Windows to Linux applications table of equivalents

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I created this wiki in hopes the community would put a similar table as
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
into a wiki so it can be collaborated on and updated as needed.

This wiki page is for a comparison between windows applications that run on linux.
What windows application roughly maps to a linux application.


Application/program

Windows

Linux

Sniffers

Sniffer Pro, wireshark (formerly ethereal)

wireshark

Virtualization

Virtual PC, Vmware

xen, vmware, qemu

Project Management

MS Project

Planner

Conferencing

NetMeeting

GnomeMeeting (aka Ekiga)

PDF creator

Adobe Acrobat Distiller

PDFLatex,Tex2Pdf,OpenOffice native to pdf

Text recognition (OCR)

IRIS

Kooka

Text to Speech,Speech Recognition

Dragon Naturally Speaking

Sphinx

Palm

Palm Desktop

Kpilot, J-Pilot, pilot-xfer (command line only tools)

CD/DVD Writing

Nero

K3B, Nero, GnomeBaker

Image Editing

Adobe Photoshop

Gimp

Flash Animation Creator

Macromedia Flash

DrawSwf

Case Tools

ArgoUml

ArgoUml,Umbrello

Scientific Math Application

Matlab

Matlab,Scilab,Octave

difference comparison tool

Beyond Compare, UltraCompare

kdiff3, docdiff, Meld

design viso

viso

dia

ISO tools

damount tools magic iso

ISO Master

Xwindows

na

xming great xwindow redirector

video/dvd player

na

vlc player

mapping ports to services

tcpview

netstat -nlp

media player

sled 11 packman.unixheads.com with suse/11.1 as a repository, you can use zypper to install mplayer and smplayer

cisco IOS simulator

GNS3

things I need to work out before upgrading from sled 10 to sled 11

  1. vpn work?
  2. wireshark installed and working
  3. mplayer
  4. truecrypt working? for ntfs?
  5. pidgin with encrypt plugin?
  6. vmware - play xp