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: KidPix
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 = TransCalc
Compare to: Unknown
Financial
Personal Accounting = Grisbi
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: SimCity, 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)
Compare to: InDesign, Quark XPress, PageMaker
Mind Mapping = FreeMind (not in Ubuntu, .deb package download from site)
Compare to: Mindjet MindManager, 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: OmniPage, Recognita, FineReader
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 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, PowerLink 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, FireAnt
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: LOphtCrack
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: InstallShield, Microsoft Installer
Utilities
BitTorrent client = Azureus, BitTorrent Client
Compare to: Unknown
Compare to: WinZip
FTP Client = gFTP, FileZilla (Ubuntu 7.04 and later)
Compare to: SmartFTP, BulletProof FTP
Statistics on Disk usage = du, df
Compare to: WinDirStat
Compare to: Napster, Shareaza, Ares Galaxy
Remote Administration = RealVNC, TightVNC, rdesktop, FreeNX
Compare to: PCAnywhere, GoToMyPC.com, Windows Remote Desktop, UltraVNC
Server Applications :Need to be verified in repositories
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 GroupWise server
Instant messaging server = Jive Messenger
Compare to: Novell GroupWise 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)
All information, otherwise specified are from:
Software Equivalents - Community Ubuntu Documentaion
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoftwareEquivalents
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