Pro
Httrack
Wget
|
Httrack
WWW Offline Explorer
Wget (GUI: Kmago, QTget, Xget)
Downloader for X.
Pavuk
XSiteCopy
GetLeft
Curl
Khttrack
|
| Windows-network utilities |
Network neighborhood |
Samba
KDE Lan Browser, lisa
LinNeighborhood
xSMBrowser
Komba2
Konqueror
|
| Other network tools |
Windows Domain
Active Directory
|
OpenLDAP
Samba
yp
|
| Office/business applications |
| Complete office suites |
MS Office
StarOffice
OpenOffice
602Software
|
OpenOffice
Koffice
Gnome Office
Siag Office
LBA Office
|
| Database applications |
MS Access
InterBase6
OpenOffice + MySQL
|
KNoda
Gnome DB Manager
OpenOffice + MySQL
InterBase6
Berkley DB
StarOffice Adabase
|
| E-commerce applications |
Weblogic
IBM WebSphere Application Server
iPlanet
osCommerce
JOnAS
COCOON
|
JBoss
osCommerce
JOnAS
COCOON
|
| Graph/chart applications |
Excel
MicroCall Origin
|
Kivio
Dia
KChart
xfig
Gnuplot
GtkGraph
GNU Plotutils
Ploticus
|
| Personal finance managers |
MS Money
Quicken
Moneydance
|
GNUcash
GnoFin
Kmymoney
Grisbi
|
| Presentation applications |
MS PowerPoint
StarOffice Presentation
OpenOffice Impress
|
StarOffice Presentation
OpenOffice Impress
Kpresenter
MagicPoint
|
| Project management |
MS Project
Project Expert
|
Mr Project
Outreach
|
| Word processors |
Word
StarOffice Writer
OpenOffice Writer
602Text
Abiword
|
Abiword
WordPerfect
Ted
StarOffice Writer
OpenOffice Writer
Kword
LyX
Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment)
|
| Spreadsheets |
Excel
StarOffice Calc
OpenOffice Calc
602Tab
|
Gnumeric
Abacus
StarOffice Calc
OpenOffice Calc
Kspread
|
| Market analysis software |
Omega Research Trade Station 2000 |
The Market Analysis System (MAS)
|
| Programming and development |
| Assembler |
TASM, MASM, NASM |
NASM (Intel syntax)
FLAT Assembler
gas (AT&T syntax, from binutils)
|
| Basic |
Basic |
Hbasic
X-basic
Yabasic
SmallBASIC
|
| CASE-facility for UML |
ArgoUML
Together ControlCenter
|
Umbrello UML Modeller
Dia+Dia2Code
PoceidonCE (community edition)
ArgoUML
|
| Clipper compiler and preprocessor |
CA-Clipper
The Harbour Project
|
Clip
The Harbour Project
xHarbour
|
| CVS utilities |
WinCVS
TortoiseCVS
cvs for Windows
BitKeeper [Prop]
|
cvs
Cervisia (KDE)
Lincvs (Front-end for CVS)
SubVersion
|
| Debugger |
WinDbg
Minimalist GNU For Windows (gdb.exe)
|
gdb Frontends: ddd, xxgdb, mxgdb, CGDB
Vim scripts
[X]Emacs C-mode
KMD
NANA (Library)
|
| Disassembler, Reverse engineering tools |
SoftIce |
ldasm
|
| FoxPro |
Visual FoxPro |
qwerty |
| Game programming |
DirectX
libSDL
ClanLib
|
libSDL
ClanLib
|
| Graphical libraries |
WinAPI, MFC, VCL (C, C++)
Tk (Tcl, C)
Tkinter
wxWindows (C++)
wxPython (Python)
GTK+ (C, C++)
Qt (C++)
FLTK (C++)
AWT, Swing (Java)
Xaw/X-server (C)
|
X11/Xext (C) - low level libraries
Xt - X Toolkit (C) - reference X11 toolkit
Xaw - MIT Athena (C) - reference X11 toolkit
Xaw3d - MIT Athena 3D (C) - Athena with 3D-view
LessTif - opensource analog of Motif 1 (C)
OpenMotif (C)
Tk (Tcl, C)
Tkinter (over Tk for Python, Perl, etc)
wxWindows (C++) (over GTK+ - wxGtk or Motif - wxMotif)
wxPython (Python) (over wxWindows)
Qt (C++)
GTK+ (C, C++)
PyQt (over Qt for Python)
PyGTK (over GTK+ for Python)
Gtk::Perl (over GTK+ for Perl)
Qt for Perl (over Qt for Perl)
GtkAda (over GTK+ for Ada95)
FLTK (C++)
XView (C)
FOX (C++)
AWT, Swing (Java)
WinAPI and MFC through wine (C)
|
| HEX-editor |
Hiew
|
Biew
KHexEdit
hexedit (console)
GHex
|
| HTML/DHTML editor |
HomeSite
Coffeecup
|
Quanta Plus
Bluefish
WebMaker
Screem
Toppage
WebDesigner
ScriptEditor
August
Coffeecup/Linux
FCKeditor
|
| HTML editor, WYSIWYG |
Macromedia Dreamweaver
MS Frontpage
Netscape / Mozilla Composer
Openoffice HTML editor
|
Netscape / Mozilla Composer
Openoffice HTML editor
Amaya
GINF
JXHTMLEDIT (Java)
|
| IDE |
Microsoft VisualStudio .net
Emacs, XEmacs
Vim + ctags + scripts from vim.sf.net
Boa Constructor
PythonCard
|
CodeForge
Kdevelop + Qt3 Designer
Eclipse
Glade
Emacs, XEmacs
Vim + ctags + scripts from vim.sf.net
Boa Constructor
PythonCard
|
| IDE, C++ |
Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS
Minimalist GNU For Windows (mingw32-gcc.exe)
|
GCC (+ Motor or + Xwpe)
LinEdit
Rhide
Wxstudio
Eclipse
|
| IDE, Interbase/Firebird |
IBExpert |
IBAccess
IBWebAdmin (apache/php)
|
| IDE, Java |
JBuilder, IDEA |
Jbuilder
NetBeans
Eclipse
Sun ONE Studio
Vide
|
| IDE, Object Pascal |
Delphi
|
Lazarus + FPC
|
| IDE, Oracle Database development |
T.O.A.D.
SQL Navigator
PL/SQL Developer
|
Tora |
| IDE, Visual C++ |
Borland C++ Builder, MS Visual C |
Anjuta + Glade + Devhelp
Dev-C++
vtkBuilder
foxBuilder
wxDesigner
Gbuilder
Source Navigator
Vide
|
| Memory leak tracing |
Numega Bounds Checker
Rational Purify
|
MallocDebug
Valgrind
Kcachegrind
ElectricFence
dmalloc
ccmalloc
LeakTracer
memprof
mprof
dbx (for Sparc)
YAMD
Njamd
Mpatrol
|
| .NET-style Platforms |
MS .Net |
Mono
DotGNU/Portable.NET
|
| Object Request Broker (ORB) |
ORBIT
|
ORBIT
|
| Pascal |
Pascal, BP |
Freepascal
GNU Pascal (gpc)
RShell
|
| Prolog |
VisualProlog
Mercury
SICStus Prolog
|
GNU Prolog
Mercury
SWI-Prolog
CIAO Prolog
|
| Visual Basic |
Visual Basic |
Phoenix
KBasic
HBasic
Mono
|
| XML Editor |
XML Spy |
XMLMind XML Editor
Vim
Emacs
|
| Scientific/special programs |
| 3D-modelling applications |
CATIA
SolidEdge
|
CATIA
SolidEdge (as part of Unigraphics)
|
| Bitmap vectorizers |
MapEdit
Easy Trace
|
Autotrace
|
| CAD/CAM/CAE, basic |
AutoCAD Lite |
Qcad |
| CAD/CAM/CAE, advanced |
AutoCAD
Microstation
ArchiCAD
|
Varkon
Tomcad
Thancad
Fandango
Lignumcad
Giram
Jcad
QSCad
FreeEngineer
Ocadis
PythonCAD
OpenCascade
|
| Circuit emulators |
Electronic Workbench
Altera MaxPlus+
|
Geda
Oregano
Xcircuit
Gnome Assisted Electronics
SPICE
SPICE OPUS
NG-SPICE
|
| CNC (machining) software |
OpenCNC |
EMC
|
| Computer fan speed, temperature sensing tools |
SiSoft SANDRA
SiSoft SAMANTHA
|
Ksensors
Lm_sensors
xsensors
wmsensormon
|
| Desktop publishing systems, small |
MS Publisher |
Scribus
KWord
|
| Diagram and chart applications |
Microsoft Visio |
Kivio (Koffice)
Dia
KChart
xfig
Tgif + dotty
Tulip
JGraph + JGraphPad (Java)
|
| Econometrics Software |
Eviews
Gretl
|
Gretl
|
| Electronics design |
PCAD
OrCad
Visio
|
Eagle
Geda
|
| Engineering |
ANSYS |
ANSYS |
| Equation/math editor |
Mathtype
MS Equation Editor
OpenOffice Math
|
OpenOffice Math
MathMLed
Kformula (Koffice)
LyX
Texmacs
|
| Geographic Data Viewer |
Thuban |
Thuban |
| Geographic image processing software |
Erdas Imagine
ER Mapper
ENVI
|
ENVI |
| GIS (Geographical information system) |
ArcView |
Grass
Quantum GIS
PostGIS
FreeGIS
MapQuest
MapBlast
|
| Hard drive testing/benchmarking tools |
SiSoft SANDRA
SiSoft SAMANTHA
IOzone
|
hdparm
Bonnie++
IOzone
Dbench
Bonnie
IO Bench
Nhfsstone
|
| Mathematics applications (Maple style) |
Maple |
Maxima
MuPad
|
| Mathematics applications (MathCad style) |
Mathcad |
Gap |
| Mathematics applications (Mathematica style) |
Mathematica
|
Maxima
MuPad
NumExp
Mathomatic
|
| Mathematics applications (Matlab style) |
Matlab |
Matlab
Octave (+ Gnuplot)
Scilab
R
Yorick
rlab
Yacas
Euler
|
| Memory testing tools |
SiSoft SANDRA |
Memtest86 |
| Molecular drawing programs |
Chemdraw
Isisdraw
|
Xdrawchem |
| Motherboard monitoring tools |
MBMonitor
PCAlert
Speedfan
|
KSensors
KHealthCare (KDE)
Gkrellm + plugins + blackbox addons
|
| Oscilloscope emulators |
Winoscillo |
Xoscope |
| PLC software |
SoftPLC |
MatPLC
|
| Realtime Control |
SHA Sybera Hardware Access |
DIAPM RTAI - Realtime Application Interface |
| S.M.A.R.T disk tools |
Active SMART
|
smartctl
Hddtemp-0.3
IDEload-0.2.
Smartsuite-2.1.
Smartmontools
Ide-smart
Smartsuite
|
| Statistical analysis |
SPSS
Statistica
SalStat
|
PSPP
OpenStat2
SalStat
|
| Statistical Computing Language and Environment |
S-PLUS |
R |
| TeX, DVI editors |
WinEdt |
Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment)
Ktexmaker2
Tk LaTeX Editor
|
| Text processing, TeX style |
MikTex
emTeX (DOS)
|
TeX
TeTeX / LaTeX
LyX (WYSIWYM)
Kile
|
| Translation memory applications |
Trados Translators Workbench
Deja Vu
Star Transit
SDLX
OmegaT
|
OmegaT
|
| Video testing/benchmarking tools |
Final Reality
|
X11perf
Viewperf
|
| Server software |
| Anti-spam filter |
cygwin+Exim port |
SpamAssassin
Procmail
Mailfilter
Ñyrus-imap
Exim
POPFile
|
| Cluster filesystems |
1)GFS
ADIC
|
GFS
OpenGFS
Lustre
CXFS
GPFS
Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS)
Coda
Intermezzo
Convolo cluster
ADIC
|
| Database engines |
MS SQL
MySQL
IBM DB2
Oracle
Borland Interbase
FireBird
|
PostgreSQL
MySQL
mSQL
SAP DB
Linter (cyrillic)
FireBird
|
| Email server |
MDaemon
Hamster
|
Sendmail
Qmail
Postfix
Exim
|
| Email/PIM/Groupware server |
Microsoft Exchange |
OpenOffice.org Groupware Project
Amphora. (Zope/Qmail)
Tutos (Apache/PHP/Mysql/Sendmail)
Kroupware
PHPGroupware
LinuXchangE
Tiki CMS/Groupware (Apache/PHP/Mysql)
|
| FTP-server |
Internet Information Server
ServU
War FTP
BulletProof FTP server
FileZilla server
|
pure-ftpd
vsftpd
wu-ftpd
proftpd
gl-ftpd
ftp
PublicFile
Teepeedee
|
| Java Servlets/JSP server |
Tomcat |
Tomcat |
| Mail downloader |
MDaemon |
Fetchmail |
| Proxy server |
MS Proxy Server
WinGate
|
Squid
Paco
Privoxy
Wwwoffle
OOPS
|
| Server statistics, advanced |
AWStats
|
AWStats
ANALOG (Web-server)
|
| Web-development languages |
PHP
Perl
ASP
|
PHP
Perl
ASP/Apache
|
| Web-server |
Apache
IIS
Roxen
wn
cern-httpd
dhttpd
caudium
aolserver
Boa
|
Apache
Xitami
Thttp
TUX (Red Hat Content Accelerator)
PublicFile
Boa
Caudium
Roxen
Thy
|
| Video and other Multimedia utilities |
| Animation utilities |
Animation Shop |
CinePaint
Gimp plugins
|
| QuickTime utilities |
QuickTime Player |
QuickTime
Mplayer + Sorenson codec
OpenQuicktime
Xanim
|
| Terrain generation |
Bryce |
Terraform |
| TV-tuner utilities |
AVerTV
PowerVCR 3.0
CinePlayer DVR
Mplayer
|
Tvtime
Kwintv
Xawtv
Zapping
GnomeTV
Mplayer
Xawdecode
|
| Video/mpeg4 players |
BSplayer
Zoomplayer
Windows Media Player
VideoLAN
Winamp3
Mplayer
RealPlayer
Xing
Simplayer
|
Mplayer (Frontend: Kplayer)
MoviX
Xine (Frontends: Sinek, Totem)
VideoLAN
Aviplay
Winamp3
Noatun
KDE Media Player
XMovie
Kaboodle
MpegTV
Avifile
Xmps
|
| Video conversion tools |
Virtual Dub
Mplayer/Mencoder
|
Ffmpeg
Transcode
Mplayer/Mencoder
|
| Video cutting |
Virtual Dub |
Avidemux
Kino
|
| Video editing, basic |
Windows Movie Maker |
Broadcast 2000
Avidemux
|
| Video editing, professional |
Adobe Premiere
Media Studio Pro
|
iMira Editing
Cinelerra
MainActor
Broadcast 2000
Lives
CinePaint
Heroine Virtual
|
