On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 07:11:15PM +0530, Dinesh Bareja wrote:
Hi
I would like to build a list of Open Source apps which can be used instead of commonly used applications under the Win. The idea is to invite all you folks to contribute to the listing and I shall compile all the contributions and make it available as a PDF or HTML document which can be posted on the LUG website.
Here is a list of some commonly used Windows App and it's open source substitute(s)
Windows App OS App ----------- ------ Microsoft Office Open Office.org 1.0* Outlook, OE. Evolution, Kmail. Winamp Xmms. Windows Media Player mplayer, xine, ogle. Internet Explorer Mozilla*, Phoenix, Netscape*. Adobe Photoshop Gimp.* mIRC X-Chat*, BitchX*, irssi. IM programs (yahoo, msn, etc) Gaim*, Everybudyy. IIS Webserver Apache Web Server*. IIS, Serv-U FTP servers NcFTPd, ProFTPd ftp servers FlashFXP, ws-ftp, cute ftp ncftp, gftp, mc Securecrt, Sera-Term Pro. Openssh and any shell, putty*. Acrobat Reader for pdf files gv.
* - These applications are available as win32 binaries also, so that people can test them out on Windows before migrating to an Open Source OS like GNU/Linux. The above is, by no means, a comprehensive list. It's simply a list that, imo, lists most of the commonly used Windows Applications and their Opensource substitutes. The information regarding each of those Applications can be found via a site like freshmeat of sourceforge, and therefore, I am not posting it to the LUG to waste people's bandwidth. Hope this helps,
Best wishes
- Dinesh Bareja
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