Equivalent Windows Applications
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Alternative programs list for users that have Windows programs but dont know the actual OSS/Linux based equivalents. Thanks to the beauty of the open copyright, we can reproduce the orginal table found here
| Windows Program | OSS/Linux Equivalent |
| Photoshop | The Gimp *, Krita, Pixel image editor (commercial application) |
| Microsoft Office | OpenOffice * |
| Internet Explorer | Mozilla Firefox *, Opera *, Epiphany |
| Winamp | XMMS, BMPx (was: Beep-Media-Player) |
| iTunes | Rhythmbox, amaroK (Playing) - GTKPod (Synching), Banshee |
| Mirc | XChat *, XChat-GNOME, Konversation, irssi *, Pidgin * |
| AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber | Pidgin *, Kopete, Centericq |
| MSN (with voice and video support) | AMSN, Mercury |
| Premiere (Movie Editing) | Kino *, Cinelerra |
| DreamWeaver, FrontPage | Nvu *, Bluefish, Quanta-Plus |
| Cdex | SoundJuicer |
| Nero | K3B, Gnomebaker, Nero for Linux |
| Outlook Professional | Evolution, Kontact |
| Outlook Express | Thunderbird *, Balsa, Sylpheed, Kmail |
| Partition Magic | Gparted, QTparted, Fdisk, Cfdisk |
| Download Accelerator (Flashget) | D4X, Wget, Kget |
| WSFTP, CuteFTP | GFTP, Kbear, NCFTP, (Nautilus), (Konqueror) |
| NetMeeting | GnomeMeeting or Ekiga |
| Voice Chat (Ventrilo) | TeamSpeak |
| VOIP (Skype, Gizmo) | Skype *, Gizmo *, Wengo * |
| Firewall (ZoneAlarm, BlackIce) | Firestarter, Guarddog |
| WinFax | HylaFax |
| Windows Picture and Fax Viewer | Eye Of Gnome, Gwenview |
| DVD playing (InterActual) | Ogle, Mplayer, Kaffeine |
| Visio | Dia, Dia-Gnome, Kivio [1] |
| Publisher | Scribus |
| WordProcessor (StandAlone) | Abiword * |
| Notepad | Emacs, Gedit *, Kedit, Vim, Nano * |
| Spreadsheet (StandAlone) | Gnumeric |
| Quicken | Gnucash, KMyMoney, Moneydance |
| Cakewalk (Audio Engineering) | Audacity, RoseGarden, Rezound, LMMS |
| AcroBat Reader | AcroRead, XPDF, Evince, KPDF |
| RealPlayer | RealPlayer, Mplayer |
| Remote Desktop | Rdesktop, VNC *, Terminal Services Client |
| CAD | QCad |
| News Feeds/Aggregation | Akregator, Straw, Knode, Liferea |
| Project Management | Planner |
* These are cross-platform programs you can recommend to Windows users hesitant to make the switch to linux.
For deeper information please check the "table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux".
