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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".

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