Application Category Windows Linux
1) Internet / Intranet
Web browser Internet Explorer, Mozilla For Windows, Opera 1) Mozilla.
2) Galeon.
3) Konqueror.
4) Opera.
5) Phoenix.
6) Nautilus.
Console web browser Lynx For Windows 1) Links.
2) Lynx.
Email client Outlook Express, Mozilla for Windows, Eudora 1) Evolution.
2) Mozilla messenger.
3) Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws.
4) Kmail.
5) Gnus.
6) Balsa.
7) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Proprietary]
Email client in MS Outlook style Outlook 1) Evolution.
2) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Proprietary]
Email client in TheBat style The Bat! 1) Sylpheed.
2) Sylpheed-claws.
3) Kmail.
4) Gnus.
5) Balsa.
Console email client Mutt for Windows 1) Pine.
2) Mutt.
3) Gnus.
News reader Outlook 1) Knode.
2) Pan.
3) Mozilla.
4) Pine. (console)
5) Mutt. (console)
File download Flashget, Go!zilla, Reget, Getright 1) Downloader for X.
2) Caitoo (former Kget).
3) Aria.
3) Wget (console, standard).
Site download Teleport Pro 1) Httrack.
2) Downloader for X.
3) Wget (console, standard).
4) Pavuk.
FTP-clients Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP 1) Gftp.
2) Dpsftp.
3) KBear.
4) IglooFTP.
Console FTP-clients 1) Ncftp.
2) Lftp.
IRC-clients Mirc, Klient, VIRC, Xircon

1) Xchat.
2) KVirc.
3) Irssi.
4) BitchX.
5) Ksirc.
6) Epic.
7) Sirc.
Instant Messaging ICQ, MSN, AIM 1) Licq.
2) Gaim.
3) Centericq (console).
4) Alicq.
5) Micq.
6) Simple Instant Messenger.
7) Everybuddy.
8) Jabber.
9) GnomeICU.
Firewall (packet filtering) BlackICE, ATGuard, ZoneAlarm iptables/iptables (console, standard). Front ends:
1) Kmyfirewall.
2) Easy Firewall Generator.
3) Firewall Builder.
4) Shorewall.
5) Guarddog.
Visual route VisualRoute 1) Xtraceroute.
2) VisualRoute for Linux.
3) Mtr.
Content filtering Proxomitron, ATGuard 1) Squid.
2) Squidguard.
3) Privoxy.
4) Mozilla (has a possibility to filter the content).
Work with fax WinFax 1) HylaFax
2) Fax2Send.
Dialup Vdialer 1) Kppp.
2) X-isp.
3) wvdial. (Front ends: X-wvdial, kvdial, gtkdial).
4) Gppp.
5) Kinternet.
6) Rp3.
Remote management VNC, Remote Administrator, Remote Assistance, Symantec pcAnywhere, Windows Terminal Server, Rdesktop 1) VNC.
2) ssh.
3) Remote management is built-in in XFree86.
4) freeS/WAN.
Work with ssh Putty 1) Kssh.
2) ssh.
Network Monitoring Dumeter, Netmedic 1) Gkrellm.
2) Big Brother.
2) File Management.
File manager in FAR and NC style FAR, Norton Commander, etc 1) Midnight Commander.
2) X Northern Captain.
3) Deco.
File manager in Windows Commander style Total Commander (former Windows Commander) 1) Midnight Commander.
2) Krusader.
3) Kcommander.
4) FileRunner (is written on TCL/TK).
5) Linux Commander.
6) LinCommander.
7) Rox.
File manager in Windows style Windows Explorer 1) Konqueror.
2) Gnome-Commander.
3) Nautilus.
Quick viewing of local HTML documents Internet Explorer 1) Dillo here
2) Konqueror.
3) Nautilus.
4) Lynx / Links
3) Utility Programs.
Simple text editor Notepad

1) Kedit (KDE).
2) Gedit (Gnome).
3) Gnotepad.
4) Kate (KDE).
5) Nedit.
6) vi, emacs, pico, joe (console).
7) Fte (console).
ZIP WinZip 1) Gnozip.
2) LinZip.
3) Ark (kdeutils).
4) KArchiveur.
RAR Format WinRar

1) RAR for Linux.
2) Ark (kdeutils).
3) KArchiveur.
Viewing PDF Adobe Acrobat Reader 1) Acrobat Reader for Linux.
2) Xpdf.
3) GV.
Creating PDF Adobe Acrobat Distiller 1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller for Linux.
2) PStill.
Crypto PGP 1) PGP.
2) GnuPG.
Antivirus Dr. Web, Kaspersky, NAV, ... 1) Dr. Web for Linux.
2) Kaspersky for Linux.
3) Ravantivirus.
4) Multimedia / Graphics.
Music / mp3 / ogg players Winamp 1) XMMS (X multimedia system).
2) Noatun.
3) Freeamp.
4) GQmpeg.
5) SnackAmp.
Console music / mp3 / ogg players mpg123 for Windows, dosamp

1) mpg123 / ogg123.
2) mpg321.
3) Orpheus.

Programs for CD burning with GUI Nero, Roxio Easy CD Creator, ... 1) K3b. (KDE)
2) XCDRoast.
3) KOnCd.
4) Eclipt Roaster.
5) Gnome Toaster.
6) CD Bake Oven.
7) SimpleCDR-X.
CD player CD player 1) Orpheus. (console)
Graphic files viewer ACDSee, IrfanView 1) Xnview.
2) GQview.
3) Kuickshow.
4) imgv.
5) Gwenview.
6) Gliv.
Simple graphic editor Paint 1) Kpaint.
2) Tuxpaint.
3) Xpaint.
Powerful graphic editor in PhotoShop style Adobe Photoshop, Gimp for Windows, Paint Shop Pro 1) Gimp, FilmGimp.
2) ImageMagick.
Programs for work with vector graphics Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw 14, Freehand

1) Sodipodi.
2) xfig.
3) Sketch.
4) Karbon14 and Kontour.
5) OpenOffice Draw.
6) Dia.
7) Tgif.
8) Gestalter.
- Corel Draw 9 Corel Draw 9 for Linux.
- Corel PhotoPaint 9 Corel PhotoPaint 9 for Linux.
Flash playing Flash Player 1) Flash Player for Linux (???).
2) Plugin for Netscape/Mozilla (download here or here).
Web-graphics creation Macromedia Fireworks Gimp.
3D-graphics 3D Studio MAX 1) Blender.
2) Maya.
3) KPovModeler.
4) K3Studio.
5) GIG3DGO.
Icon editor Microangelo 1) Gnome-iconedit.
2) Kiconedit.
Small program for making screenshots Integrated with system (PrintScreen), Snag it, ... 1) Ksnapshot.
2) Xwpick.
5) Office / Business.
Office suite MS Office, Openoffice for Windows

1) Openoffice.
2) Staroffice. [Proprietary]
3) Koffice.
4) HancomOffice.
5) Gnome Office.
6) Applixware Office.
7) Siag Office.
8) TeX, LaTeX, ...
Word processor Word 1) Abiword.
2) WordPerfect.
3) Ted.
4) OpenOffice Writer.
5) Kword.
Spreadsheets Excel

1) Gnumeric.
2) Abacus.
3) OpenOffice Calc.
4) Kspread.
Creating presentations MS PowerPoint

OpenOffice Impress.
Local database Access

1) KNoda.
2) Gnome DB Manager.
3) OpenOffice + MySQL.
4) Postgresql
Financial accounting package (India & Asia) Tally Kalculate. [Proprietary]
Software for e-commerce and web business Weblogic/Websphere/iPlanet 1) Weblogic for Linux. [Proprietary]
2) JBoss.
6) Programming and Development.
IDE Microsoft VisualStudio .net

1) CodeForge.
2) Kdevelop + Qt3 Designer.
3) Glade + Motor
Visual C++ IDE Borland C++ Builder, MS Visual C
 1) Anjuta + Glade + Devhelp.
2) KDE Studio.
3) Dev-C++.
4) Kylix. [Proprietary] (Kylix Personal Edition is free).
C++ IDE Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS
 GCC + Motor.
Object Pascal IDE Delphi 1) Kylix. [Proprietary] (Kylix Personal Edition is free).
2) Lazarus + FPC.
Pascal Pascal, BP 1) Freepascal.
2) GNU Pascal.
3) RShell (in style of Borland Pascal 7.0)
Basic Basic 1) Hbasic.
2) X-basic.
3) Yabasic.
4) SmallBASIC.
Prolog VisualProlog GNU Prolog.
Assembler TASM, MASM 1) NASM.
2) FLAT Assembler.
Reverse Engineering SoftIce The source code is open.
Debugger - 1) gdb.
2) ddd (frontend for gdb).
WYSIWYG html editor Macromedia Dreamweaver, Frontpage 1) Mozilla Composer.
2) Openoffice HTML editor.
3) Amaya.
4) GINF