List of Apps : Linux (open source) equivalents

[stmok]

How about everyone post what they use or find?

Reason?
I noticed that there's no list of apps that are the functional equivalents to commercial solutions for "alternative" OSs (anything other than Windows).

It would be good for everyone (beginner to pro user) to see what's out there, that you can get legally for free. Its most useful for the newbie who might consider making the transition to alternative OSs.

NOTE: These applications are open source.
NOTE 2: Ripping DVD apps removed due to Australian Copyright Laws.

To start off...

Office related apps

OpenOffice (Office suite)
=> http://www.openoffice.org/

AbiWord (Word Processing)
=> http://www.abiword.org/

Scribus (Desktop Publishing)
=> http://www.scribus.org.uk/

Gnumeric (Spreadsheet)
=> http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/


Home Theatre (as in HTPC)

Freevo
=> http://freevo.sourceforge.net/

MythTV
=> http://www.mythtv.org/



Graphics/3D Modelling/viewer/etc

GIMP (Image Manipulation)
=> http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape (Vector Graphics Editor)
=> http://www.inkscape.org/

Blender (3D modeling/animation/rendering/post-production/interactive creation/playback)
=> http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Home.2.0.html

Yafray (Raytracer)
=> http://yafray.org/

GQview (image viewer)
=> http://gqview.sourceforge.net/

IMGV (image viewer)
=> http://imgv.sourceforge.net/



Audio

Ardour (digital audio workstation)
=> http://ardour.org/

Hydrogen (advanced drum machine)
=> http://www.hydrogen-music.org/

Rosegarden (audio/MIDI sequencer, score editor, general-purpose music composition/editing environment)
=> http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/

LilyPond (Print Music, etc)
=> http://lilypond.org/web/

Audacity (Sound Editor)
=> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

MusE (MIDI/Audio sequencer)
=> http://muse-sequencer.org/



Programming (draft)

IDEs

Anjuta DevStudio
=> http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/

CodeBlocks
=> http://www.codeblocks.org/

KDevelop
=> http://www.kdevelop.org/


GUI related

GTK+
=> http://www.gtk.org/

Qt (Open-source version)
=> http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html

WxWidgets
=> http://www.wxwidgets.org/


Web Development

Nvu
=> http://www.nvu.com/

Bluefish
=> http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Quanta Plus
=> http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/index.php

Screem
=>http://www.screem.org/



Web browsing/email/etc

Firefox (Web browser)
=> http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Thunderbird (Email client)
=> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

SeaMonkey (All-in-one: Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing)
=> http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Evolution (Email client)
=> http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/



CD/DVD Burning

K3b
=> http://www.k3b.org/

Brasero
=> http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/



Virtualisation

QEMU
=> http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Xen
=> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/

Kernel Based Virtual Machine
=> http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki

VirtualBox
=> http://www.virtualbox.org/



Running Windows Apps under Linux/Unix

WINE
=> http://www.winehq.com/



Games

America's Army 2.5 (Linux version, stopped at ver 2.5)
=> http://www.3dgamers.com/games/americasarmy/downloads/

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
=> http://www.3dgamers.com/games/wolfensteinet/downloads/

Torcs (Car racing sim, OpenGL)
=> http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

FlightGear (Flight Sim, OpenGL)
=> http://www.flightgear.org/

Digital Paint (FPS paintball game based on the Quake engine)
=> http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~digitalpaint/news.php

Scorched3D (That classic game for DOS game gets revamped
with OpenGL on Linux/UNIX)
=> http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/



Media players

MPlayer - The Movie Player
=> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

VLC
=> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

xine
=> http://xinehq.de/



Instant Messenging

Pidgin (multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client)
=> http://www.pidgin.im/

aMSN (Windows Live Messenger clone)
=> http://www.amsn-project.net/

Ayttm (multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client)
=> http://ayttm.sourceforge.net/

Coccinella (Jabber client with Whiteboard)
=> http://thecoccinella.org/

CSpace (Chat and decentralized filesharing in one)
=> http://cspace.in/



Misc

GPLFlash (An attempt to make a free Flash alternative)
=> http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/

Scilab (Scientific Software Package...Like Matlab)
=> http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/

SystemImager (automates Linux installs, software distribution, and production deployment)
=> http://www.systemimager.org/

Mondo (disaster recovery suite)
=> http://www.mondorescue.org/

BRL-CAD (CAD)
=> http://brlcad.org/

Gnash (GNU Flash movie player)
=> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

[stmok]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Lin ... s_software

[Daemon]

Here's a few to add to the list:

Audio
Jokosher (Multitrack recorder and mixer)
=> http://www.jokosher.org/

IDE
Mono Develop (Full C# / .NET IDE for Linux)
=> http://www.monodevelop.com/Main_Page

CD Burning
Brasero (Neat looking CD Burning software)
=> http://perso.orange.fr/bonfire/

About all I can think of missing so far.

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Clonezilla
http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

What is Clonezilla ?

You're probably familiar with the popular proprietary commercial package Norton Ghost®, and its OpenSource counterpart, Partition Image. The problem with these software packages is that it takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers. You've probably also heard of Symantec's solution to this problem, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting!

Clonezilla, based on DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, and udpcast, allows you to do bare metal backup and recovery. Two types of Clonezilla are available, Clonezilla live and Clonezilla server edition. Clonezilla live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. While Clonezilla server edition is for massive deployment, it can clone many (40 plus!) computers simultaneously. Clonezilla saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk. This increases the clone efficiency. At the NCHC's Classroom C, Clonezilla server edition was used to clone 41 computers simultaneously. It took only about 10 minutes to clone a 5.6 GBytes system image to all 41 computers via multicasting!

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Some games...

Remember the X-COM series? Here's the open source clone...UFO: Alien Invasion
=> http://ufoai.sourceforge.net

Warzone 2100 Project
=> http://wz2100.net/
Used to be a commercial RTS game in the late 1990s on Windows and PlayStation...Now its an open source multi-platform RTS that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. All the closed/proprietary bits have been replaced with open source ones.

Freeciv (Civilization clone)
=> http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Unknown Horizons
=> http://www.unknown-horizons.org/site/
An isometric 2D real-time strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building.

Scorched Earth clones...
=> http://xscorch.org/
=> http://atanks.sourceforge.net/

More games can be found here...
=> http://happypenguin.org/

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OpenShot Video Editor (Non-Linear editor for Linux)
http://www.openshotvideo.com/

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DVDStyler
http://www.dvdstyler.de/

DVDStyler is a cross-platform free DVD authoring application for the creation of professional-looking DVDs. It allows not only burning of video files on DVD that can be played practically on any standalone DVD player, but also creation of individually designed DVD menus. It is Open Source Software and is completely free.

Supports both Linux and Windows.

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Meet the GIMP
=> http://meetthegimp.org/

This is a video podcast about GIMP.

The first 100 episodes and their related files can be downloaded via torrent. (Currently up to Episode 144 as of this post.)

Video format is in MP4.