One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often don't know too much about Windows :). This list of Linux equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software is based on our own experience and on the information obtained from the visitors of this page (thanks!).
This table is not static since new application names can be added to both left and the right sides. Also, the right column for a particular class of applications may not be filled immediately. In future, we plan to migrate this table to the PHP/MySQL engine, so visitors could add the program themselves, vote for analogs, add comments, etc.
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Description of the program, executed task
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Windows
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Linux
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1) Networking.
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Web browser
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Internet Explorer, Netscape / Mozilla, Opera [Prop], Firebird, ...
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1) Netscape / Mozilla.
2) Galeon.
3) Konqueror.
4) Opera. [Prop]
5) Firebird.
6) Nautilus.
7) Epiphany.
8) Links. (with "-g" key).
9) Dillo. (Russian language patches - here).
10) Encompass.
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Console web browser
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1) Links
2) Lynx
3) Xemacs + w3.
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1) Links.
2) ELinks.
3)Lynx.
4) w3m.
5) Xemacs + w3.
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Email client
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Outlook Express, Netscape / Mozilla , The Bat, Eudora, Becky, Datula, Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws, Opera
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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.
13) MailWarrior.
14) Opera.
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Email client / PIM in MS Outlook style
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Outlook
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1) Evolution.
2) Bynari Insight GroupWare Suite. [Prop]
3) Aethera.
4) Sylpheed.
5) Sylpheed-claws.
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Email client in The Bat style
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The Bat
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1) Sylpheed.
2) Sylpheed-claws.
3) Kmail.
4) Gnus.
5) Balsa.
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Console email client
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Mutt [de], Pine, Pegasus, Emacs
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1) Pine. [NF]
2) Mutt.
3) Gnus.
4) Elm.
5) Emacs.
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News reader
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1) Agent [Prop]
2) Free Agent
3) Xnews
4) Outlook
5) Netscape / Mozilla
6) Opera [Prop]
7) Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws
8) Dialog
9) Gravity
10) BNR2
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1) Knode.
2) Pan.
3) NewsReader.
4) Netscape / Mozilla.
5) Opera [Prop]
6) Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws.
Console:
7) Pine. [NF]
8) Mutt.
9) Gnus.
10) tin.
11)slrn.
12) Xemacs.
13) BNR2.
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Address book
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Outlook
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1) Rubrica
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Files downloading
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Flashget, Go!zilla, Reget, Getright, DAP, Wget, WackGet, Mass Downloader, ...
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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.
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Sites downloading
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Teleport Pro, Httrack, Wget, ...
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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).
9) Khttrack.
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FTP-clients
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Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP, WSFTP, SmartFTP, FileZilla, ...
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1) Gftp.
2) Konqueror.
3) KBear.
4) IglooFTP. [Prop]
5) Nftp.
6) Wxftp.
7) AxyFTP.
8) mc. (cd ftp://...)
9) tkFTP.
10) Yafc.
11) Dpsftp. (dead project)
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Console FTP-clients
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FTP in Far, ftp.exe, Ncftp
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1) Ncftp.
2) Lftp.
3) Avfs. (From any program: /#ftp:...)
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IRC-clients
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Mirc, Klient, VIRC, Xircon, Pirch, XChat
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1) Xchat.
2) KVirc.
3) Irssi.
4) BitchX.
5) Ksirc.
6) Epic.
7) Sirc.
8) PJIRC.
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Local network chat clients without server
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1) QuickChat
2) Akeni
3) PonyChat
4) iChat
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1) talk (console), ktalk.
2) Akeni.
3) Echat.
4) write, wall (chat between users of one machine)
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Local messaging with Windows machines
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WinPopUp
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smbclient (console). GUI:
1) LinPopUp 2.
2) Kpopup.
3) Kopete.
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Instant Messaging clients
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ICQ Lite, ICQ Corp, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ...
Trillian ICQ (freeware, can replace all common IM clients), Miranda, Gaim
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1) Licq (ICQ).
2) Centericq (Nearly all IM protocols, console).
3) Alicq (ICQ).
4) Micq (ICQ).
5) GnomeICU (ICQ).
6) Gaim. (Nearly all IM protocols)
7) Ayttm. (Nearly all IM protocols)
8) Kopete.
9) Everybuddy.
10) Simple Instant Messenger.
11) Imici Messenger.
12) Ickle (ICQ).
13) aMSN (MSN).
14) Kmerlin (MSN).
15) Kicq (ICQ).
16) YSM. (ICQ, console).
17) kxicq.
18) Yahoo Messenger for Unix.
19) Kmess (MSN).
20) AIM.
21) MSNre. (console)
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Jabber IM clients
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JAJC, Tkabber (+activestate tcl), Psi, Exodus, WinJab, myJabber, RhymBox, Rival, Skabber, TipicIM, Vista, Yabber, Miranda, Gaim, Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition
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1) Tkabber.
2) Gabber.
3) Psi.
4) Gaim.
5) Centericq (console).
6) Ayttm.
7) Akeni Messenger Jabber Edition.
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Monitoring sites and mailboxes, displaying news headlines or full articles
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WatzNew
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1) Web Secretary.
2) Knewsticker & korn.
3) Mozilla (???).
4) watch -n seconds lynx -dump
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Video/audio conference
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NetMeeting
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1) GnomeMeeting.
2) vat/vic/wb.
3) rat/wbd/nte.
4) NeVoT.
5) IVS.
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Voice communication
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Speak Freely
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1) Speak Freely for Unix.
2) TeamSpeak.
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Firewall (packet filtering)
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BlackICE, ATGuard, ZoneAlarm, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, WinRoute Pro, Norton Internet Security, Sygate Personal Firewall PRO, Kerio Personal Firewall, ...
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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.
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IDS (Intrusion Detection System)
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1) BlackICE
2) Agnitum Outpost Firewall
3) Tripwire [prop]
4) Kerio Personal Firewall
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1) Snort.
2) Portsentry / Hostsentry / Logsentry.
3) Tripwire [GPL].
4) Tripwall.
5) AIDE.
6) ViperDB.
7) Integrit.
8) Cerberus Intrusion Detection System.
9) MIDAS NMS.
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Port scanning detection
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???
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1) Pkdump.
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Making the system more securely
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???
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1) Bastille.
2) Linux Security Auditing Tool.
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Visual route
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VisualRoute [Prop]
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1) Xtraceroute.
2) VisualRoute. [Prop]
3) Mtr.
4) Geotrace.
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Content (ad / popup) filtering
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Proxomitron, ATGuard, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, Privoxy, MS ISA server, Guidescope, ...
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1) DansGuardian.
2) Squid.
3)Squidguard.
4)Privoxy.
5) JunkBuster.
6) Zorp.
7) Fork.
8) Redirector.
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Traffic control / shaping
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WinRoute Pro, ...
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1) IP Relay.
2) CBQ (from iproute2 package).
3) tc (from iproute2 package).
4) LARTC.
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Traffic accounting
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Netstat, Tmeter, ...
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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.
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Peer-to-peer clients / servers, file sharing (p2p)
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Morpheus (Gnutella), WinMX, Napster, KaZaA (Fasttrack), eDonkey [Prop], eMule, TheCircle, Bittorrent, SoulSeek, Direct Connect
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1) Mldonkey. (eDonkey, Soulseek, Fasttrack, Gnutella, Open Napster, Direct Connect, BitTorrent)
2) LimeWire. (Gnutella)
3) Lopster. (OpenNAP)
4) Gnapster. (OpenNAP)
5) eDonkey. (eDonkey) [Prop]
6) cDonkey. (eDonkey)
7) Gift client / server / fasttrack plugin (Fasttrack)
8) ed2k_gui.
9) Gtk-Gnutella. (Gnutella)
10) Qtella. (Gnutella)
11) Mutella. (Gnutella, console)
12) TheCircle.
13) Freenet. (fully anonymous p2p)
14) GNUnet.
15) Lmule. (eDonkey)
16) Xmule. (eDonkey)
17) Bittorrent.
18) PySoulSeek (Soulseek).
19) Loophole. (WinMX) [Prop]
20) Direct Connect.
21) QuickDC. (Direct Connect).
22) OverNet.
23) Apollon.
24) GrapeWine. (fully anonymous p2p)
25) Snark. (Bittorrent)
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"Hotline" p2p protocol clients / servers
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???
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Clients:
1) Gtkhx.
2) Fidelio.
3) GHX. [Prop]
Servers:
1) Synapse.
2) HSX.
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Program for working with sound modem with many functions - from answerback and AON to fax device
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Venta Fax, PrimaFax
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1) Gfax. (???)
2) PrimaFax. [Prop, 99$]
3) mgetty + voice + sendfax.
4) vgetty.
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Work with faxes
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WinFax
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1) HylaFax.
2) Fax2Send. [Prop]
3) Efax.
4) VSI-FAX. [Prop]
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Dialup
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Vdialer, etc
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1) Kppp.
2) X-isp.
3) wvdial. (Front ends: X-wvdial, kvdial, gtkdial).
4) Gppp.
5) Kinternet.
6) Rp3.
7) pppconfig + pon + poff.
8) Modem Lights.
9) Netcount. (console)
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FTN editor
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Golded
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1) Golded.
2) Golded+.
3) Msged.
4) Qded.
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FTN tosser
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FastEcho, hpt
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1) hpt.
2) CrashEcho.
3) Qecho.
4) CrashMail II.
5) Fidogate - gate to news.
6) ifmail - gate to news.
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FTN mailer
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SF-Mail, T-Mail
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1) ifcico.
2) qico.
3) Bforce.
4) Binkd.
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Remote management
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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
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1) VNC, Virtual Network Computing.
2) ssh.
3) Remote management is built-in in XFree86.
4) Remote management is built-in in KDE 3.1. ("desktop sharing").
5) Rdesktop Client.
6) rsh / rlogin.
7) telnet.
8) Gtelnet.
9) x0rfbserver.
10) KDE Universal Remote Desktop.
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Transmission of the files on modem
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HyperTerminal, Terminate, etc
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1) Minicom + lrzcz + Kermit.
2) Msterm.
3) Xtel.
4) uucp.
5) lrzsz + cu from uucp.
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Work with ssh
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Putty, Irlex, cygwin + ssh
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1) Kssh.
2) ssh / openssh.
3) GTelnet. (Telnet, SSH, Rlogin)
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Network monitoring tool
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Dumeter, Netmedic
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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.
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Network maintance tool
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HP OpenView, MS SMS, Tivoli
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1) HP OpenView agents. [Prop]
2) Big Brother.
3) Cheops.
4) Tkined.
5) OpenNMS.
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Protocols analysing, sniffing
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Sniffer Pro, EtherPeek (TokenPeek, AiroPeek), Windump, Ethereal, MS Network Monitor, Iris, Lan Explorer, NetSniffer, Snort, ...
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1) Ethereal.
2) Tcpdump.
3) Etherape.
4) Ntop.
5) ipxdump. (+ipxparse for parsing)
6) Snort.
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Security scanner
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ShadowScan, ISS, Retina, Internet Scanner
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1) Nessus.
2) Nmap.
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Routing
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MS RRAS
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1) iproute2 + iptables.
2) GateD. [Prop]
3) GNU Zebra.
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Utilites and libraries for Ethernet/IP testing
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lcrzo
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lcrzo
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IP-telephony
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Buddyphone [Prop], Cisco SoftPhone
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1) GNU Bayonne.
2) Openh323.
3) OpenPhone.
4) tkPhone.
5) NauPhone.
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Sharing data/files
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Windows shares
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1) NFS.
2) Samba.
3) Samba-TNG.
4) FTP.
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???
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Windows Domain, Active Directory
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1) Samba.
2)Ldap.
3) yp.
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Viewing Windows-network
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Network neighborhood
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1) Samba.
2) KDE Lan Browser, lisa
3) LinNeighborhood.
4) xSMBrowser.
5) Komba2.
6) Konqueror.
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ADSL
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1) RASPPPOE
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1) rp-pppoe.
2) Pptp client.
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Distributed computing
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All projects.
1) United Devices.
2) Seti @ Home.
3) Folding @ Home.
4) Genome @ Home.
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All projects.
1) Distributed.net.
2) Seti @ Home.
3) Folding @ Home.
4) Genome @ Home.
5) D2ol.
* Some versions for Linux run only in console mode.
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IPSEC protocol
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FreeSWAN.
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VRML viewer and editor
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???
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1) White Dune.
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Work with Ebay
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???
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1) Bidwatcher.
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2) Work with files.
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File manager in FAR and NC style
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FAR, Norton Commander, Disco Commander, Volcov Commander, etc
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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.
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File manager in Windows Commander style
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Total Commander (former Windows Commander)
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1) Krusader.
2) Kcommander.
3) FileRunner (TCL/TK).
4) Linux Commander.
5) LinCommander.
6) Rox, Rox-Filer.
7) Emelfm.
8) Midnight Commander.
9) Worker.
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File manager in Windows style
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Windows Explorer / Internet Explorer
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1) Konqueror.
2) Gnome-Commander.
3) Nautilus.
4) Endeavour Mark II.
5) XWC.
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Visual Shell
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???
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1) vshnu: the New Visual Shell.
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Quick viewing of local HTML documents
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1) Internet Explorer
2) Microsoft Document Explorer
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1) Dillo. (Russian language patches - here).
2) Konqueror.
3) Nautilus.
4) Lynx / Links.
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Viewing all operations with files
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Filemon
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Filemon.
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Work with UDF
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Roxio (former Adaptec) UDF Reader, Roxio Direct CD
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Linux-UDF.
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Work with multi session CD + recovering information from faulty multi session disks
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IsoBuster
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CDFS.
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Work with compressed files
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1) WinZip
2) WinRar
3) 7-Zip
4) WinACE
5) UltimateZip
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1) Ark (kdeutils).
2) Gnozip.
3) KArchiveur.
4) Gnochive.
5) FileRoller.
6) Unace.
7) LinZip.
8) TkZip.
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Console archivers
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arj, rar, zip, tar, gzip, bzip2, lha...
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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.
9) CAB Extract.
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Program for files and directories comparison
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1) Beyond Compare.
2) Araxis Merge.
3) WinMerge
4) Minimalist GNU For Windows (diff.exe)
5) Unison
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1) Mgdiff.
2) diff, patch.
3) Xemacs.
4) Xdelta. (make patches for binary files)
5) Meld.
6) Xxdiff.
7) Unison.
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Batch file renaming
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Plugins to TotalCommander, ...
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1) GPRename. (Perl-based)
2) Plugins for MC (???)
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3) Desktop / System software.
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Text editor
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Notepad, WordPad, TextPad, Vim, Xemacs, ...
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1) Kedit (KDE).
2) Gedit (Gnome).
3) Gnotepad.
4) Kate (KDE).
5) KWrite (KDE).
6) Nedit.
7) Vim.
8) Xemacs.
9) Xcoral.
10) Nvi.
11) Ozeditor.
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Console text editor
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1) Vim
2) Emacs
3) Editor from FAR, editor from DN, ...
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1) Vim.
2) Emacs.
3) Nano. (It's a free implementation of pico)
4) joe.
5) Fte.
6) Jed.
7) CoolEdit.
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Multi-purpose text and source code editor
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SciTE, UltraEdit, MultiEdit, Vim, Xemacs, ...
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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)
11) HT editor.
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Text editor with cyrillic encodings support
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Bred, Rpad32, Aditor, Vim, Xemacs
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1) Kate (KDE).
2) Nedit.
3) Fte (console).
4) Patched version of Midnight Commander.
5) Vim.
6) Xemacs.
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Viewing PostScript
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1) RoPS
2) GhostView
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1) GhostView.
2) Kghostview.
3) GV.
4) GGV.
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Viewing PDF
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1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller
2) GhostView
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1) Acrobat Reader. [Prop]
2) Xpdf.
3) GV.
4) GGV.
5) GhostView.
6) Kghostview.
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Creating PDF
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1) Adobe Acrobat Distiller
2) GhostView
3) Ghostscript
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1) Any Linux WYSIWYG program -> print to file -> ps2pdf. (Here's an article about this).
2) Adobe Acrobat Distiller. [Prop]
3) PStill. [Shareware]
4) PDFLatex.
5) Xfig.
6) Ghostscript.
7) Tex2Pdf.
8) Reportlab.
9) GV.
10) GGV.
11) GhostView.
12) Kghostview.
13) Panda PDF Generator.
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Crypto
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PGP, GnuPG + Windows Privacy Tools
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1) GnuPG (console) + GPA, KGpg, and other frontends.
2) PGP. [Prop]
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Disc volume encryption
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EFS (standard), PGP-Disk, BestCrypt, Private Disk Light
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1) Loop-aes.
2) CFS.
3) TCFS.
4) BestCrypt.
5) CryptFS.
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Task scheduler
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mstask, nnCron
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cron, at (standard, console). GUI: Kcron.
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Outlook scheduler
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Outlook scheduler
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1) KOrganizer.
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Virtual CD
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VirtualDrive, VirtualCD, Daemon Tools, ...
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1) Virtual CD Kernel Modul.
2) "cp /dev/cdrom mycd.iso" + "mount -o loop mycd.iso /mnt/cdrom/".
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Text recognition (OCR)
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Recognita, FineReader
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1) ClaraOcr.
2) Gocr.
3) Kooka.
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Translators (cyrillic)
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Promt, Socrat
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Ksocrat (???)
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Eng-rus dictionaries (cyrillic)
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1) ABBYY Lingvo
2) Socrat
3) JaLingvo
4) phpMyLingvo
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1) Mueller.
2) Ksocrat.
3) JaLingvo.
4) phpMyLingvo.
5) dict+Kdict.
6) DictX.
7) Groan.
8) Mova.
9) Slowo.
10) Stardict.
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Work with scanner
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Programs on CD with scanner, VueScan
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1) Xsane.
2) Kooka.
3) Xvscan. [Prop]
4) VueScan. [Prop]
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Antivirus
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AVG AntiVirus, NAV, Dr. Web, TrendMicro, F-Prot, Kaspersky, ...
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1) Dr. Web. [Prop]
2) Trend ServerProtect. [Prop]
3) RAV Antivirus. [Prop] (Bought by Microsoft?)
4) OpenAntivirus + AMaViS / VirusHammer.
5) F-Prot. [Prop]
6) Sophie / Trophie.
7) Clam Antivirus.
8) Kaspersky. [Prop]
9) YAVR.
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System configuration
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Control Panel, Msconfig, RegEdit, WinBoost, TweakXP, Customizer XP, X-Setup, PowerToys, Config NT, ...
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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 and yast2 (SuSE).
9) sysinstall (FreeBSD).
10) /dev/hands :).
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Boot managers
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System Commander, PowerQuest Boot Magic, GAG, ...
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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.
10) GAG.
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Hard disk partitions manager
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1) PowerQuest Partition Magic [Prop]
2) Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop]
3) Paragon Partition Manager [Prop]
4) Partition Commander [Prop]
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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)
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LVM + soft-RAID + parted + ...
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EVMS.
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Backup software
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ntbackup (standard), Legato Networker [Prop]
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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)
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Making images of disk partitions
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1) DriveImage
2) Ghostpe
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1) PartitionImage (GUI - PartGUI).
2) dd (console, standard).
3) Mondo Rescue.
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Machine mirroring over network
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1) ImageCast
2) Norton Ghost
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1) UDP Cast.
2) Techteam's UDP Cast Disks.
3) Ghost for Unix (g4u).
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Task manager
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TaskMan (standard), TaskInfo, ProcessExplorer NT.
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1) top (console, standard).
2) Gtop, Ktop.
3) Ksysguard.
4) "ps aux|more", "kill <pid>"
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Automatic switch between English and Russian when you type
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Punto Switcher, Keyboard Ninja, Snoop
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No analogs :(.
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Mouse gestures
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Sensiva
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1) Kgesture.
2) wayV.
3) Optimoz.
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TV program
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???
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Home Portal.
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Text to speech
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MS text to speech
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1) KDE Voice Plugins.
2) Festival.
3) Emacspeak.
4) VoiceText.
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Speech recognition
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ViaVoice, DragonNaturally Speaking
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Yes, there are no usable speech recognition packages. But:
1) Sphinx.
2) ViaVoice. (almost dead...)
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Stream text processing
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1) Minimalist GNU For Windows (sed.exe)
2) perl
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1) sed, awk.
2) perl.
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PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view
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TreePad [Prop], Leo, CueCards
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1) TreePad Lite. [Prop]
2) Yank.
3) TreeLine.
4) Gjots.
5) Leo.
6) Hnb - hierarchical notebook.
7) TuxCards.
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Program for quick switching between resolutions and frequencies
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Integrated with system, comes on CD with video card
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1) Multires.
2) Ctrl+Alt+"-", Ctrl+Alt+"+".
3) Fbset. (when using framebuffer)
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Search and replace text in files
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1) Integrated with system
2) Indexing service
3) HTMLChanger
4) Any file manager
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1) find (console, standard).
2) slocate (console, standard).
GUI:
1) Gsearchtool.
2) Kfind.
3) Any file manager
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Local search engine with SGBD for indexing
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1) Indexing service (???)
2) mnoGoSearch. [prop for Windows]
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1) mnoGoSearch.
2) ASPSeek.
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System monitoring
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System monitor (built-in)
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1) top (console, standard).
2) Gkrellm.
3) Ksysguard.
4) Survivor.
5) "Hot-babe". (If you can be shocked by nudity, don't use it :).
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Program for logs viewing
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Event Viewer (built-in)
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1) Xlogmaster.
2) Analog.
3) Fwlogview. (firewall)
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Data Recovery Tools
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R-Studio (supports Linux partitions)
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1) e2undel.
2) myrescue.
3) TestDisk.
4) unrm.
5) Channel 16.
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Text files encoder with automatic detection of character set
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???
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1) Enca.
2) Jconv.
3) Xcode. (cyrillic)
4) Asrecod. (cyrillic)
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Alarm clock
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MindIt!
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1) KAlarm.
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Work with Palm
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Palm Desktop
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1) Kpilot.
2) Jpilot.
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Allows to carry on Palm .html files
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iSilo
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1) iSilo.
2) Plucker.
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