Win32 Applications And Linux Equivalents? 26
Compaqed asks: "I have gotten approval from my company that I'll be allowed to install Red Hat on my work computer, and they gave me a laptop to sit beside it, for all the 'Windows Only Applications'. Now I know that there is StarOffice which will supplement for MS Office nicely. Is there a place that lists all programs that list Windows applications and their Open Source equivalents?" It would be nice if there was a fairly well-updated site that does this kind of thing. It would be an invaluable site for your average New Linux User.
Extending Win32 (Score:1)
are some URLs with tool/utils to extend the OS.
GNU Win32 related projects
http://www.nanotech.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu
A Linux-like Windows 95/98/NT
http://www.datacomm.ch/mwoog/software/linux_win
GNU utilities for Win32
http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUt
cheers
hmm... (Score:1)
2. NotePad - Vi
3. Internet Explorer - Netscape, Opera
4. M$ Office - Star Office
5. all the service packs - free kernel updates
6. M$-DOS - BASH
What type of applications are you using, and/or looking for?
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Linux apps (Score:1)
Anyway, what you need to do is go to www.freshmeat.net and look at all the lovely linux apps there. You will be able to draw up your own list of windows equivalents in no time!
photoshop - gimp
explorer - gmc
wsftp - gftp
etc.
Baz
assuming a GNOME desktop... (Score:4)
word - wordperfect 8 (free version) (linux.corel.com)
excel - gnumeric (with GNOME)
wsftp - gftp (gftp.seul.org)
photoshop - gimp (with GNOME)
free agent (news) - pan (with GNOME)
winamp - xmms (www.xmms.org)
visio - dia (with GNOME)
freecell - freecell (with GNOME)
minesweeper too!
mirc - xchat (with GNOME)
napster - gnapster (with GNOME)
eudora - balsa (http://www.newton.cx/balsa/)
netscape (shockwave flash is available)
any more obvious ones I missed?
All of these programs are top-notch in quality, although some are less finished than others.
Re:hmm... (Score:1)
Making a list of comparable applications is both trivial and questionable. The ideal way of learning to use Linux is having a friend nearby to ask questions to. You can't find a better knowledge base than a user community.
Last point: applications should not tend to emulate Windows counterparts, but go for quality and second ease to use.
M$ vs Linux Apps (Score:2)
M$-DOS Edit == aee, pico, or vi
Command.com == bash, tcsh, ash, ksh or zsh
DOS-Shell (from DOS 4 & 5) == Midnight Commander
GUI Programs :-P)
Notepad == NEdit, GNotepad, GEdit, or KEdit
Solitaire == KPat
WS-FTP == gFTP
Windows Explorer == X WinCommander or KFM
Dial-up Networking == KPPP
Excel == GNUmeric or SIAG
WordPad == Pathetic Writer (what a name!
WinAmp == xmms
DOS Window == xterm or rxvt
Turbo C == Emacs + gcc
Plus, programs that are available for both:
Netscape, RealPlayer, WordPerfect, StarOffice, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python, XBasic (although some work better than others)
So you don't really lose a lot when migrating from Windows to Linux. In fact, you gain quite a bit in overall reliability even though some Linux apps could be improved (such as RealPlayer).
A basic one... (Score:2)
Re:assuming a GNOME desktop... (Score:1)
gnomba - for browsing SMB shared resources.
ICQ - gnomeICU (pretty simple, but pretty effective and compatible)
And don't forget to check the source [gnome.org].
Re:A basic one... (Score:1)
StarOffice is great but... (Score:1)
Abi Word does not provide all the features you may expect from a word processor, but is quite useful IMHO. Gnumeric is a fairly advanced replacement for Excel and it keeps improving at an amazing pace. Give'em a try.
HelixCode (Score:1)
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visio - SodiPodi (with GNOME) (Score:1)
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StarOffice != MSOffice (Score:1)
Strikingly, I notice that the apps being mentioned don't seem to include any other desktop RDBMS either. SQL servers are great at one end of things, and sorting lines in a spreadsheet at the other, but there must be something like Access (or like Approach, if you prefer) for Linux.
Err... (Score:1)
Sodipodi is cool too though.
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WINE (Score:2)
if it works out for you, you even get to take your notebook home =)
Re:Extending Win32 (Score:1)
Re:HelixCode (Score:2)
Re:Linux apps (Score:1)
LaTeX + editor of choice == really nice looking documents, print or on screen. Or you can use one of the graphical front ends (Klyx or something like that?).
Re:M$ vs Linux Apps (Score:2)
trubo c = xwpe(or wpe) + gcc
wpe is a complete rip of the turbo interface.
not that its a bad thing(nothing compares to vi)
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Outlook != Pine (Score:1)
I am a huge fan of pine, but it certainly is not a replacement for Outlook, especially in a business setting. Just simply reading e-mail, it's fine, but dealing with attachments is cumbersom in pine as compared to outlook. (It's not hard, but drag and drop takes a lot less time.)
Outlook makes my job alot easier every day. It does have problems with the VB scripts that piss everyone off, but those are not hard to avoid. Pine was great in the days of text only internet, but it does not fit well with today's workplace or home environment. Trying to make it suit that role is like saying "use lynx instead of Netscape/IE/Opera." It just doesn't work
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Wine (Score:1)
Re:Other software...? (Score:1)
cdrwin - x-cd-roast [freshmeat [freshmeat.net]]
ipchains GUI - GFCC [freshmeat [freshmeat.net]]
network neighbourhood - xsmbrowser [iastate.edu]
ftp clients - [freshmeat [freshmeat.net]]
Other software!? (Score:1)
CDrwin, Nice programm to burn bin/cue images.
A graphical firewall interface for ipchains.
Network Neighbourhood, so i can see all workgroups.
Flashfxp.
some others (Score:1)
Re:WINE and Win4Lin (Score:1)
Re:HelixCode (Score:1)
~Sentry21~