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1. title Software Equivalents

WORK STILL TO DO This page is under heavy renovation at the moment - please feel free to join in. The following things need to be completed:

1. Incorporate the appropriate software from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalentsInternet
2. Incorporate the appropriate software from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalentsMultimedia
3. Verify all the apps in the noted sections below are in the standard/universe/multiverse repositories and remove any that are not easily available.
4. Add more great software to the list that would be useful to a new Ubuntu user from a Microsoft platform.

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Software Equivalents for migrating from a Microsoft Windows Operating Systems to Ubuntu Linux (SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows). See also WindowsApplicationsEquivalents. What is the Software Equivalents List? This is a list of the best open-source applications available and supported for Ubuntu for new Linux users to explore. Feel free to edit this list and add any programs that meet the criteria below. The purpose of this list is to guide new Ubuntu Linux users to quality software products that will help them accomplish tasks they are familiar with in other operating systems (such as Microsoft Windows). To learn more, read the FAQ FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions. Note that most Linux software has been developed not a clones of Windows software, but as software on its own, that provides functionality. Hence, in order to find replacement for your Windows program, you should search not only for a clone, but also for a Linux program that provides the functionality that you need, see Applications. If you have not yet found a replacement for your Windows program, you too can switch to Linux. In the meanwhile before finding a replacement, you can use your Windows program under Linux with Wine. Instructions: Tell all your non-Linux friends and family about the Software Equivalents list, and the ListOfOpenSourcePrograms. On these lists they will find free, high-quality replacements for the software that they have purchased/pirated. This list will help them make a smooth and productive transition to Ubuntu Linux. Rules for adding programs to the Software Equivalents list: 1. Must be open-source. 1. Must be available in an Ubuntu repository. 1. Only include the best application for each specific purpose. In rare cases, up to three applications may be listed. 1. Include the names of the top three commercial applications that provide similar functionality, if known.

Desktop Applications

Communication

Email Client = Thunderbird Compare to: Microsoft Outlook IRC Client = X-Chat 2 Compare to: mIRC Universal Instant Messaging Client = Pidgin (formerly Gaim) Compare to: Trillian Web browser = FireFox Compare to: Microsoft Internet Explorer Voice Over IP = OpenWengo Compare to: Skype

Educational

Learning Games = Childsplay Compare to: Unknown Planetarium = Stellarium Compare to: Unknown Space Simulator = Celestia Compare to: Unknown Flight Simulator = FlightGear Compare to: MS Flight Simulator Typing Tutor = Tux Typing Compare to: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Beginner Drawing Program = Tux Paint Compare to: Kid``Pix

Computer Aided Design (CAD)

General 2D/3D CAD = QCAD, VariCAD (proprietary) Compare to: AutoCAD 2D/3D CAD viewer = VariCAD Viewer (freeware) Compare to: Voloview/Trueview

Electrical Schematics

General Electronic Design Automation = gEDA Compare to: Unknown Circuit Board Design = PCB, xCircuit Compare to: Unknown Transmission Line Calculator = Trans``Calc Compare to: Unknown

Financial

Personal Accounting = Grisbihttps://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeSoftwareAlternatives Compare to: Quicken, Microsoft Money Accounting = Gnucash Compare to: Intuit Quickbooks Small Business ERP & CRM = FacturaLUX (English translation not yet available) Compare to: Concorde C5

Games :Need to be verified in repositories

3D Space Simulator = Vega Strike, Epiar Compare to: Eve-Online 3D Tank Battle (Real-time) = BZFlag Compare to: Unknown 3D Tank Battle (Turn-based) = Scorched 3D Compare to: Unknown 3D Pirate Action/Adventure = Crown and Cutlass Compare to: Pirates! Arcade space shooter = Chromium, Max Fighter, Kobo Deluxe Compare to: Demon Star, Chicken Invaders Billiards (Pool) = FooBillard Compare to: Unknown First-person Shooter = Sauerbraten, Warsow, Tremulous, OpenArena, Nexuiz Compare to: Quake, Doom, Unreal First-person Shooter (Hexen II clone) = Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion Compare to: Hexen II Karaoke player = Plarpebu, PyKaraoke Compare to: Unknown Lemmings-clone = Pingus Compare to: Lemmings Mario-clone = SuperTux, Secret Maryo Chronicles Compare to: Super Mario Bros Missle-Command clone = Penguin Command Compare to: Unknown MMORPG = PlaneShift, Eternal Lands Compare to: Everquest Pang clone = PiX Pang Compare to: Super Pang Racing = PlanetPenguin Racer (f.k.a. TuxRacer), VDrift, SuperTuxKart Compare to: Unknown Real-Time Strategy = Glest, Dark Oberon, Globulation Compare to: Warcraft 2, Starcraft Risk clone = JavaRisk Compare to: Unknown Net Hack clone = Vulture's Eye/Claw Compare to: Unknown Tron clone = Armagetron Advanced Compare to: Unknown Turn-based Strategy (Fantasy) = Battle for Wesnoth Compare to: Age of Wonders, Heroes of Might and Magic, Warlords Turn-based Strategy (World Building) = LinCity-NG OpenTTD Compare to: Sim``City, Transport Tycoon Deluxe Turn-based Strategy (Sci-Fi) = UFO: Alien Invasion, Zombies Compare to: X-Com Unique = SpiceTrade Compare to: Unknown Unique = Neverball Compare to: Unknown Unique = X-Moto Compare to: Elasto Mania

Productivity

Database (Desktop) = OpenOffice.org (Base) Compare to: Microsoft Office (Access) Desktop Publishing = Scribus Compare to: In'Design, Quark XPress, Page'Maker Mind Mapping = FreeMind (not in Ubuntu, .deb package download from site) Compare to: Mindjet Mind``Manager, Inspiration PDF creator = OpenOffice.org (Base) Compare to: PDF Creator, Adobe Acrobat Presentation = OpenOffice.org (Impress) Compare to: Microsoft Office (Powerpoint) Spreadsheet = OpenOffice.org (Calc) Compare to: Microsoft Office (Excel) Word Processor = OpenOffice.org (Writer), AbiWord Compare to: Microsoft Office (Word) Scientific Word Processor = LyX (LaTeX GUI frontend) Compare to: Scientific Word Notepad Replacement = gedit, SciTE Compare to: Notepad OCR = Tesseract OCR Compare to: Omni``Page, Recognita, Fine``Reader

Management :Need to be verified in repositories

Gantt chart = GanttProject Compare to: Microsoft Project Project management = Planner, OpenWorkbench Compare to: Microsoft Project Report Creator = JasperReports Compare to: Crystal Reports Analisi dei processi = APbyAS Compare to Unknown Gestione Attività = PMbyAS Compare to Microsoft Project

Misc

Animal Shelter Manager = Animal Shelter Manager (not in Ubuntu, .deb available) Compare to: Unknown Virtual PC emulator = Bochs, Qemu Compare to: VMware, Microsoft Virtual PC Linux environment = (WTF?) Compare to: Cygwin Recipe Manager = Gourmet Recipe Manager (not in Ubuntu, .deb available) Compare to: Unknown Screen Saver = GnomeScreenSaver, XScreenSaver, Really Slick Screensavers Compare to: Unknown Language Translation tool = OmegaT (not in Ubuntu) Compare to: Unkown

Multimedia :Need to be verified in repositories

3D

3D Animation = Blender, Wings 3D Compare to: Alias Maya 3D Graphics = POV-Ray Compare to: Unknown 3D Game Development Kit = Crystal Space, Ogre3d Compare to: Unknown

Audio :Need to be verified in repositories

Audio Editing = Audacity Compare to: Adobe Audition Audio Player = Coolplayer, Zinf Compare to: WinAMP, Windows Media Player Drum Machine = Hydrogen Compare to: Unknown MP3 Ripper = CDex Compare to: Unknown Volume normalizer = MP3Gain Compare to: Unknown

Drawing :Need to be verified in repositories

Diagram Editor = Dia Compare to: Microsoft Visio Image Editing = Gimp, Paint.NET Compare to: Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Vector Drawing = Inkscape Compare to: Adobe Illustrator, Xara Extreme, Corel Draw

Other :Need to be verified in repositories

HTPC/PVR Media Centre = MediaPortal Compare to: Microsoft Media Centre Edition (MCE), Showshifter, SageTV Media Player = VLC media player Compare to: Windows Media Player, Power``Link PowerDVD, Intervideo WinDVD Web Design = Nvu Compare to: Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver

Video :Need to be verified in repositories

Internet TV platform = Democracy Player Compare to: iTunes, Fire``Ant Video Capture = VirtualDub Compare to: Sorenson Squeeze Video MPEG-4 codec = ffdshow, XviD Compare to: DivX Video Editing = Jashaka, Avidemux, Compare to: Adobe After Effects, Pinnacle Studio, Apple Final Cut

Science

See UbuntuScience/AlternativesToProprietarySoftware.

Security :Need to be verified in repositories

802.1x client (EAP-TTLS) = SecureW2 Compare to: Unknown Anti-Spyware = Winpooch, Spybot Search&Destroy (not OpenSource, but FreeWare) Compare to: Unknown Anti-Virus = ClamWin Compare to: Unknown Encryption = Truecrypt Compare to: Unknown Network protocol analyzer = Wireshark Compare to: Sniffer Password strength testing = Ophcrack 2 Compare to: LOpht``Crack Password safe = KeePass Password Safe, Password Safe Compare to: Unknown VPN client = OpenVPN client GUI for Windows Compare to: Cisco VPN client, Nortel VPN client

Software Development :Need to be verified in repositories

Framework/Platform = Mono Compare to: Microsoft .NET Framework, Java Integrated Development Environment = Eclipse, SharpDevelop, Code::Blocks Compare to: Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland IDE Windows Installer = Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, Inno Setup Compare to: Install``Shield, Microsoft Installer

Utilities

[[UbuntuHelp:BitTorrent] client = [http|//azureus.sourceforge.net/ Azureus]], BitTorrent Client Compare to: Unknown [[UbuntuHelp:FileCompression] = [http|//fileroller.sourceforge.net/ File Roller]] Compare to: Win``Zip FTP Client = gFTP, FileZilla (Ubuntu 7.04 and later) Compare to: SmartFTP, Bullet``Proof FTP Statistics on Disk usage = du, df Compare to: Win``Dir``Stat [[UbuntuHelp:P2PFileSharing] = [http|//mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ MLDonkey]] Compare to: Napster, Shareaza, Ares Galaxy Remote Administration = RealVNC, TightVNC, rdesktop, UbuntuHelp:FreeNX Compare to: PCAnywhere, GoToMyPC.com, Windows Remote Desktop, UltraVNC

Server Applications :Need to be verified in repositories

Database

Database server = Firebird, MySQL, PostgreSQL Compare to: Microsoft SQL server, Oracle database

File Server

FTP server = ProFTPD, Pure-FTPd, vsftpd, WU-FTPD Compare to: Unknown

Messaging

Email server = hMailServer Compare to: Microsoft Exchange server, Novell Group``Wise server Instant messaging server = Jive Messenger Compare to: Novell Group``Wise Messenger

Security

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) = Snort Compare to: Unknown VPN server = OpenVPN Compare to: Cisco VPN

Web

Application server = JBoss Compare to: BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere Rich Internet Application Server = OpenLaszlo Compare to: Macromedia Flex Statistics Generator = AWStats Compare to: Unknown Web server = Apache Compare to: Microsoft Internet Information Services (ISS) Anchor(FAQ)

FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Why did you create a new list? There are other lists out there with similar information. This list serves a specific purpose, which is listed at the top of this page. Other lists on the web have good information, but are not as focused on the Ubuntu Linux experience. [ Insert Insightful Question Here ] Instead of copying the excellent work of Tristan Rhodes on the ListOfOpenSourcePrograms FAQ I urge you to read the original at ListOfOpenSourcePrograms.

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The Software Equivalents list was created by Daniel Skov Klejnstrup MailTo([email protected]). Edited and generally mucked around with by Jonathan Pruett MailTo([email protected]). Format and wording lean heavily on the excellent work of Tristan Rhodes MailTo(tristan NOSPAM AT witenko DOT com). Credit the things you like to Daniel, blame Jonathan for any formatting errors, and direct all flames to //dev/null

Comments

• Why are so many of the application you have suggested not the standard choice for Ubuntu or even Linux systems? E.g. Evolution is probably a lot closer to Outlook than Thunderbird, and is the default. Keep up the good work.
• Other pages with similar content, to be merged with this: FreeSoftwareAlternatives, WindowsApplicationsEquivalents

See also

• http://www.linuxalt.com/ The Linux Alternative Project
• http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.

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