# The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. (Official site of the table)
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The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.
Last update: 16.07.2003, 31.01.2005, 27.05.2005, 04.12.2006, 07.07.2007, 25.11.2007, 29.12.2011 (in progress)

You can always find the last version of this table on the official site:
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/.

This page on other languages: Russian, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Polish.

One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often don't know too much about Windows :). This list of Linux equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software is based on our own experience and on the information obtained from the visitors of this page (thanks!).

This table is not static since new application names can be added to both left and the right sides. Also, the right column for a particular class of applications may not be filled immediately. In future, we plan to migrate this table to the PHP/MySQL engine, so visitors could add the program themselves, vote for analogs, add comments, etc.

If you want to add a program to the table, send mail to winlintable[a]linuxrsp.ru with the name of the program, the OS, the description (the purpose of the program, etc), and a link to the official site of the program (if you know it). All comments, remarks, corrections, offers and bugreports are welcome - send them to winlintable[a]linuxrsp.ru.

Notes:
1) By default all Linux programs in this table are free as in freedom. (Definitions of Free Software: FSF and Debian). Proprietary software for Linux is marked with the sign [Prop]. Non-free software (open source or relatively free, but have certain restrictive limits) is marked with the sign [NF].
2) If there is nothing in the field of the table, except "???" - the authors of the table do not know what to place there.
3) If the sign (???) stands after the name of the program - the authors of the table are not sure about this program.

The important ideological difference between Windows and Linux:
The majority of the Windows programs are made on principle "all-in-one" (each developer adds everything to his or her product). In the same way, this principle is called the "Windows-way".
The ideology of UNIX/Linux - one component or one program must execute only one task, but execute it well. ("UNIX-way"). The programs under Linux can be thought of as being like the LEGO building blocks. (for instance, if there is a program for spell checking, it can be used with the text editor or email client; or if there is the powerful command-line program for files downloading, it is simple to write the graphic interface (Front-end) for it, etc).
This principle is very important and it is necessary to know it while searching for analogs of Windows-programs in Linux :).

You can read more about it in the book "Linux and the Unix Philosophy". There is a chapter in the book that specifically addresses philosophical differences between Windows and Linux.

Attention! There may be many mistakes and bugs in the table!! (report about the bugs).

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.
2) Many of the Linux programs can be run on Windows - with CygWin and other Linux emulators.

Places where you can get Linux software:
FreshMeat.net | SourceForge.net - Two biggest portals. You can find everything you want!!
LinuxApps.com | IceWalkers.com | Linux.Tucows.com - I like these catalogs.
Download.com / Linux | LinuxSoftware.org | FileWatcher.org | LinuxArchives.com - other catalogs.
Programs / packages / libraries search systems: RPMseek.org | Tuxfinder.com | RPMfind.net

Programs and games for Windows, that can be run under Wine/WineX:
1) The official catalog of Windows apps, running under Wine. (from Codeweavers). There are already more than 1000 applications in the database, so the catalog is structured and has a navigation system.
2) The official list of Windows games, that can be run under WineX (fromTransgaming). This is a search form, and this is a full list of games (very big!).

The Sections:
1) Networking.
2) Work with files.
3) Desktop / System software.
4) Multimedia:
4.1) Audio / CD.
4.2) Graphics.
4.3) Video and other.
5) Office/business.
6) Games.
7) Programming and development.
8) Server software.
9) Scientific and special programs.
10) Emulators.
11) Other / Humour :).

Description of the program, executed task | Windows | Linux
1) Networking.
Web browser | Internet Explorer, Opera [Prop], Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome ... | 1) Firefox. 2) Chromium / Google Chrome 3) Konqueror. 4) Opera. [Prop] 5) Midori. 6) SeaMonkey. 7) Epiphany. 8) Links. (with "-g" key). 9) Dillo. 10) Galeon.
Console web browser | 1) Links 2) Lynx 3) Xemacs + w3. | 1) Links. 2) ELinks. 3) Lynx. 4) w3m. 5) Xemacs + w3.
Email client | Outlook Express, Thunderbird, The Bat, Eudora, Becky, Datula, Sylpheed / Claws Mail, Opera | 1) Evolution. 2) Thunderbird. 3) Sylpheed. 4) Claws Mail. 5) Kmail. 6) Gnus. 7) Balsa. 8) Opera Mail. 9) Arrow. 10) Gnumail. 11) Althea. 12) Aethera. 13) MailWarrior.
Email client / PIM in MS Outlook style | Outlook | 1) Evolution. 2) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 3) Aethera. 4) Sylpheed. 5) Claws Mail
Email client in The Bat style | The Bat | 1) Sylpheed. 2) Claws Mail 3) Kmail. 4) Gnus. 5) Balsa.
Console email client | Mutt [de], Pine, Pegasus, Emacs | 1) Pine. [NF] 2) Mutt. 3) Gnus. 4) Elm. 5) Emacs.
News reader | 1) Agent [Prop] 2) Free Agent 3) Xnews 4) Outlook 5) Netscape / Mozilla 6) Opera [Prop] 7) Sylpheed / Claws Mail 8) Dialog 9) Gravity 10) BNR2 | 1) Knode. 2) Pan. 3) NewsReader. 4) Netscape / Mozilla Thunderbird. 5) Opera [Prop] 6) Sylpheed / Claws Mail. Console: 7) Pine. [NF] 8) Mutt. 9) Gnus. 10) tin. 11) slrn. 12) Xemacs. 13) BNR2.
Address book | Outlook | 1) Rubrica
Files downloading | Flashget, Go!zilla, Reget, Getright, DAP, Wget, WackGet, Mass Downloader, ... | 1) Downloader for X. 2) Caitoo (former Kget). 3) Prozilla. 4) Wget (console, standard). 5) GUI for Wget: Kmago, Gnome Transfer Manager, QTget, Xget, ... 6) Aria. 7) Axel. 8) Download Accelerator Plus. 9) GetLeft. 10) Lftp.
Sites downloading | Teleport Pro, Httrack, Wget, ... | 1) Httrack. 2) WWW Offline Explorer. 3) Wget (console, standard). GUI: Kmago, QTget, Xget, ... 4) Downloader for X. 5) Pavuk. 6) XSiteCopy. 7) GetLeft. 8) Curl (console). 9) Khttrack.
FTP-clients | Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP, WSFTP, SmartFTP, FileZilla, ... | 1) Gftp. 2) Konqueror. 3) KBear. 4) IglooFTP. [Prop] 5) Nftp. 6) Wxftp. 7) AxyFTP. 8) mc. (cd ftp://...) 9) tkFTP. 10) Yafc. 11) Dpsftp. (dead project)
Console FTP-clients | FTP in Far, ftp.exe, Ncftp | 1) Ncftp. 2) Lftp. 3) Avfs. (From any program: /#ftp:...)
IRC-clients | Mirc, Klient, VIRC, Xircon, Pirch, XChat | 1) Xchat. 2) KVirc. 3) Irssi. 4) BitchX. 5) Ksirc. 6) Epic. 7) Sirc. 8) PJIRC.
Local network chat clients without server | 1) QuickChat 2) Akeni 3) PonyChat 4) iChat | 1) talk (console), ktalk. 2) Akeni. 3) Echat. 4) write, wall (chat between users of one machine)
Local messaging with Windows machines | WinPopUp | smbclient (console). GUI: 1) LinPopUp 2. 2) Kpopup. 3) Kopete.

Instant Messaging clients

ICQ Lite, ICQ Corp, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ...
Trillian ICQ (freeware, can replace all common IM clients), Miranda, Pidgin

1) Licq (ICQ).
2) Centericq (Nearly all IM protocols, console).
3) Alicq (ICQ).
4) Micq (ICQ).
5) GnomeICU (ICQ).
6) Pidgin. (Nearly all IM protocols)
7) Ayttm. (Nearly all IM protocols)
8) Kopete.
9) Everybuddy.
10) Simple Instant Messenger.
11) Imici Messenger.
12) Ickle (ICQ).
13) aMSN (MSN).
14) Kmerlin (MSN).
15) Kicq (ICQ).
16) YSM. (ICQ, console).
17) kxicq.
18) Yahoo Messenger for Unix.
19) Kmess (MSN).
20) AIM.
21) MSNre. (console)

Jabber IM clients | JAJC, Tkabber (+activestate tcl), Psi, Exodus, WinJab, myJabber, RhymBox, Rival, Skabber, TipicIM, Vista, Yabber, Miranda, Pidgin., Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition | 1) Tkabber. 2) Gabber. 3) Psi. 4) Pidgin.. 5) Centericq (console). 6) Ayttm. 7) Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition.
Monitoring sites and mailboxes, displaying news headlines or full articles | WatzNew | 1) Web Secretary. 2) Knewsticker & korn. 3) Mozilla (???). 4) watch -n seconds lynx -dump
Video/audio conference | NetMeeting | 1) GnomeMeeting (Ekiga Now). 2) vat/vic/wb. 3) rat/wbd/nte. 4) NeVoT. 5) IVS.
Voice communication | Speak Freely | 1) Speak Freely for Unix. 2) TeamSpeak.

Firewall (packet filtering)

BlackICE, ATGuard, ZoneAlarm, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, WinRoute Pro, Norton Internet Security, Sygate Personal Firewall PRO, Kerio Personal Firewall, ...

iptables or more outdated ipchains (console, standard). Front ends:
1) Kmyfirewall.
2) Easy Firewall Generator.
3) Firewall Builder.
4) Shorewall.
5) Guarddog.
6) FireStarter.
7) Smoothwall. [Prop]
8) IPCop.
9) Zorp.

IDS (Intrusion Detection System) | 1) BlackICE 2) Agnitum Outpost Firewall 3) Tripwire [prop] 4) Kerio Personal Firewall | 1) Snort. 2) Portsentry / Hostsentry / Logsentry. 3) Tripwire [GPL]. 4) Tripwall. 5) AIDE. 6) ViperDB. 7) Integrit. 8) Cerberus Intrusion Detection System. 9) MIDAS NMS.
Port scanning detection | ??? | 1) Pkdump.
Making the system more securely | ??? | 1) Bastille. 2) Linux Security Auditing Tool.
Visual route | VisualRoute [Prop] | 1) Xtraceroute. 2) VisualRoute. [Prop] 3) Mtr. 4) Geotrace.
Content (ad / popup) filtering | Proxomitron, ATGuard, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, Privoxy, MS ISA server, Guidescope, ... | 1) DansGuardian. 2) Squid. 3) Squidguard. 4) Privoxy. 5) JunkBuster. 6) Zorp. 7) Fork. 8) Redirector.
Traffic control / shaping | WinRoute Pro, ... | 1) IP Relay. 2) CBQ (from iproute2 package). 3) tc (from iproute2 package). 4) LARTC.
Traffic accounting | Netstat, Tmeter, ... | 1) Tcp4me. 2) Getstatd. 3) Ipacct. 4) Ipac-ng. 5) Ipaudit. 6) Lanbilling. 7) SARG (full Squid traffic). 8) Talinux. 9) NetUP UserTrafManager. 10) MRTG. 11) NetTop.

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

Morpheus (Gnutella), WinMX, Napster, KaZaA (Fasttrack), eDonkey [Prop], eMule, TheCircle, Bittorrent, SoulSeek, Direct Connect

1) Mldonkey. (eDonkey, Soulseek, Fasttrack, Gnutella, Open Napster, Direct Connect, BitTorrent)
2) LimeWire. (Gnutella)
3) Lopster. (OpenNAP)
4) Gnapster. (OpenNAP)
5) eDonkey. (eDonkey) [Prop]
6) cDonkey. (eDonkey)
7) Gift client / server / fasttrack plugin (Fasttrack)
8) ed2k_gui.
9) Gtk-Gnutella. (Gnutella)
10) Qtella. (Gnutella)
11) Mutella. (Gnutella, console)
12) TheCircle.
13) Freenet. (fully anonymous p2p)
14) GNUnet.
15) Lmule. (eDonkey)
16) Xmule. (eDonkey)
17) Bittorrent.
18) PySoulSeek (Soulseek).
19) Loophole. (WinMX) [Prop]
20) Direct Connect.
21) QuickDC. (Direct Connect).
22) OverNet.
23) Apollon.
24) GrapeWine. (fully anonymous p2p)
25) Snark. (Bittorrent)
26) Sancho (mldonkey frontend)
27) ktorrent
28) azureus

"Hotline" p2p protocol clients / servers | ??? | Clients: 1) Gtkhx. 2) Fidelio. 3) GHX. [Prop] Servers: 1) Synapse. 2) HSX.
Program for working with sound modem with many functions - from answerback and AON to fax device | Venta Fax, PrimaFax | 1) Gfax. (???) 2) PrimaFax. [Prop, 99$] 3) mgetty + voice + sendfax. 4) vgetty.
Work with faxes | WinFax | 1) HylaFax. 2) Fax2Send. [Prop] 3) Efax. 4) VSI-FAX. [Prop]
Dialup | Vdialer, etc | 1) Kppp. 2) X-isp. 3) wvdial. (Front ends: X-wvdial, kvdial, gtkdial). 4) Gppp. 5) Kinternet. 6) Rp3. 7) pppconfig + pon + poff. 8) Modem Lights. 9) Netcount. (console)
FTN editor | Golded | 1) Golded. 2) Golded+. 3) Msged. 4) Qded.
FTN tosser | FastEcho, hpt | 1) hpt. 2) CrashEcho. 3) Qecho. 4) CrashMail II. 5) Fidogate - gate to news. 6) ifmail - gate to news.
FTN mailer | SF-Mail, T-Mail | 1) ifcico. 2) qico. 3) Bforce. 4) Binkd.

Remote management

1) VNC, Virtual Network Computing
2) Remote Administrator (Radmin) [Prop]
3) Remote Assistance [Prop]
4) Symantec pcAnywhere [Prop]
5) Windows Terminal Server [Prop]
6) Rdesktop [Prop]
7) Radmin [Prop]
8) PC-Duo [Prop]
9) Huey PC Remote Control (only for NT) [Prop]
10) Timbuktu Pro [Prop]
11) LapLink [Prop]
12) GoToMyPC [Prop]
13) Bo2k and other trojans

1) VNC, Virtual Network Computing.
2) ssh.
3) Remote management is built-in in XFree86.
4) Remote management is built-in in KDE 3.1. ("desktop sharing").
5) Rdesktop Client.
6) rsh / rlogin.
7) telnet.
8) Gtelnet.
9) x0rfbserver.
10) KDE Universal Remote Desktop.

Transmission of the files on modem | HyperTerminal, Terminate, etc | 1) Minicom + lrzcz + Kermit. 2) Msterm. 3) Xtel. 4) uucp. 5) lrzsz + cu from uucp.
Work with ssh | Putty, Irlex, cygwin + ssh | 1) Kssh. 2) ssh / openssh. 3) GTelnet. (Telnet, SSH, Rlogin)
Network monitoring tool | Dumeter, Netmedic | 1) Gkrellm. 2) Big Brother. 3) Etherape. 4) Nagios. 5) Tkined. 6) MRTG. 7) Rrdtool. 8) PIKT. 9) Autostatus. 10) bcnu. 11) mon. 12) Sysmon. 13) Spong. 14) SNIPS. 15) iptraf (console). 16) Ksysguard. 17) OpenNMS. 18) tcpdump.
Network maintance tool | HP OpenView, MS SMS, Tivoli | 1) HP OpenView agents. [Prop] 2) Big Brother. 3) Cheops. 4) Tkined. 5) OpenNMS.
Protocols analysing, sniffing | Sniffer Pro, EtherPeek (TokenPeek, AiroPeek), Windump, Ethereal, MS Network Monitor, Iris, Lan Explorer, NetSniffer, Snort, ... | 1) Ethereal. 2) Tcpdump. 3) Etherape. 4) Ntop. 5) ipxdump. (+ipxparse for parsing) 6) Snort.
Security scanner | ShadowScan, ISS, Retina, Internet Scanner | 1) Nessus. 2) Nmap.
Routing | MS RRAS | 1) iproute2 + iptables. 2) GateD. [Prop] 3) GNU Zebra.
Utilites and libraries for Ethernet/IP testing | lcrzo | lcrzo
IP-telephony (VoIP) | Buddyphone [Prop], Cisco SoftPhone, Skype | 1) GNU Bayonne. 2) Openh323. 3) OpenPhone. 4) tkPhone. 5) NauPhone. 6) Twinkle 7) Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) 8) Gizmo [NF?] (win+mac version also) 9) Kphone 11) Linphone 12) Skype [NF]
Sharing data/files | Windows shares | 1) NFS. 2) Samba. 3) Samba-TNG. 4) FTP.
??? | Windows Domain, Active Directory | 1) Samba. 2) Ldap. 3) yp.
Viewing Windows-network | Network neighborhood | 1) Samba. 2) KDE Lan Browser, lisa 3) LinNeighborhood. 4) xSMBrowser. 5) Komba2. 6) Konqueror.
ADSL | 1) RASPPPOE | 1) rp-pppoe. 2) Pptp client.
Distributed computing | All projects. 1) United Devices. 2) Seti @ Home. 3) Folding @ Home. 4) Genome @ Home. | All projects. 1) Distributed.net. 2) Seti @ Home. 3) Folding @ Home. 4) Genome @ Home. 5) D2ol. * Some versions for Linux run only in console mode.
IPSEC protocol | - | FreeSWAN.
VRML viewer and editor | ??? | 1) White Dune.
Work with Ebay | ??? | 1) Bidwatcher.
2) Work with files.
File manager in FAR and NC style | FAR, Norton Commander, Disco Commander, Volcov Commander, etc | 1) Midnight Commander. 2) X Northern Captain. 3) Deco (Demos Commander). 4) Portos Commander. 5) Konqueror in MC style. 6) Gentoo. 7) VFU. 8) Ytree.
File manager in Windows Commander style | Total Commander (former Windows Commander) | 1) Krusader. 2) Kcommander. 3) FileRunner (TCL/TK). 4) Linux Commander. 5) LinCommander. 6) Rox, Rox-Filer. 7) Emelfm. 8) Midnight Commander. 9) Worker.
File manager in Windows style | Windows Explorer / Internet Explorer | 1) Konqueror. 2) Gnome-Commander. 3) Nautilus. 4) Endeavour Mark II. 5) XWC.
Visual Shell | ??? | 1) vshnu: the New Visual Shell.
Quick viewing of local HTML documents | 1) Internet Explorer 2) Microsoft Document Explorer | 1) Dillo. (Russian language patches - here). 2) Konqueror. 3) Nautilus. 4) Lynx / Links.
Viewing all operations with files | Filemon | Filemon.
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.
Work with compressed files | 1) WinZip 2) WinRar 3) 7-Zip 4) WinACE 5) UltimateZip | 1) Ark (kdeutils). 2) Gnozip. 3) KArchiveur. 4) Gnochive. 5) FileRoller. 6) Unace. 7) LinZip. 8) TkZip.
Console archivers | arj, rar, zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, lha... | 1) tar, gzip, bzip2. 2) Unarc. 3) Lha. (on Japanese) 4) Infozip. 5) Arj. 6) Avfs. (The support of any archive from any program - file.zip#/...). 7) Zoo. 8) RAR. 9) CAB Extract 10) 7-zip .
Program for files and directories comparison | 1) Beyond Compare. 2) Araxis Merge. 3) WinMerge 4) Minimalist GNU For Windows (diff.exe) 5) Unison 6) kdiff3 | 1) Mgdiff. 2) diff, patch. 3) Xemacs. 4) Xdelta. (make patches for binary files) 5) Meld. 6) Xxdiff. 7) Unison 8) kdiff3 9) kompare .
Batch file renaming | Plugins to TotalCommander, ... | 1) GPRename. (Perl-based) 2) Plugins for MC (???)
3) Desktop / System software.
Text editor | Notepad, WordPad, TextPad, Vim, Xemacs, ... | 1) Kedit (KDE). 2) Gedit (Gnome). 3) Gnotepad. 4) Kate (KDE). 5) KWrite (KDE). 6) Nedit. 7) Vim. 8) Xemacs. 9) Xcoral. 10) Nvi. 11) Ozeditor.
Console text editor | 1) Vim 2) Emacs 3) Editor from FAR, editor from DN, ... | 1) Vim. 2) Emacs. 3) Nano. (It's a free implementation of pico) 4) joe. 5) Fte. 6) Jed. 7) CoolEdit.
Multi-purpose text and source code editor | SciTE, UltraEdit, MultiEdit, Vim, Xemacs, ... | 1) Kate (KDE). 2) Nedit. 3) CodeCommander. 4) SciTE. 5) Quanta Plus. 6) Vim. 7) Xemacs. 8) Mcedit (comes with mc). 9) Jed. 10) Setedit. (Turbo Vision looking style) 11) HT editor.
Text editor with cyrillic encodings support | Bred, Rpad32, Aditor, Vim, Xemacs | 1) Kate (KDE). 2) Nedit. 3) Fte (console). 4) Patched version of Midnight Commander. 5) Vim. 6) Xemacs.
Viewing PostScript | 1) RoPS 2) GhostView | 1) GhostView. 2) Kghostview. 3) GV. 4) GGV.
Viewing PDF | 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller 2) GhostView | 1) Adobe Reader. [Prop] 2) Xpdf. 3) GV. 4) GGV. 5) GhostView. 6) Kghostview. 7) Kpdf
Creating PDF | 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller 2) GhostView 3) Ghostscript 4) Openoffice.org | 1) Any Linux WYSIWYG program -> print to file -> ps2pdf. (Here's an article about this). 2) Adobe Acrobat Distiller. [Prop] 3) PStill. [Shareware] 4) PDFLatex. 5) Xfig. 6) Ghostscript. 7) Tex2Pdf. 8) Reportlab. 9) GV. 10) GGV. 11) GhostView. 12) Kghostview. 13) Panda PDF Generator. 14) Openoffice.org.
Crypto | PGP, GnuPG + Windows Privacy Tools | 1) GnuPG (console) + GPA, KGpg, and other frontends. 2) PGP. [Prop]
Disc volume encryption | EFS (standard), PGP-Disk, BestCrypt, Private Disk Light | 1) Loop-aes. 2) CFS. 3) TCFS. 4) BestCrypt. 5) CryptFS.
Task scheduler | mstask, nnCron | cron, at (standard, console). GUI: Kcron.
Outlook scheduler | Outlook scheduler | 1) KOrganizer.
Virtual CD | VirtualDrive, VirtualCD, Daemon Tools, ... | 1) Virtual CD Kernel Modul. 2) "cp /dev/cdrom mycd.iso" + "mount -o loop mycd.iso /mnt/cdrom/".
Text recognition (OCR) | Recognita, FineReader | 1) ClaraOcr. 2) Gocr. 3) Kooka. 4) OCRopus.
Translators (cyrillic) | Promt, Socrat | Ksocrat (???)
Eng-rus dictionaries (cyrillic) | 1) ABBYY Lingvo 2) Socrat 3) JaLingvo 4) phpMyLingvo | 1) Mueller. 2) Ksocrat. 3) JaLingvo. 4) phpMyLingvo. 5) dict+Kdict. 6) DictX. 7) Groan. 8) Mova. 9) Slowo. 10) Stardict.
Work with scanner | Programs on CD with scanner, VueScan | 1) Xsane. 2) Kooka. 3) Xvscan. [Prop] 4) VueScan. [Prop]
Antivirus | AVG AntiVirus, NAV, Dr. Web, TrendMicro, F-Prot, Kaspersky, ... | 1) Dr. Web. [Prop] 2) Trend ServerProtect. [Prop] 3) RAV Antivirus. [Prop] (Bought by Microsoft?) 4) OpenAntivirus + AMaViS / VirusHammer. 5) F-Prot. [Prop] 6) Sophie / Trophie. 7) Clam Antivirus. 8) Kaspersky. [Prop] 9) YAVR.
System configuration | Control Panel, Msconfig, RegEdit, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, Config NT, ... | 1) setup (Red Hat). 2) chkconfig (Red Hat). 3) redhat-config-<feature>. (Red Hat 8.0). 4) xf86config, xf86cfg. 5) Linuxconf. 6) Drakeconf. 7) Webmin. 8) yast and yast2 (SuSE). 9) sysinstall (FreeBSD). 10) /dev/hands :).
Boot managers | System Commander, PowerQuest Boot Magic, GAG, ... | 1) Grub. 2) Lilo. 3) ASPLoader. 4) Acronis OS Selector [Prop]. 5) Ranish Partition Manager. 6) osbs. 7) Symon. 8) Smart Boot Manager. 9) Xosl. 10) GAG.
Hard disk partitions manager | 1) PowerQuest Partition Magic [Prop] 2) Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop] 3) Paragon Partition Manager [Prop] 4) Partition Commander [Prop] | 1) PartGUI. (GUI for partimage and parted) 2) GNU Parted. (GUI - QTParted). 3) Partition Image. 4) fips. 5) Diskdrake (Mandrake). 6) Paragon Partition Manager [Prop]. 7) Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop]. (review)
LVM + soft-RAID + parted + ... | - | EVMS.
Backup software | ntbackup (standard), Legato Networker [Prop] | 1) Legato Networker. [Prop] 2) Lonetar. [Prop] 3) Disk Archive. 4) Bacula. 5) Taper. 6) dump / restore. (console, standard) 7) Amanda (console). 8) Mondo Rescue. (backups that boot and auto restore themselves to disk)
Making images of disk partitions | 1) DriveImage 2) Ghostpe | 1) PartitionImage (GUI - PartGUI). 2) dd (console, standard). 3) Mondo Rescue.
Machine mirroring over network | 1) ImageCast 2) Norton Ghost | 1) UDP Cast. 2) Techteam's UDP Cast Disks. 3) Ghost for Unix (g4u).
Task manager | TaskMan (standard), TaskInfo, ProcessExplorer NT. | 1) top (console, standard). 2) Gtop, Ktop. 3) Ksysguard. 4) "ps aux|more", "kill <pid>"
Automatic switch between English and Russian when you type | Punto Switcher, Keyboard Ninja, Snoop | XNeur
Mouse gestures | Sensiva | 1) Kgesture. 2) wayV. 3) Optimoz.
TV program | ??? | Home Portal.
Text to speech | MS text to speech | 1) KDE Voice Plugins. 2) Festival. 3) Emacspeak. 4) VoiceText.
Speech recognition | ViaVoice, DragonNaturally Speaking | Yes, there are no usable speech recognition packages. But: 1) Sphinx. 2) ViaVoice. (almost dead...)
Stream text processing | 1) Minimalist GNU For Windows (sed.exe) 2) perl | 1) sed, awk. 2) perl.
PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view | TreePad [Prop], Leo, CueCards | 1) TreePad Lite. [Prop] 2) Yank. 3) TreeLine. 4) Gjots. 5) Leo. 6) Hnb - hierarchical notebook. 7) TuxCards.
Program for quick switching between resolutions and frequencies | Integrated with system, comes on CD with video card | 1) Multires. 2) Ctrl+Alt+"-", Ctrl+Alt+"+". 3) Fbset. (when using framebuffer)
Search and replace text in files | 1) Integrated with system 2) Indexing service 3) HTMLChanger 4) Any file manager | 1) find (console, standard). 2) slocate (console, standard). GUI: 1) Gsearchtool. 2) Kfind. 3) Any file manager
Local search engine with SGBD for indexing | 1) Indexing service (???) 2) mnoGoSearch. [prop for Windows] | 1) mnoGoSearch. 2) ASPSeek.
System monitoring | System monitor (built-in) | 1) top (console, standard). 2) Gkrellm. 3) Ksysguard. 4) Survivor. 5) "Hot-babe". (If you can be shocked by nudity, don't use it :). 6) htop
Program for logs viewing | Event Viewer (built-in) | 1) Xlogmaster. 2) Analog. 3) Fwlogview. (firewall)
Data Recovery Tools | R-Studio (supports Linux partitions) | 1) e2undel. 2) myrescue. 3) TestDisk. 4) unrm. 5) Channel 16.
Text files encoder with automatic detection of character set | ??? | 1) Enca. 2) Jconv. 3) Xcode. (cyrillic) 4) Asrecod. (cyrillic)
Alarm clock | MindIt! | 1) KAlarm.
Work with Palm | Palm Desktop | 1) Kpilot. 2) Jpilot.
Allows to carry on Palm .html files | iSilo | 1) iSilo. 2) Plucker.
Low-level optimization (chipset, pci-bus) | Powertweak | 1) Powertweak-Linux.
Bible | On-Line Bible, The SWORD | 1) BibleTime (KDE) 2) Gnomesword (Gnome)
Convenient mouse scrolling | Mouse Imp | ???
Automatic change of desktop background | ??? | 1) Background Buddy.
Convenient switching of the keyboard language | ??? | 1) GSwitchIt.
Windows registry editor | RegEdit | Kregedit :).
4.1) Multimedia (audio / CD).
Useful links: | - | Linux MIDI & Sound Applications - many links and resources. Sound Software - lots of it.

Music / mp3 / ogg players

1) Winamp
2) Zinf
3) SnackAmp
4) Soritong
5) Apollo
6) K-jofol 2000
7) Sonique
8) C-4
9) Media Box Audio / Video Workstation 5
10) Blaze Media Pro
11) NEX 3
12) Real Jukebox
13) Windows Media Player

1) XMMS (X multimedia system).
2) Noatun.
3) Zinf. (former Freeamp)
4) Winamp.
5) Xamp.
6) GQmpeg.
7) SnackAmp.
8) Mplayer. (Frontend: Kplayer).
9) Xine. (Frontends: Sinek, Totem)
10) Amarok

Console music / mp3 / ogg players | mpg123, dosamp, Mplayer | 1) Cplayer. 2) mpg123. 3) ogg123. 4) mpg321. 5) Orpheus. 6) Mp3blaster. 7) Madplay. 8) Console utils for xmms. 9) Mplayer.
Programs for CD/DVD burning with GUI | Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator, ... | 1) K3b. 2) XCDRoast. 3) KOnCd. 4) Eclipt Roaster. 5) Gnome Toaster. 6) CD Bake Oven. 7) KreateCD. 8) SimpleCDR-X. 9) GCombust. 10) WebCDWriter. (CD burn server, usable from any remote browser with Java support) 11) CDR Toaster. 12) Arson. 13) CD-Me (Creation of audio-CD). 14) Nero [Prop]
CD player | CD player, Winamp, Windows Media Player, ... | 1) KsCD. 2) Gtcd (Gnome) + tcd (console). 3) Orpheus. (console) 4) Sadp. 5) WorkMan. 6) Xmcd. 7) Grip. 8) XPlayCD. 9) ccd / cccd. (console) 10) cdp. (console) 11) BeboCD.
Slowing the rotation of CD | Slowcd, Cdslow | 1) mount -o speed=<speed> 2) hdparm -E <speed> 3) eject -x <speed> 4) cdspeed.

CD ripping / grabbing

1) Cdex
2) MusicMatch
3) Streambox Ripper
4) Audiocatalyst
5) WinDac
6) Audiograbber
7) Media Box Audio / Video Workstation
8) CD-Copy
9) Blaze Media Pro
10) Real Jukebox
11) Windows Media Player
12) Nero
13) VirtualDrive
14) VirtualCD
15) Audacity

1) Grip.
2) Audacity.
3) RipperX.
4) tkcOggRipper.
5) A Better CD Encoder.
6) cdda2wav.
7) Gnome Toaster.
8) Cdparanoia.
9) Cd2mp3.
10) Dagrab.
11) SimpleCDR-X.
12) RatRip.
13) AutoRip.
14) Sound Juicer.

Tracker music player | Winamp, Windows Media Player, ... | 1) xmms + MikMod-plugin. Comes with xmms. 2) xmms + xmp-plugin. Using xmp. 3) MikMod. (console) 4) xmp. Can play tracker music with Midi devices. 5) TiMidity++. Only mod files.
Midi player | Winamp, Windows Media Player, ... | 1) xmms + midi-plugin. (Using TiMidity) 2) xmms + awemidi-plugin. (Using drvmidi) 3) xmms + playmidi-plugin. (Using playmidi) 4) TiMidity++. Supports gus pathes and sf2 banks, backend to another software. 4) timidity-eawpatches. Gus-patches for TiMidity++. 5) Kmid. 6) drvmidi / awemidi. 7) pmidi (console, for ALSA). 8) playmidi. 9) atmidi.
Midi + karaoke player | VanBasco | 1) Kmid. 2) Gkaraoke. 3) TiMidity++.
Mp3 encoders | 1) Lame 2) Cdex 3) MusicMatch 4) Streambox Ripper 5) Audiocatalyst 6) Blaze Media Pro 7) Media Box Audio / Video Workstation 8) AudioSlimmer 9) Real Jukebox | 1) Lame. 2) Bladeenc. 3) NotLame. 4) L3enc. [Prop] 5) gogo.
OGG encoders | oggenc | oggenc.
Work with Real protocol | 1) RealPlayer. [Prop] 2) Mplayer + libraries. | 1) RealPlayer. [Prop] 2) Mplayer + libraries. 3) ReMedial.
Radio | VC Radio, FMRadio, Digband Radio | 1) xradio. 2) cRadio. 3) Xmradio. 4) RDJ. 5) RadioActive. 6) XMMS-FMRadio. 7) Gqradio. 8) Qtradio. 9) streamtuner
Audio editors | SoundForge, Cooledit, Audacity, ... | 1) Glame. 2) Rezound. 3) Sweep. 4) WaveForge. 5) Sox. 6) Audacity. 7) GNUSound. 8) Ecasound. 9) SoundStudio. 10) mhWaveEdit.
Multitrack audio processor | Cubase | 1) Ecasound. 2) Ardour.
Sound tracker | Fasttracker, ImpulseTracker | 1) Soundtracker. 2) Insotracker. 3) CheeseTracker.
Sound mixer | sndvol32 | 1) Opmixer. 2) aumix. 3) mix2000. 4) KMix. 5) Alsamixer. 6) GMix. 7) wmix (for WindowMaker) 8) Mixer_app (for WindowMaker) 9) Many applets for AfterStep / WindowMaker / FluxBox.
Software for music notation | Finale, Sibelius, SmartScore | 1) LilyPond. 2) Noteedit. 3) MuX2d.
Midi-sequencer | Cakewalk | 1) RoseGarden. 2) Brahms. 3) Anthem. 4) Melys. 5) MuSE. 6) MidiMountain. (KDE) More infrormation: Midi-Howto.
Music creation | Cakewalk, FruityLoops | 1) RoseGarden. 2) Ardour.
Synthesizer | Virtual waves, Csound | 1) Csound. 2) FluidSynth. 3) Arts Builder (???).
ID3-Tag Editors | Mp3tag | 1) EasyTAG. 2) Cantus. 3) id3tool (console). 4) id3ed (console). 5) id3edit (console).
Guitar/Instrument Tuning software | 1) In-Tune Multi-Instrument Tuner 2) Digital Guitar Tuner | ???
Record streaming audio into .MP3 files | Twins Stream Ripper | Stream Ripper.
4.2) Multimedia (graphics).

Graphic files viewer

1) ACDSee
2) IrfanView
3) Xnview
4) CompuPic [Prop]
5) Windows Fax and Image viewer
5) Any web browser

1) Xnview.
2) GQview.
3) Qiv.
4) CompuPic [Prop]
5) Kuickshow.
6) Kview.
7) GTKSee.
8) xv. [Prop]
9) pornview.
10) imgv.
11) Gwenview.
12) Gliv.
13) Showimg.
14) Fbi.
15) Gthumb.
16) PixiePlus.
17) Electric Eyes (Gnome).
18) Eye of Gnome.
19) GImageView.
20) Hugues Image Viewer.
21) Any web browser.

Viewing the graphic files in console | QPEG | 1) zgv. 2) aalib.
Simple graphic editor | Paint | 1) Kpaint. 2) Tuxpaint. 3) Xpaint. 4) Gpaint. 5) Killustrator. 6) Graphtool.
Powerful graphic editor in PhotoShop style | 1) Adobe Photoshop [Prop] 2) Gimp 3) Paint Shop Pro [Prop] 4) Pixel32 [Prop] 5) Corel PhotoPaint [Prop] 6) Macromedia Fireworks | 1) Gimp. 2) ImageMagick. 3) Pixel32. [Prop] 4) CinePaint. 5) RubyMagick. 6) Corel PhotoPaint 9. [Prop]
Programs for work with vector graphics | Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, AutoSketch, OpenOffice Draw | 1) Inkscape 2) sK1 3) Sodipodi. 4) xfig. 5) Sketch. 6) Karbon14 and Kontour. 7) OpenOffice Draw. 8) Dia. 9) Tgif. 10) Gestalter. 11) ImPress. 12) Tkpaint. 13) Tgif. 14) Corel Draw 9. [Prop]
SVG editor | WebDraw [Prop] | 1) Inkscape 2) sK1 3) Sodipodi. 4) Dia. 5) Sketch.
SVG viewer | 1) Squiggle 2) X-Smiles 3) SVG support in Mozilla | 1) Squiggle. 2) X-Smiles. 3) SVG support in Mozilla. 4) SVG support in Konqueror.
Program for text decoration | Wordart, OpenOffice Draw | OpenOffice Draw.
Program for ASCII-drawing | ANSI DRAW, Mazaika | 1) CanvASCII. 2) Jave. 3) ANSI Draw. 4) EDASCII.
Converting the graphic files in pseudographics | ??? | aalib.
Flash playing | Flash Player | 1) SWF Macromedia Flash Player. 2) Flash Player. [Prop] 3) Plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (download here or here).
Flash creation | Macromedia Flash | 1) DrawSWF. 2) Ming. (Creating flash swf output from programming languages)
3D-graphics | 3D Studio MAX, Maya [Prop], Povray, ... | 1) Blender. 2) Maya. [Prop] 3) KPovModeler. 4) K3Studio. 5) Moonlight. 6) GIG3DGO. 7) Povray. 8) MegaPov. 9) K3D. 10) Wings 3D. 11) Softimage XSI. [Prop] 12) Kludge3d.
The instrument for making the photographic quality scene based of ArchiCAD 3D-models | ArtLantis Render | ???
Icon editor | Microangelo | 1) Gnome-iconedit. 2) Kiconedit.
Small program for making screenshots | Integrated with system (PrintScreen), Snag it, ... | 1) Ksnapshot. 2) Xwpick. 3) Xwd, xgrabsc. 4) Motv (xawtv) 5) Streamer (video) 6) Integrated with window manager (various hotkeys)
Drawing structure diagrams of the database | Access | 1) Dia. 2) Toolkit for Conceptual Modelling.
Create printed calendars, greeting cards, etc., with clip art collection | Broderbund Print Shop | ???
Download pictures from digital camera | Polaroid Drivers | 1) Camera Tool (gtkam) 2) Gphoto2.
4.3) Multimedia (video and other)

Video / mpeg4 players

1) BSplayer
2) Zoomplayer
3) Windows Media Player
4) VideoLAN
5) Winamp3
6) Mplayer
7) RealPlayer
8) Xing
9) Simplayer

1) Mplayer. (Frontend: Kplayer).
(LiveCD distribution of Mplayer - MoviX).
2) Xine. (Frontends: Sinek, Totem)
3) VideoLAN.
4) Aviplay.
5) Winamp3.
6) Noatun.
7) KDE Media Player.
8) XMovie.
9) Kaboodle.
10) MpegTV.
11) Avifile.
12) Xmps.
13) Ogg Tarkin. (???)
14) Theora. (???)

Console video / mpeg4 players | QuickView | 1) Mplayer. 2) QuickView.
DVD players | PowerDVD, WinDVD, MicroDVD, Windows Media Player, VideoLAN | 1) Ogle. 2) Mplayer. 3) Xine. 4) Aviplay. 5) VideoLAN. 6) OMS.
DVD rippers / encoders | Gordian Knot, Mencoder (from Mplayer) | 1) Drip. 2) Transcode. 3) Mencoder. (from Mplayer) 4) Ffmpeg. 5) DVD::Rip.
Simple video creation and editing | Windows Movie Maker | 1) iMira Editing. [Prop] 2) MainActor. [Prop] 3) Broadcast 2000. 4) Avidemux.
Professional video production enviroment | Adobe Premiere, Media Studio Pro | 1) iMira Editing. 2) Cinelerra. 3) MainActor. 4) Broadcast 2000. 5) Lives. 6) CinePaint. 7) Heroine Virtual.
Cutting video | Virtual Dub | 1) Avidemux. 2) Kino.
Converting video | Virtual Dub, Mencoder (from Mplayer) | 1) Transcode. 2) Mencoder. (from Mplayer) 3) Ffmpeg.
Work with TV-tuner / watch TV | AVerTV, PowerVCR 3.0, CinePlayer DVR, Mplayer, ... | 1) Tvtime. 2) Kwintv. 3) Xawtv. 4) Zapping. 5) GnomeTV. 6) Mplayer. 7) Xawdecode.
Work with TV-tuner in console | - | 1) Mplayer. 2) fbtv. 3) aatv.
Work with QuickTime format | QuickTime Player | 1) QuickTime. 2) Mplayer + Sorenson codec. 3) OpenQuicktime. 4) Xanim.
Creation of 2D and 3D effects | Adobe After Effects | 1) Shake. [Proprietary, $129.95] 2) Plugins for Gimp.
Animation | Animation Shop, ... | 1) CinePaint. 2) Plugins for Gimp.
Landscape / terrain generation | Bryce | Terraform.
World construction | World Construction Set, Animatek World Builder | ???
Framework for developing video applications | ??? | 1) Gstreamer. 2) Live.
5) Office/business.
Office suite | MS Office, StarOffice / OpenOffice, 602Software | 1) OpenOffice. 2) StarOffice. [Prop] 3) Koffice. 4) HancomOffice. [Prop] 5) Gnome Office. 6) Applixware Office. [Prop] 7) Siag Office. 8) TeX, LaTeX, ...
Office suite | WordPerfect Office 2000 | WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux. (No longer available at Corel website. It was Windows version, running under Wine :).
Word processor | Word, StarOffice / OpenOffice Writer, 602Text, Abiword | 1) Abiword. 2) TextMaker [Prop] 3) WordPerfect. 4) Ted. 5) StarOffice / OpenOffice Writer. 6) Kword. 7) LyX. 8) Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment).
Spreadsheets | Excel, StarOffice / OpenOffice Calc, 602Tab | 1) Gnumeric. 2) Abacus. 3) StarOffice / OpenOffice Calc. 4) Kspread.
Graphing / charting data | Excel, MicroCall Origin, ... | 1) Kivio. 2) Dia. 3) KChart. 4) xfig. 5) Gnuplot. 6) GtkGraph. 7) GNU Plotutils. 8) Ploticus.
Creating presentations | MS PowerPoint, StarOffice Presentation, OpenOffice Impress | 1) StarOffice Presentation. 2) OpenOffice Impress. 3) Kpresenter. 4) MagicPoint. 5) Kuickshow & gimp :).
Local database | MS Access, InterBase6, OpenOffice + MySQL. | 1) KNoda. 2) Gnome DB Manager. 3) OpenOffice + MySQL. 4) InterBase7. [Prop] 5) InterBase6. 6) Berkley DB. 7) Rekall. [Prop] 8) StarOffice Adabase.
Receiving the quotings, news, building graphs and analysing of the financial market. | Omega Research Trade Station 2000 | 1) The Market Analysis System (MAS)
Software for e-commerce and web business | 1) Weblogic [Prop] 2) IBM WebSphere Application Server [Prop] 3) iPlanet 4) osCommerce 5) JOnAS 6) COCOON | 1) Weblogic. [Prop] 2) JBoss. 3) IBM WebSphere Application Server. [Prop] 4) osCommerce. 5) JOnAS. 6) COCOON.
Personal finances manager | 1) MS Money 2) Quicken 3) Moneydance [Prop] | 1) GNUcash. 2) GnoFin. 3) Kmymoney. 4) Grisbi. 5) Moneydance. [Prop]
Project management | MS Project, Project Expert 7 | 1) Mr Project. 2) Outreach.
Financial accounting package (global) | ??? | 1) Hansa Business Solutions. [Prop] 2) Quickbooks.
Financial accounting package (russian) | "1C: Accounting" | 1) Hansa Business Solutions. [Prop] 2) IceB. 3) "Finances without problems". 4) Ananas. 5) E/AS. 6) 1L: Project.
Financial accounting package (India & Asia) | ??? | Kalculate. [Prop]
Automation of the enterprise (russian) | "1C: Enterprise" | 1) Keeper. [Prop] 2) Oblik. [Prop] 3) IceB. 4) Compiere.
ERP/CRM (english) | ??? | 1) Compiere. 2) Dolibarr. 3) Tutos.
ERP/CRM (russian) | "BOSS-Corporation" | 1) NauRP. 2) Compiere. 3) Dolibarr.
Corporate docflow system (russian). | 1) "Boss-Referent" 2) Documentum 3) "Delo" 4) Lanit:LanDoc | 1) NauDoc. 2) Documentum. 3) "Boss-Referent" (without the client part)
6) Games.
Where to get | Anywhere you want :). | The Linux Game Tome (happypenguin.org) | LinuxGames.com | Kde Games | Linux Game Publishing
The Linux Game List | - | http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php
Games for Windows, that can be run under WineX | - | This is a search form, and this is a full list of games (very big).
- | Tetris | 1) LTris. 2) XWelltris. 3) Emacs + "Meta-X tetris". 4) Ksirtet.
- | Standard Windows games | 1) Kdegames. 2) Gnome-games.
- | Mines | 1) KMines. 2) Perlmines. 3) Dmines.
- | Civilization | FreeCiv.
- | Civilization: Call to Power | Civilization: Call to Power.
- | Sid Meyer Alpha Centauri | Sid Meyer Alpha Centauri.
- | Sim City 3000 | Sim City 3000.
- | Command&Conquer | FreeCNC.
- | Warcraft 2, Starcraft (?) | FreeCraft.
- | (Win)Digger | 1) Digger. 2) XDigger.
- | Arkanoid, Zball, ... | Lbreakout2.
Quake 1, 2, 3 | 1) Quake 1, 2, 3. 2) QuakeForge. 3) DarkPlaces. | 1) Quake 1, 2, 3. 2) QuakeForge. 3) DarkPlaces.
- | CounterStrike | CounterStrike under WineX.
- | Urban Terror | Urban Terror.
DOOM | 1) jDoom / Doomsday. 2) Zdoom. 3) DOOM Legacy. 4) LxDOOM. 5) PrBoom. 6) EDGE. 7) Vavoom. 8) Original Doom. | 1) jDoom / Doomsday. 2) Zdoom. 3) DOOM Legacy. 4) LxDOOM. 5) PrBoom. 6) EDGE. 7) Vavoom. 8) Original Linux Doom (X11/svgalib).
Heretic | 1) DOOM Legacy. 2) jHeretic / Doomsday. 3) Vavoom. 4) Original Heretic. | 1) DOOM Legacy. 2) Vavoom. 3) Heretic, GL Heretic.
Hexen | 1) jHexen / Doomsday. 2) Vavoom. 3) Original Hexen. | 1) Hexen/SDL. 2) Vavoom.
- | Heretic 2 | Heretic 2.
- | Return to Castle Wolfenstein | Return to Castle Wolfenstein. [Prop]
- | Descent | Descent.
- | Never Winter Nights | Never Winter Nights.
- | Unreal Tournament / Unreal Tournament 2003 | Unreal Tournament / Unreal Tournament 2003.
- | Soldier Of Fortune | Soldier Of Fortune.
- | Tribes 2 | Tribes 2.
- | Blood 1 | Qblood.
- | Worms | Nil.
- | Lines | 1) GtkBalls. 2) gLines.
- | MS Flight Simulator | FlightGear.
- | Lemmings | Pingus.
Racing | Need For Speed | 1) Tux Racer :). 2) KartlingRace.
Chess | ChessMaster, ... | 1) Glchess. 2) Xboard. 3) Eboard.
7) Programming and development.
IDE | 1) Microsoft VisualStudio .net 2) Emacs, XEmacs 3) Vim + ctags + scripts from vim.sf.net 4) Boa Constructor 5) PythonCard | 1) CodeForge. 2) Kdevelop + Qt3 Designer. 3) Eclipse. 4) Glade + Motor or + Xwpe or + any text editor. 5) Emacs, XEmacs. 6) Vim + ctags + scripts from vim.sf.net. 7) Boa Constructor. 8) PythonCard.

Visual C++ IDE

Borland C++ Builder, MS Visual C

1) Anjuta + Glade + Devhelp.
2) KDE Studio Gold. [Prop]
3) Dev-C++.
4) Kylix. [Prop] (Kylix Personal Edition is free).
5) vtkBuilder.
6) foxBuilder.
7) wxDesigner.
8) Arriba. [Prop]
9) Code Crusader. [Prop]
10) CodeWarrior. [Prop]
11) Gbuilder.
12) Source Navigator.
13) TimeStorm. [Prop]
14) Understand for C++. [Prop]
15) SlickEdit. [Prop]
16) Vide.

C++ IDE | Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS, , Minimalist GNU For Windows (mingw32-gcc.exe) | 1) GCC (+ Motor or + Xwpe). 2) LinEdit. 3) Rhide. 4) Wxstudio. 5) Eclipse.
Object Pascal IDE | Delphi | 1) Kylix. [Prop] (Kylix Personal Edition is free). 2) Lazarus + FPC.
Pascal | Pascal, BP | 1) Freepascal. 2) GNU Pascal (gpc). 3) RShell (in style of Borland Pascal 7.0)
Basic | Basic | 1) Hbasic. 2) X-basic. 3) Yabasic. 4) SmallBASIC.
Prolog | VisualProlog, Mercury, SICStus Prolog [Prop] | 1) GNU Prolog. 2) Mercury. 3) SWI-Prolog. 4) SICStus Prolog. [Prop] 5) CIAO Prolog.
Assembler | TASM, MASM, NASM | 1) NASM. (Intel syntax) 2) FLAT Assembler. 3) gas. (AT&T syntax, part of binutils).
Disassembler, Reverse engineering | SoftIce | The source code is open :) 1) ldasm.
Debugger | 1) WinDbg 2) Minimalist GNU For Windows (gdb.exe) | gdb. Frontends: 1) ddd. 2) xxgdb, mxgdb. 3) CGDB. 4) Vim scripts. 5) [X]Emacs C-mode. 6) KMD. 7) NANA. (Library)
WYSIWYG html editor | 1) Macromedia Dreamweaver 2) MS Frontpage 3) Netscape / Mozilla Composer 4) Openoffice HTML editor | 1) Netscape / Mozilla Composer. 2) Openoffice HTML editor. 3) Amaya. 4) GINF (Ginf is not Frontpage) 5) IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder. [Prop] 6) JXHTMLEDIT (Java).
Powerful editor for site creating, contains set of samples and can be complemented with every sort and kind of plug-ins | Dreamweaver Ultradev | ???
HTML / DHTML editor | HomeSite, Coffeecup | 1) Quanta Plus. 2) Bluefish. 3) WebMaker. 4) Screem. 5) Toppage. 6) WebDesigner. 7) ScriptEditor. 8) August. 9) Coffeecup / Linux. 10) FCKeditor.
HTML / DHTML editor | Arachnofilia | Arachnofilia. [Prop]
XML Editor | XML Spy [Prop] | 1) XMLMind XML Editor. 2) Vim. 3) Emacs.
Perl/Python/Tcl IDE | ??? | 1) Komodo. [Prop] 2) Perl Dev Kit.
Java IDE | JBuilder, IDEA | Link: Java Tools for Linux. 1) Jbuilder. 2) NetBeans. 3) Eclipse. 4) Sun ONE Studio. [formerly Forte] 5) Vide.
J2EE based application server | ??? | 1) JBoss.
IDE for Oracle Database development | T.O.A.D., SQL Navigator, PL/SQL Developer | Tora.
CASE-facility for UML | ArgoUML, Together ControlCenter [Prop] | 1) Umbrello UML Modeller. 2) Dia+Dia2Code. 3) PoceidonCE (community edition). 4) ArgoUML. 5) Together ControlCenter [Prop]
Top-level CASE system | Rational Rose. | Rational Rose. [Prop]
HEX-editor | Hiew | 1) Biew. 2) KHexEdit. 3) hexedit (console). 4) GHex.
Clipper compiler and preprocessor | CA-Clipper, The Harbour Project | 1) Clip. 2) The Harbour Project. 3) xHarbour.
Platform in dot-net style | M$ .Net | 1) Mono. 2) DotGNU/Portable.NET
Work with CVS | WinCVS, TortoiseCVS, cvs for Windows, BitKeeper [Prop] | 1) cvs (console). 2) Cervisia (KDE). 3) Lincvs. (Front-end for CVS) 4) BitKeeper. [Prop] 5) SubVersion. (enhanced CVS-like platform + WebDAV -> SCM)
IDE for Interbase/Firebird development | IBExpert | 1) IBAccess 2) IBAdmin [prop] 3) IBWebAdmin (apache / php)
Visual Basic | Visual Basic | 1) Phoenix. 2) KBasic. 3) HBasic. 4) Mono.

Graphical libraries

1) WinAPI, MFC, VCL (C, C++)
2) Tk (Tcl, C)
3) Tkinter (over Tk for Python, Perl, etc)
4) wxWindows (C++) (over winapi)
5) wxPython (Python) (over wxWindows)
6) GTK+ (link #2) (C, C++)
7) Qt (C++)
8) FLTK (C++)
9) AWT, Swing (Java)
10) Xaw - part of X-server (C)

If toolkit is oriented on C, usually it's possible to use it from the other languages. There is object bindings for some of them to use them with C++ and other OO-languages. Toolkits, oriented on C++ from the beginning, are impossible to use from C, and quite often - from the other languages.
1) X11/Xext (C) - low level libraries, used by others.
2) Xt - X Toolkit (C) - reference X11 toolkit
3) Xaw - MIT Athena (C) - reference X11 toolkit
4) Xaw3d - MIT Athena 3D (C) - Athena with 3D-view
5) LessTif - opensource analog of Motif 1 (C)
6) OpenMotif (C)
7) Tk (Tcl, C)
8) Tkinter (over Tk for Python, Perl, etc)
9) wxWindows (C++) (over GTK+ - wxGtk or Motif - wxMotif)
10) wxPython (Python) (over wxWindows)
11) Qt (C++)
12) GTK+ (C, C++)
13) PyQt (over Qt for Python)
14) PyGTK (over GTK+ for Python)
15) Gtk::Perl (over GTK+ for Perl)
16) Qt for Perl (over Qt for Perl)
17) GtkAda (over GTK+ for Ada95)
18) FLTK (C++)
19) XView (C)
20) FOX (C++)
21) AWT, Swing (Java)
22) WinAPI and MFC through wine (C)

Source code documentation system | ??? | 1) Doxygen. 2) CWEB.
Memory leak tracing | 1) Numega Bounds Checker 2) Rational Purify | 1) MallocDebug. 2) Valgrind. 3) Kcachegrind. 4) ElectricFence. 5) dmalloc. 6) ccmalloc. 7) LeakTracer. 8) memprof. 9) BoundsChecker. [prop] 10) mprof. 11) Insure. [prop] 12) dbx. (for Sparc) 13) YAMD. 14) Njamd. 15) Mpatrol.
Application development profiling (tests code performance) | ??? | 1) gProf. 2) JUnit. (Java)
Software projecting | 1) Rational Rose 2) Enterprise Architec 3) Visio | ???
Game programming | 1) DirectX 2) libSDL 3) ClanLib | 1) libSDL 2) ClanLib
Everything needed for work with XML Schemas, DTD, XSL/XSLT, SOAP, WSDL (edit, debug, check, etc) | 1) Altova XMLSpy Suite | ???
Source code -> HTML-document with highlighted syntax | ??? | 1) Webcpp.
Bug Tracking System | ??? | 1) Bugzilla.
Object Request Broker (ORB) | 1) ORBIT | 1) ORBIT.
Portability | ??? | 1) Autoconf, Automake & Libtool.
Source code indexer and cross-referencer | ??? | 1) GNU GLOBAL. 2) LXR.
Dynamic tracer of system calls | ??? | 1) Syscalltrack.
XML C parser | 1) libxml (???) | 1) Libxml2.
FoxPro | Visual FoxPro | qwerty
8) Server software.
Web-server | 1) Apache 2) IIS 3) Roxen 4) wn 5) cern-httpd 6) dhttpd 7) caudium 8) aolserver 9) Boa | 1) Apache. 2) Xitami. 3) Thttp. 4) TUX (Red Hat Content Accelerator). 5) PublicFile. 6) Boa. 7) Caudium. 8) Roxen. 9) Zeus. [Prop] 10) Thy.
FTP-server | Internet Information Server, ServU, War FTP, BulletProof FTP server, FileZilla server, ... | 1) pure-ftpd. 2) vsftpd. 3) wu-ftpd. 4) proftpd. 5) gl-ftpd. 6) ftp. 7) PublicFile. 8) Teepeedee.
Language for Web-development | PHP | PHP.
Language for Web-development | Perl | Perl.
Language for Web-development | ASP | ASP module for Apache.
Database engine | MS SQL, MySQL | 1) Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. [Prop] 2) PostgreSQL. The most advanced open source database. 3) MySQL. The most popular open source database. 4) mSQL. 5) SAP DB.
Database engine | IBM DB2 | IBM DB2. [Prop]
Database engine | Oracle | 1) Oracle. [Prop] 2) PostgreSQL. 3) Linter. (cyrillic)
Database engine | Informix [Prop] | Informix. [Prop]
Database engine | Borland Interbase, FireBird | FireBird.
Email server | MDaemon, Hamster | 1) Sendmail. 2) Qmail. 3) Postfix. 4) Exim.

Email / PIM / Groupware server

Microsoft Exchange

1) CommuniGate Pro. [Prop]
2) Bynari's Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop]
3) Samsung Contact. [Prop]
4) Teamware Office. [Prop]
5) Novell Netmail. [Prop]
6) Amphora. (Zope / Qmail).
7) Tutos. (Apache / PHP / Mysql / Sendmail).
8) Kroupware. The project from the KDE PIM developers, which is being financed by the government of Germany.
9) SuSe Linux Openexchange Server. [Prop]
10) PHPGroupware.
11) SCOoffice Mail Server. [Prop] (SCO - m.d. :).
12) LinuXchangE.
13) OpenOffice.org Groupware Project. (New!)
14) Tiki CMS/Groupware. (Apache / PHP / Mysql).

Mail filter / spam killer | cygwin+Exim port | 1) SpamAssassin. 2) Procmail. 3) Mailfilter. 4) �yrus-imap. 5) Exim. 6) POPFile.
Mail downloader | MDaemon | Fetchmail.
??? | Lotus Domino | Lotus Domino. [Prop]
Server / router on one diskette. | Impossible | As much as you want :). 1) muLinux. 2) Dachstein (firewall / dhcp). 3) Serverdisk (http / ftp). 4) Fli4l.
Proxy server | MS Proxy Server, WinGate | 1) Squid. 2) Paco. 3) Privoxy. 4) Wwwoffle. 5) OOPS.
Server for supporting Java Servlets and JSP, can work with Apache | Tomcat | Tomcat.
Advanced server statistics | 1) AWStats | 1) AWStats. (All web-, ftp-, proxy-, mail-, wap- and streaming-servers). 2) ANALOG. (Web-server).
Cluster of servers | ??? | 1) LVS - The Linux Virtual Server.
Cluster filesystems | 1) GFS 2) ADIC | 1) GFS. 2) OpenGFS. 3) Lustre. (not SAN compatible?) 4) Matrix Server. [Prop] 5) CXFS. 6) GPFS. 7) Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS). 8) Coda. 9) Intermezzo. 10) Convolo cluster. 11) ADIC.
Web Mail | ??? | 1) IMP. 2) CAMAS. (for Caudium web-server).
9) Scientific and special programs.
Useful links: | - | Scientific Applications on Linux - many links to both OSS and proprietary applications.
Math system in MathCad style | Mathcad | Gap.
Math system in Matlab style | Matlab | 1) Matlab. [FTP] 2) Octave. (+ Gnuplot) 3) Scilab. 4) R. 5) Yorick. 6) rlab. 7) Yacas. 8) Euler.
Math system in Mathematica style | Mathematica | 1) Mathematica. [Prop] 2) Maxima. 3) MuPad. 4) NumExp. 5) Mathomatic.
Math system in Maple style | Maple | 1) Maple. [Prop] 2) Maxima. 3) MuPad.
Equation / math editor | Mathtype, MS Equation Editor, OpenOffice Math | 1) OpenOffice Math. 2) MathMLed. 3) Kformula (Koffice). 4) LyX. 5) Texmacs.
Programs for three-dimensional modeling | SolidWorks, ... | ProEngineer Linux. [Prop]
Programs for three-dimensional modeling | CATIA | CATIA. It was designed under Unix, and from version 4 (2000) it was ported under Windows (not too successfully).
Programs for three-dimensional modeling | SolidEdge | SolidEdge (part of more powerful package Unigraphics).
Engineering | ANSYS | ANSYS.
CAD/CAM/CAE | AutoCAD, Microstation, ArchiCAD | 1) Varkon. 2) Linuxcad. [Prop, ~100$] 3) Varicad. [Prop] 4) Cycas. [Prop] 5) Tomcad. 6) Thancad. 7) Fandango (alpha-version). 8) Lignumcad. 9) Giram. 10) Jcad. 11) QSCad. 12) FreeEngineer. 13) Ocadis. 14) PythonCAD. 15) OpenCascade.
CAD/CAM/CAE, simplified | AutoCAD Lite | Qcad.
Desktop Publishing Systems | Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress | Adobe Framemaker. [Proprietary, cancelled]
Small desktop publishing systems | MS Publisher | 1) Scribus - Desktop Publishing for Linux. 2) KWord.
Diagram and chart designer | Microsoft Visio | 1) Kivio (Koffice). 2) Dia. 3) KChart. 4) xfig. 5) Tgif + dotty. 6) Tulip. 7) Poseidon for UML. [Prop & free versions] 8) JGraph + JGraphPad. (Java)
Geographic image processing software | Erdas Imagine, ER Mapper, ENVI | ENVI.
GIS (Geographical information system) | ArcView | All projects: FreeGIS Project. 1) Grass. 2) Quantum GIS. 3) PostGIS. 4) FreeGIS. 5) MapQuest. 6) MapBlast.
Interactive Geographic Data Viewer | 1) Thuban. | 1) Thuban.
Vectorization of bitmaps | MapEdit, Easy Trace | 1) Autotrace.
Software CNC, controlling machine tools | OpenCNC [Prop] | EMC.
Advanced text processing system in TeX style | MikTex, emTeX (DOS) | 1) TeX. 2) TeTeX / LaTeX 3) LyX (WYSIWYM). 4) Kile.
Convenient, functional and user-friendly TeX-files / dvi-files editor. | WinEdt | 1) Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment). 2) Ktexmaker2. 3) Tk LaTeX Editor.
Statistical Computing Language and Environment | S-PLUS | R.
Statistical analysis | SPSS, Statistica, SalStat | Many links - here. 1) PSPP. 2) OpenStat2. 3) "Probability and Statistics Utilities for Linux users" 4) SalStat.
Econometrics Software | Eviews, Gretl | 1) Gretl.
Emulation of the circuit | 1) Electronic Workbench 2) Altera MaxPlus+ | 1) Geda. 2) Oregano. 3) Xcircuit. 4) Gnome Assisted Electronics. 5) SPICE. 6) SPICE OPUS. 7) NG-SPICE.
Program to draw chemical structures | Chemdraw, Isisdraw | Xdrawchem.
Downloader and player for Olympus dictophone | Olympus DSS Player | ???
Market analysis | MetaStock | ???
Electronics scheme design | 1) PCAD 2) OrCad 3) Visio | 1) Eagle. 2) Geda.
The oscilloscope emulation | Winoscillo | Xoscope.
Measurement of the temperature and voltages on motherboard | MBMonitor, PCAlert, Speedfan | 1) KSensors. 2) KHealthCare (KDE). 3) Gkrellm + plugins + blackbox addons.
S.M.A.R.T-attributes and temperature of the hard disk | Come on CD with mainboard, Active SMART | 1) smartctl. 2) Hddtemp-0.3. 3) IDEload-0.2. 4) Smartsuite-2.1. 5) Smartmontools. 6) Ide-smart. 7) Smartsuite.
Memory testing | SiSoft SANDRA | Memtest86.
Program for watching temperatures, fanspeeds, etc | SiSoft SANDRA, SiSoft SAMANTHA | 1) Ksensors. 2) Lm_sensors. 3) xsensors. 4) wmsensormon and other applets for AfterStep / WindowMaker / FluxBox.
HDD testing / benchmarking | SiSoft SANDRA, SiSoft SAMANTHA, IOzone | 1) hdparm. 2) Bonnie++. 3) IOzone. 4) Dbench. 5) Bonnie. 6) IO Bench. 7) Nhfsstone. 8) SPEC SFS. [Prop]
Video testing / benchmarking | Final Reality | 1) X11perf. 2) Viewperf.
Realtime Control | SHA Sybera Hardware Access | DIAPM RTAI - Realtime Application Interface.
Simulator of nets | ??? | 1) NS.
Neural network simulation | ??? | 1) Xnbc. 2) Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS).
"Sensor for LCD" | ??? | 1) Sensors-lcd.
Electrocardiogrammas viewer | ??? | 1) ecg2png.
A software technology, that turns x86 computer into a full-function PLC-like process controller | SoftPLC | 1) MatPLC.
Catalog of the software for translators | - | Linux for translators.
Translation memory | 1) Trados Translators Workbench 2) Deja Vu 3) Star Transit 4) SDLX 5) OmegaT | 1) OmegaT.
Catalog of educational software | - | 1) SchoolForge. 2) Seul / EDU.
Designing and viewing DTDs | NearFar Designer [Prop] | ???
Finity Element Analysis | - | 1) FELT (Finity Element Analysis)
10) Emulators.
Virtual machine emulator | 1) VMWare [Prop] 2) Connectix Virtual PC [Prop] | 1) VMWare. [Prop] 2) Win4Lin. [Prop, $89]. 3) Bochs. 4) Plex86. 5) User Mode Linux. 6) QEMU 7) VirtualBox
Linux emulator | 1) CygWin. 2) MKS Toolkit. 3) Bash for Windows. 3) Minimalist GNU For Windows. | 1) User Mode Linux.
X Window System (XFree) emulator | XFree under CygWin. | -
Windows emulator | - | 1) Wine. (GUI: gwine, tkwine) 2) Transgaming WineX. (GUI: tqgui) [NF] 3) Crossover Office.
DOS emulator | - | 1) DOSBox. 2) Dosemu.
Sony PlayStation emulator | ePSXe, ... | 1) ePSXe. 2) Pcsx.
ZX Spectrum emulator | X128, Speccyal, SpecX, SpecEmu, UnrealSpeccy, ... | 1) Xzx. 2) Glukalka. 3) Fuse. 4) ZXSP-X. 5) FBZX. 6) SpectEmu.
Arcade machines emulator | ??? | 1) MAME. 2) Xmame / Xmess. 3) Advancemame. Frontends: advancemenu. ckmame. flynn. gmame. gnomame. grok. grustibus. gxmame. it. it's quit. fancy. kmamerun. kmamu. qmamecat. startxmame. setcleaner. tkmame.
ST emulator | 1) Steem. | 1) StonX. 2) Steem.
C64 emulator | ??? | 1) Vice. 2) Frodo.
Amiga emulator | ??? | 1) UAE. 2) WinUAE.
Mac 68k emulator | ??? | 1) Basilisk II.
Game boy emulator | 1) Visual Boy Advance | 1) Visual Boy Advance. 2) VGBA. (GUI: vgb-gui)
Atari 2600 Video Computer System emulator | 1) Stella | 1) Stella. 2) Saint.
NES / SNES emulator | 1) Zsnes. 2) Snes9x. | 1) Zsnes. 2) Snes9x. 3) FWNes. 4) GTuxNes.
M680x0 Arcade emulator | 1) Rainemu. | 1) Rainemu.
Multi / other emulators | ??? | 1) M.E.S.S. 2) Zinc.
11) Other / Humour :)
Space simulator | 1) Openuniverse. 2) Celestia. 3) Zetadeck. | 1) Openuniverse. 2) Celestia. 3) Kstars. 4) Zetadeck.
TV driver | - | RivaTV.

System, running from CD/DVD without installing (Live CD)

1) Windows PE.
2) PE Builder.

1) Knoppix.
2) Cool Linux.
3) Blin.
4) DemoLinux.
5) DyneBolic.
6) Gentoo (live CD).
7) Lonix.
8) Virtual Linux.
9) Bootable Business Card (LNX-BBC).
10) ByzantineOS.
11) FreeLoader Linux.
12) MoviX.
13) Freeduc CD.
14) SuSE live-eval CD.
15) Freedom Linux.
16) Eagle Linux.
17) Kurumin (Brazilian Portuguese only)
18) Ubuntu Live
19) ALT Linux Live

Boot rescue/tools diskette | Windows system diskette | 1) Linux system diskette. 2) Tomsrtbt. 3) BanShee Linux. 4) RIP.
Creation of LiveCD for system recovery | ??? | 1) Make CD-ROM Recovery.
File systems | FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ... | Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, ...
Local file systems mount | ext2fs (driver), explore2fs (program) - ext2/3 under Windows | Linux-NTFS. (driver for NTFS partitions mounting)
Installing software and uninstalling | InstallShield, WISE, GhostInstaller, Microsoft Installer - the analog of rpm | 1) Rpm. 2) Urpmi. 3) GnoRpm. 4) Nautilus RPM. 5) Apt-get & frontends (synaptic, aptitude, ...). 6) Apt-rpm. (for RedHat, SuSE, ALT Linux, etc) 7) yum (Yellowdog Updater Modified) 8) yum enhanced by ASPLinux. 9) Gentoo Portage
Installing software from source and uninstalling | Minimalist GNU For Windows | 1) make install, make uninstall 2) CheckInstall. 3) Sinstall. 4) Emerge (Gentoo). 5) Apt-get & frontends (synaptic, aptitude, ...).
System update | Windows Update | 1) Ximian Red Carpet. 2) Red Hat Network. 3) MandrakeOnline. 4) SuSE YaST Online Update. 5) Caldera Volution Online. 6) Apt. 7) Gentoo ebuilds (portage). 8) Debian GNU/Linux package search. 9) Yum.
Certification | MCSD, MCT, MCSE | 1) Red Hat Certification. 2) Sair Linux and GNU Certification. 3) Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC). 4) Linux+. 5) Prometric. 6) VUE.
Icons on desktop | Explorer | 1) Desktop File Manager. 2) Idesk.
Work with screensavers | Desktop properties | 1) xset. 2) xlockmore. 3) xscreensaver. 4) kscreensaver.
Place for keeping "removed" files | Trash | 1) Trash Can. 2) Libtrash.
Checking the hard disk | Scandisk | fsck -check or reiserfsck -check. Not needed with journaled file systems (reiserfs, ext3, jfs, xfs).
Defragmentation | defrag | Not needed.
GUI of the system | Windows Explorer | Kde, Gnome, IceWM, Windowmaker, Blackbox, Fluxbox, ...
Windows XP GUI | Windows XP | XPde.
Multiple workspaces | - | Yes!!! :).
Fast users / desktop switching | Windows XP feature for non- networked computers | 1) Ctrl+Alt+F1, login as new user at command-line interface, start GUI by entering command startx - - :1. Switch between screens using Ctrl+Alt+F7 or F8 depending on user. 2) Command "gdmflexiserver -n". 3) Built-in in KDE 3.1.
Flavors of the system | 9x, NT, XP | RedHat, Mandrake, Knoppix, Debian, SuSE, ALT, ASP, Gentoo, Slackware, Linux From Scratch, ...
Tactics | FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) | Open Source! "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win".
Source code of the kernel freely available | No | Of course :)
Command line and scripting | 1) command.com :). 2) cmd.exe 3) Windows Scripting Host 4) 4DOS / 4NT 5) Minimalist GNU For Windows 6) Unix tools for Windows (AT&T) 7) KiXtart 8) ScriptLogic [Prop] | 1) Bash. 2) Csh. 3) Zsh. 4) Ash. 5) Tcsh.
Free of charge operating system | Microsoft Windows. (Imagine yourself that in Russia there are 95% of users having a pirate copy of Windows :). | Linux - the Free operating system!!
- | Nimda | Slapper.
- | Wincih, klez, etc | No analogs
Backdoors and hidden keys | Decide it yourself :). | -
Easter eggs, undocumented possibilities | Logo with Windows developers, Doom in Excel 95, 3D-racing in Excel 2000, etc, etc... | -
The magazines | Windows Magazine | 1) Linux Journal. 2) Linux Gazette. 3) Linux magazine. 4) Linux pratico (Italy). 5) Australian Linux. 6) Linux Format
- | Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) | 1) Kernel panic. 2) Screensaver "bsod" :).
Whom it is necessary to curse for bugs and defects of the system | M$, Bill Gates personally | 1) Developers of the distribution. 2) All the Linux people and Linus Torvalds personally :). 3) Yourself and your own /dev/hands :)).
- | M$.com | GNU.org, FSF.org
- | Windows.com | Linux.org
- | Bill Gates, "Road ahead" | Linus Torvalds, "Just for fun" :).
- | Bill Gates, "Business @ the speed of thought" | Richard M. Stallman, "The right to read". The book: "Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman"

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Credits:

Fiodor Sorex - The coordination and support of the project since Jan-2005 till now (2011), updating the table, html, coding, webmaster, design.

Valery V. Kachurov - The coordination and support of the project till Jul-2003, updating the table, html.
Nesov Artem - The idea of the table and the first version + some corrections and additions.
Visitors of this page - A huge amount of letters with additions, corrections and just good wishes :). Thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!!! (Full list with rating - under construction).

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