Open Source Software Equivalents
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Use this page to document Open Source alternative programs to the mainstream applications. This data is better suited for a table, so please forgive my ignorance and lack of HTML skills. Please edit, revise, subtract or improve as needed. Props to the Cherry Hill LUG, from which this page is directly "borrowed" from.
Microsoft Office
Open Office 2.0 - Excellent alternative to Microsoft's Office Suite
Microsoft Outlook
Mozilla Thunderbird - Decent email client, but lacks the bells and whistles of Outlook 2003
Evolution - Designed to be a replacement for Outlook. Has many Outlook-like features that Thunderbird lacks.
Internet Explorer / Safari / Opera (Web Browsers)
Mozilla Firefox - Fully featured and open source web browser based on the old Mozilla suite browser. Popular due to it's expansive plug-in/extension support. Uses the Gecko rendering engine.
Konqueror - KDE's browser. Uses the KHTML engine (same engine in Safari)
Epiphany - GNOME's brownser. Also uses Gecko as it's rendering engine.
Adobe Photoshop
The Gimp - Powerful image editing program with features comparable to Photoshop
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla FireFox - Excellent stable browser w/ useful plugins
DVD and Media Player
Xine - Plays CDs, DVDs, VCDs, and common video formats
mplayer - Plays many different video formats. Try using it with a GUI frontend if you have problems with using a command-line
VLC (Video LAN Client) - Plays almost everything. CDs, DVDs, VCDs, DVD ISO Images, and almost every video and audio codec.
XMMS - Audio player similar to Winamp.
BMP - Audio player similar to Winamp, fork of XMMS.
Windows Movie Maker
mencoder - Can convert files into nearly every format that mplayer can play
Nero CD / DVD Burning Software
K3B
GnomeBaker
Microsoft Visual Basic
Kdevelop, QTDesigner, Glade, and Eclipse
DotGNU - Builds .NET compatible programs in Linux or Windows
Microsoft Active Directory Server
Fedora or RHEL Directory Server - possibly in conjunction with Samba 3 as a PDC
MS Publisher / Desktop Publishing
Scribus
Instant Messangers
Pidgin - Formerly known as Gaim. Supports many networks including AIM, Yahoo, Microsoft, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, and Google
3D Studio Max
Blender - 3D modeler with features similar to high-end commercial software
Adobe Audition (Sound recording and editing)
Audacity - Graphical sound recorder and editor.
Quicken (Accounting / Book Keeping)
GnuCash - Personal and small-business financial-accounting software. Allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses.
Security Camera/Surveillance
ZoneMinder - Linux Video Camera and CCTV Security with Motion Detection. Can use just about any webcam or video capture device that is usable on Linux.
VMWare / Virtual PC / Parallels (Virtualization)
Xen
VirtualBox
Bochs
KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Planned to be built into future versions of the Linux kernel.
WINE - Not truly a VM, WINE is instead an implementation of the Windows API on Linux allowing for running of Windows apps.
Links
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