When you move to a desktop such as Ubuntu, you should know that
there are many great Linux alternatives to the software you used to use
on Windows. Listed below is a a very nice compilation of the Windows
Softwares and their Linux Counterparts. Enjoy.
| Description | Windows | Linux |
| Desktop / System software. | ||
| Text editor | Notepad, WordPad, TextPad, Vim, Xemacs, … |
1) Kedit (KDE). |
| Console text editor | 1) Vim 2) Emacs 3) Editor from FAR, editor from DN, … |
1) Vim. |
| Multi-purpose text and source code editor | SciTE, UltraEdit, MultiEdit, Vim, Xemacs, … |
1) Kate (KDE). 3) CodeCommander. 5) Quanta Plus.
9) Jed. |
| Text editor with cyrillic encodings support | Bred, Rpad32, Aditor, Vim, Xemacs |
1) Kate (KDE). 3) Fte (console). |
| Viewing PostScript | 1) GhostView. 2) Kghostview. 3) GV. 4) GGV. |
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| Viewing PDF | 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller 2) GhostView |
1) Acrobat Reader. [Prop]
4) GGV. 5) GhostView. |
| Creating PDF | 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller 2) GhostView 3) Ghostscript |
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. 9) GV. 10) GGV.
11) GhostView. 13) Panda PDF Generator. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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]
7) Clam Antivirus. |
| System configuration | Control Panel, Msconfig, RegEdit, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, Config NT, … |
1) setup (Red Hat). |
| 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.  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) |
| LVM + soft-RAID + parted + … | - |
EVMS. |
| Backup software | ntbackup (standard), Legato Networker [Prop] | 1) Legato Networker. [Prop]
2) Lonetar. 3) Disk Archive. 4) Bacula. 5) Taper. 6) dump / restore. (console, standard) |
| 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. |
| 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 | No analogs  . |
| Mouse gestures | Sensiva | 1) Kgesture. 2) wayV. 3) Optimoz. |
| TV program | ??? | Home Portal. |
| Text to speech | MS text to speech | 1) KDE Voice Plugins. |
| 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. 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. |
| 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) |
1) mnoGoSearch. |
| 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  . |
| Program for logs viewing | Event Viewer (built-in) |
1) Xlogmaster. 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 | ??? | |
| 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 | |
| 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 . |
Credits: http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
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