LinuxVersionOf
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What Is The Linux Version of ???
People considering migrating from Windows to Linux are not merely concerned about having "reboot-free" computing, or faster filesystems, or such; they are also concerned about being able to have equivalent functionality to the applications that they used to run on Windows.
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Office Productivity
- OpenOffice.org provides a "suite" of applications relatively comparable to the components of Microsoft Office
- Gnumeric is a spreadsheet that is of fairly comparable power to Excel. See also Chris' Spreadsheet Page for links to other spreadsheets that run on Linux.
- AbiWord is a word processing package somewhat similar to Word. See also Wikipedia list of word processors to find other options.
- GIMP is often considered a reasonable alternative to PhotoShop
- GnuCash is intended to be a reasonable alternative to Quicken
- LedgerSMB is not as directly comparable to QuickBooks as OpenOffice.org is to Microsoft Office, but it is still reasonably featureful
- Often, there are radically different approaches available. For instance, for managing large, sophisticated documents, few systems compare with TeX and LaTeX; that approach to document creation is totally different from the way Word and similar "word processors" work.
- Note that the GNOME and KDE desktop environment projects have implemented their own flavours of replacements for many Windows applications. Both have fans and detractors.
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Web Stuff
Surfing:
- Mozilla is a highly credible alternative to Internet Explorer
- Firefox and Konqueror are also accomplished alternatives.
- Opera also runs on Linux.
- It does email as well.
- Dillo is a very compact browser. But it doesn't do JavaScript, CSS, etc...
Email:
- Thunderbird is very popular.
- KMail is the KDE email client.
- Evolution is the Gnome email client.
- Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws are lighter browsers, but lack HTML composition.
Instant messaging:
- Fans of instant messaging may find Kopete or Gaim to be suitable alternatives to Windows IM clients
- An old version of Skype works on Linux, and is still usable for voice chats
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Development Stuff
- SourceSafe versus Various SCM systems
- There are more or less direct emulations of Visual BASIC such as Gambas
- Fans of Delphi should take a look at FreePascal
- Borland created the "interactive IDE;" while there are many on Unix that consider the shell combined with Make to be a powerful IDE all by itself, there are Borland-like systems such as Anjuta and KDevelop
- MONO is an implementation of many of the technologies in the .NET framework.
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Music and Video
- XMMS has long been a music player supporting a lot of music formats
- mplayer, if combined with one of GUI front-ends, can play many of the video formats supported by QuickTime or Windows Media Player
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