Descript-xion of the program, executed task | Windows | Linux |
1) Networking. | ||
Web browser | Internet Explorer, Netscape / Mozilla for Windows, Opera [Prop], Phoenix for Windows, … | 1) Netscape / Mozilla. 2) Galeon. 3) Konqueror. 4) Opera. [Prop] 5) Phoenix. 6) Nautilus. 7) Epiphany. 8) Links. (with "-g" key). 9) Dillo. (Russian language patches - here). |
Console web browser | Lynx for Windows, links for Windows | 1) Links. 2) ELinks. 3) Lynx. 4) w3m. 5) Xemacs + w3. |
Email client | Outlook Express, Netscape / Mozilla for Windows, The Bat, Eudora, Becky, Datula, Sylpheed for Windows | 1) Evolution. 2) Netscape / Mozilla messenger. 3) Sylpheed, Sylpheed-claws. 4) Kmail. 5) Gnus. 6) Balsa. 7) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 8) Arrow. 9) Gnumail. 10) Althea. 11) Liamail. 12) Aethera. |
Email client / PIM in MS Outlook style | Outlook | 1) Evolution. 2) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop] 3) Aethera. 4) Sylpheed. 5) Sylpheed-claws. |
Email client in The Bat style | The Bat | 1) Sylpheed. 2) Sylpheed-claws. 3) Kmail. 4) Gnus. 5) Balsa. |
Console email client | Mutt for Windows [de], Pine for Windows, Pegasus | 1) Pine. [NF] 2) Mutt. 3) Gnus. 4) Elm. 5) Xemacs. |
News reader | Xnews, Outlook, Netscape / Mozilla | 1) Knode. 2) Pan. 3) NewsReader. 4) Netscape / Mozilla. 5) Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws. Console: 6) Pine. [NF] 7) Mutt. 8) Gnus. 9) tin. 10) slrn. 11) Xemacs. |
Files downloading | Flashget, Go!zilla, Reget, Getright, Wget for Windows, … | 1) Downloader for X. 2) Caitoo (former Kget). 3) Prozilla. 4) Wget (console, standard). 5) GUI for Wget: Kmago, Gnome Transfer Manager, QTget, Xget, … 6) Aria. 7) Axel. 8) Download Accelerator Plus. 9) GetLeft. 10) Lftp. |
Sites downloading | Teleport Pro, Httrack, … | 1) Httrack. 2) WWW Offline Explorer. 3) Wget (console, standard). GUI: Kmago, QTget, Xget, … 4) Downloader for X. 5) Pavuk. 6) XSiteCopy. 7) GetLeft. 8) Curl (console). |
FTP-clients | Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP, WSFTP, … | 1) Gftp. 2) Konqueror. 3) Dpsftp. 4) KBear. 5) IglooFTP. [Prop] 6) Nftp. 7) Wxftp. 8) AxyFTP. 9) mc. (cd ftp://…) |
Console FTP-clients | FTP in Far, ftp.exe | 1) Ncftp. 2) Lftp. 3) Avfs. (From any program: /#ftp:…) |
IRC-clients | Mirc, Klient, VIRC, Xircon, Pirch, XChat for Windows | |
Local network chat clients without server | QuickChat | 1) talk (console), ktalk. 2) Echat. 3) write, wall (chat between users of one machine) |
Local messaging with Windows machines | WinPopUp | smbclient (console). GUI: 1) LinPopUp. 2) Kpopup. 3) Kopete. |
Instant Messaging clients | ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, … Trillian ICQ (freeware, can replace all common IM clients), Miranda | 1) Licq (ICQ). 2) Centericq (ICQ, console). 3) Alicq (ICQ). 4) Micq (ICQ). 5) GnomeICU (ICQ). 6) Gaim. (Supports nearly all IM protocols) 7) Kopete. 8) Everybuddy. 9) Simple Instant Messenger. 10) Imici Messenger. 11) Ickle (ICQ). 12) aMSN (MSN). 13) Kmerlin (MSN). 14) Kicq (ICQ). 15) YSM. (ICQ, console). 16) kxicq. 17) Yahoo Messenger for Unix. 18) Kmess (MSN). |
Jabber IM clients | JAJC, Tkabber (+activestate tcl), Psi, Exodus, WinJab, myJabber, RhymBox, Rival, Skabber, TipicIM, Vista, Yabber, Miranda | 1) Tkabber. 2) Gabber. 3) Psi. 4) Gaim. |
Monitoring sites and mailboxes, displaying news headlines or full articles | WatzNew | 1) Web Secretary. 2) Knewsticker & korn. 3) Mozilla (???). 4) watch -n seconds lynx -dump |
Video/audio conference | NetMeeting | |
Voice communication | Speak Freely | |
Firewall (packet filtering) | BlackICE, ATGuard, ZoneAlarm, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, WinRoute Pro, Norton Internet Security, Sygate Personal Firewall PRO, … | iptables or more outdated ipchains (console, standard). Front ends: 1) Kmyfirewall. 2) Easy Firewall Generator. 3) Firewall Builder. 4) Shorewall. 5) Guarddog. 6) FireStarter. 7) Smoothwall. [Prop] 8) IPCop. 9) Zorp. |
IDS (Intrusion Detection System) | 1) BlackICE 2) Agnitum Outpost Firewall 3) Tripwire [prop] | 1) Snort. 2) Portsentry / Hostsentry / Logsentry. 3) Tripwire [GPL]. 4) Tripwall. 5) AIDE. 6) ViperDB. 7) Integrit. |
Visual route | VisualRoute [Prop] | 1) Xtraceroute. 2) VisualRoute for Linux. [Prop] 3) Mtr. 4) Geotrace. |
Content filtering | Proxomitron, ATGuard, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, Privoxy, MS ISA server, … | 1) DansGuardian. 2) Squid. 3) Squidguard. 4) Privoxy. 5) JunkBuster. 6) Zorp. 7) Fork. 8) Redirector. |
Traffic control / shaping | WinRoute Pro, … | 1) IP Relay. 2) ?q (from iproute2 package). 3) tc (from iproute2 package). 4) LARTC. |
Traffic accounting | Netstat, Tmeter, … | 1) Tcp4me. 2) Getstatd. 3) Ipacct. 4) Ipac-ng. 5) Ipaudit. 6) Lanbilling. 7) SARG (full Squid traffic). 8) Talinux. 9) NetUP UserTrafManager. 10) MRTG. 11) NetTop. |
Peer-to-peer clients / servers, file sharing | Morpheus (Gnutella), WinMX, Napster, KaZaA (Fasttrack), eDonkey [Prop], eMule, TheCircle, Bittorrent, SoulSeek | 1) LimeWire for Linux. (Gnutella) 2) Lopster. (OpenNAP) 3) Gnapster. (OpenNAP) 4) Mldonkey. (eDonkey) 5) eDonkey for Linux. (eDonkey) [Prop] 6) cDonkey. (eDonkey) 7) Gift client / server (Fasttrack) 8) ed2k_gui. 9) Gtk-Gnutella. (Gnutella) 10) Qtella. (Gnutella) 11) Mutella. (Gnutella, console) 12) TheCircle. 13) Freenet. 14) GNUnet. 15) Lmule. (eDonkey) 16) Bittorrent. 17) PySoulSeek. 18) Loophole. (WinMX) [Prop] |
"Hotline" p2p protocol clients / servers | ??? | Clients: 1) Gtkhx. 2) Fidelio. 3) GHX. [Prop] Servers: 1) Synapse. 2) HSX. |
Program for working with sound modem with many functions - from answerback and AON to fax device | Venta Fax, PrimaFax | 1) Gfax. (???) 2) PrimaFax for Linux. [Prop, 99$] 3) mgetty + voice + sendfax. 4) vgetty. |
Work with faxes | WinFax | 1) HylaFax. 2) Fax2Send. [Prop] 3) Efax. |
Dialup | Vdialer, et?/TD> | 1) Kppp. 2) X-isp. 3) wvdial. (Front ends: X-wvdial, kvdial, gtkdial). 4) Gppp. 5) Kinternet. 6) Rp3. 7) pppconfig + pon + poff. |
FTN editor | Golded | 1) Golded. 2) Golded+. 3) Msged. 4) Qded. |
FTN tosser | FastEcho, hpt | 1) hpt. 2) CrashEcho. 3) Qecho. 4) CrashMail II. 5) Fidogate - gate to news. 6) ifmail - gate to news. |
FTN mailer | SF-Mail, T-Mail | 1) ifcico. 2) qico. 3) Bforce. 4) Binkd. |
Remote management | VNC, Remote Administrator, Remote Assistance, Symantec pcAnywhere, Windows Terminal Server, Rdesktop, Radmin | 1) VNC. 2) ssh / openssh. 3) Remote management is built-in in XFree86. 4) Rdesktop Client. 5) rsh / rlogin. 6) telnet. 7) Gtelnet. |
Remote management | 1) VNC, Virtual Network Computing 2) Remote Administrator (Radmin) [Prop] 3) Remote Assistance [Prop] 4) Symantec pcAnywhere [Prop] 5) Windows Terminal Server [Prop] 6) Rdesktop [Prop] 7) Radmin [Prop] 8) PC-Duo [Prop] 9) Huey PC Remote Control (only for NT) [Prop] 10) Timbuktu Pro [Prop] 11) LapLink [Prop] 12) GoToMyPC [Prop] 13) Bo2k and other trojans | 1) VNC, Virtual Network Computing. 2) ssh / openssh. 3) Remote management is built-in in XFree86. 4) Rdesktop Client. 5) rsh / rlogin. 6) telnet. 7) Gtelnet. |
Transmission of the files on modem | HyperTerminal, Terminate, etc | 1) Minicom + lrzcz + Kermit. 2) Msterm. 3) Xtel. 4) uucp. 5) lrzsz + cu from uucp. |
Work with ssh | Putty, Irlex, cygwin + ssh | 1) Kssh. 2) ssh / openssh. 3) GTelnet. (Telnet, SSH, Rlogin) |
Network monitoring tool | Dumeter, Netmedic | 1) Gkrellm. 2) Big Brother. 3) Etherape. 4) Nagios. 5) Tkined. 6) MRTG. 7) Rrdtool. 8) PIKT. 9) Autostatus. 10) bcnu. 11) mon. 12) Sysmon. 13) Spong. 14) SNIPS. 15) iptraf (console). 16) Ksysguard. 17) OpenNMS. 18) tcpdump. |
Network maintance tool | HP OpenView, MS SMS, Tivoli | 1) HP OpenView agents for Linux. [Prop] 2) Big Brother. 3) Cheops. 4) Tkined. 5) OpenNMS. |
Protocols analysing, sniffing | Sniffer Pro, EtherPeek (TokenPeek, AiroPeek), Windump, Ethereal, MS Network Monitor, Iris, Lan Explorer, NetSniffer, Snort, … | 1) Ethereal. 2) Tcpdump. 3) Etherape. 4) Ntop. 5) ipxdump. (+ipxparse for parsing) 6) Snort. |
Security scanner | ShadowScan, ISS, Retina, Internet Scanner | 1) Nessus. 2) Nmap. |
Routing | MS RRAS | 1) iproute2 + iptables. 2) GateD. [Prop] 3) GNU Zebra. |
Utilites and libraries for Ethernet/IP testing | lcrzo | lcrzo |
IP-telephony | Buddyphone [Prop], Cisco SoftPhone | 1) GNU Bayonne. 2) Openh323. 3) OpenPhone. 4) tkPhone. 5) NauPhone. |
Sharing data/files | Windows shares | 1) NFS. 2) Samba. 3) Samba-TNG. 4) FTP. |
??? | Windows Domain, Active Directory | 1) Samba. 2) Ldap. 3) yp. |
Viewing Windows-network | Network neighborhood | 1) Samba. 2) KDE Lan Browser, lisa 3) LinNeighborhood. 4) xSMBrowser. 5) Komba2. 6) Konqueror. |
ADSL | - | 1) rp-pppoe. 2) Pptp client. |
Distributed computing | All projects. 1) Distributed.net. 2) Seti @ Home. 3) Foling @ Home. 4) Genome @ Home. * Some versions for Linux run only in console mode. | |
IPSEC protocol | - | FreeSWAN. |
2) Work with files. | ||
File manager in FAR and NC style | FAR, Norton Commander, etc | 1) Midnight Commander. 2) X Northern Captain. 3) Deco (Demos Commander) . 4) Portos Commander. 5) Konqueror in MC style. 6) Gentoo. 7) Vfu. 8) Ytree. |
File manager in Windows Commander style | Total Commander (former Windows Commander) | 1) Krusader. 2) Kcommander. 3) FileRunner (TCL/TK). 4) Linux Commander. 5) LinCommander. 6) Rox, Rox-Filer. 7) Emelfm. 8) Midnight Commander. |
File manager in Windows style | Windows Explorer | 1) Konqueror. 2) Gnome-Commander. 3) Nautilus. 4) Endeavour Mark II. 5) XWC. |
Quick viewing of local HTML documents | Internet Explorer | 1) Dillo. (Russian language patches - here). 2) Konqueror. 3) Nautilus. 4) Lynx / Links. |
Viewing all operations with files | Filemon | Filemon for Linux. |
Work with UDF | Roxio (former Adaptec) UDF Reader, Roxio Direct CD | Linux-UDF. |
Work with multi session CD + recovering information from faulty multi session disks | IsoBuster | CDFS. |
Work with compressed files | 1) WinZip 2) WinRar 3) 7-Zip | 1) Ark (kdeutils). 2) Gnozip. 3) KArchiveur. 4) Gnochive. 5) FileRoller. 6) Unace for Linux. 7) LinZip. 8) TkZip. |
Console archivers | arj, rar, zip, … | 1) tar, gzip, bzip2. 2) Unarc. 3) Lha. (on Japanese) 4) Infozip. 5) Arj. 6) Avfs. (The support of any archive from any program - file.zip#/…). 7) Zoo. 8) RAR for Linux. 9) CAB Extract. |
Program for files and directories comparison | 1) Beyond Compare. 2) Araxis Merge. 3) Minimalist GNU For Windows (diff.exe) | |
3) Desktop / System software. | ||
Text editor | Notepad, WordPad, TextPad, … | |
Console text editor | FAR Editor, … | |
Multi-purpose text and source code editor | SciTE, UltraEdit, MultiEdit, … | 1) Kate (KDE). 2) Nedit. 3) CodeCommander. 4) SciTE. 5) Quanta Plus. 6) Vim. 7) Xemacs. 8) Mcedit (comes with mc). 9) Jed. 10) Setedit. (Turbo Vision looking style) |
Text editor with cyrillic encodings support | Bred, Rpad32, Aditor | |
Viewing PostScript-x | RoPS | 1) GhostView. 2) Kghostview. 3) GV. 4) GGV. |
Viewing PDF | Adobe Acrobat Reader | 1) Acrobat Reader for Linux. [Prop] 2) Xpdf. 3) GV. 4) GGV. 5) Kghostview. |
Creating PDF | Adobe Acrobat Distiller | 1) Any Linux WYSIWYG program -> print to file -> ps2pdf. (Here's an article about this). 2) Adobe Acrobat Distiller for Linux. [Prop] 3) PStill. [Shareware] 4) PDFLatex. 5) Xfig. 6) Ghostscript-x. 7) Tex2Pdf. 8) Reportlab. 9) GV. |
Crypto | PGP, GnuPG + Windows Privacy Tools | 1) GnuPG (console) + GPA, KGpg, and other frontends. 2) PGP. [Prop] |
Disc volume encryption | EFS (standard), PGP-Disk, BestCrypt, Private Disk Light | 1) Loop-aes. 2) CFS. 3) TCFS. 4) BestCrypt. 5) CryptFS. |
Task scheduler | mstask, nnCron | cron, at (standard, console). GUI: Kcron. |
Outlook scheduler | Outlook scheduler | 1) KOrganizer. |
Virtual CD | VirtualDrive, VirtualCD, Daemon Tools, … | 1) Virtual CD Kernel Modul. 2) "cp /dev/cdrom mycd.iso" + "mount -o loop mycd.iso /mnt/cdrom/". |
Text recognition (OCR) | Recognita, FineReader | 1) ClaraOcr. 2) Gocr. 3) Kooka. |
Translators (cyrillic) | Promt, Socrat | Ksocrat (???) |
Eng-rus dictionaries (cyrillic) | ABBYY Lingvo, Socrat | 1) Mueller. 2) Ksocrat. 3) JaLingvo. 4) phpMyLingvo. 5) dict+Kdict. 6) DictX. 7) Groan. 8) Mova. 9) Slowo. |
Work with scanner | Programs on CD with scanner, VueScan | 1) Xsane. 2) Kooka. 3) Xvscan. [Prop] 4) VueScan. [Prop] |
Antivirus | AVG AntiVirus, NAV, Dr. Web, TrendMicro, F-Prot, Kaspersky, … | 1) Dr. Web for Linux. [Prop] 2) Trend ServerProtect for Linux. [Prop] 3) RAV Antivirus. [Prop] 4) OpenAntivirus + AMaViS / VirusHammer. 5) F-Prot. [Prop] 6) Sophie / Trophie. 7) Clam Antivirus. 8) Kaspersky for Linux. [Prop] |
System configuration | Msconfig, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, etc | 1) setup (Red Hat). 2) chkconfig (Red Hat). 3) redhat-config-<feature>. (Red Hat 8.0). 4) xf86config, xf86cfg. 5) Linuxconf. 6) Drakeconf. 7) Webmin. 8) yast ?yast2 (SuSE). 9) sysinstall (FreeBSD). 10) /dev/hands :). |
Boot managers | System Commander, PowerQuest Boot Magic, … | 1) Grub. 2) Lilo. 3) ASPLoader. 4) Acronis OS Selector [Prop]. 5) Ranish Partition Manager. 6) osbs. 7) Symon. 8) Smart Boot Manager. 9) Xosl. |
Hard disk partitions manager | PowerQuest Partition Magic [Prop], Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop] | 1) PartGUI. (GUI for partimage and parted) 2) GNU Parted. (GUI - QTParted). 3) Partition Image. 4) fips. 5) Diskdrake (Mandrake). 6) Paragon Partition Manager [Prop]. 7) Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop]. (review) |
LVM + soft-RAID + parted + … | - | EVMS. |
Backup software | ntbackup (standard), Legato Networker [Prop] | 1) Legato Networker. [Prop] 2) Lonetar. [Prop] 3) Disk Archive. 4) Bacula. 5) Taper. 6) dump / restore. (console, standard) 7) Amanda (console). 8) Mondo Rescue. (backups that boot and auto restore themselves to disk) |
Making images of disk partitions | 1) DriveImage 2) Ghostpe | 1) PartitionImage (GUI - PartGUI). 2) dd (console, standard). 3) Mondo Rescue. |
Machine mirroring over network | 1) ImageCast 2) Norton Ghost | |
Task manager | TaskMan (standard), TaskInfo, ProcessExplorer NT. | 1) top (console, standard). 2) Gtop, Ktop. 3) Ksysguard. 4) "ps aux|more", "kill <pid>" |
Mouse gestures | Sensiva | 1) Kgesture. 2) wayV. 3) Optimoz. |
Text to speech | MS text to speech | 1) KDE Voice Plugins. 2) Festival. 3) Emacspeak. |
Speech recognition | ViaVoice, DragonNaturally Speaking | Yes, there are no usable speech recognition packages. But: 1) Sphinx. 2) ViaVoice. (almost dead…) |
Stream text processing | Minimalist GNU For Windows (sed.exe) | 1) sed, awk. 2) perl. |
PIM / DB / notebook with tree view | TreePad [Prop] , Leo | 1) TreePad Lite for Linux. [Prop] 2) Yank. 3) TreeLine. 4) Gjots. 5) Leo. 6) Hnb - hierarchical notebook. |
Program for quick switching between resolutions and frequencies | Integrated with system, comes on CD with video card | |
Program for meta search | Integrated with system, Indexing service | 1) find (console, standard). 2) slocate (console, standard). GUI: 1) Gsearchtool. 2) Kfind. |
System monitoring | System monitor (built-in) | 1) Gkrellm. 2) Ksysguard. 3) Hot-babe. (If you can be shocked by nudity, don't use it :). |
Program for logs viewing | Event Viewer (built-in) | |
Data Recovery Tools | R-Studio (supports Linux partitions) | 1) e2undel. 2) myrescue. 3) TestDisk. 4) unrm. 5) Channel 16. |
Text files encoder with automatic detection of character set | ??? | |
Making the system more securely | ??? | 1) Bastille. |
Alarm clock | MindIt! | 1) KAlarm |
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