 Do You Want To Find A Linux Equivalent To A Windows Application? |
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 Sep 22 2007, 11:20 AM
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Premium Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 286 Joined: 17-June 07 Member No.: 22,702  |
Database of popular Windows apps and their Linux equivalents.
http://www.linuxalt.com/ _________________________________ http://dserban01.googlepages.com/linkedin....abap.basis.html This post has been edited by dserban: Jun 3 2008, 07:22 PM |
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Sep 27 2007, 06:58 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ]  Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 27-September 07 Member No.: 25,159 |
there are programmas so you can run windows programmas in linux
but it works not allways good and nice but the most programes work fine |
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Sep 29 2007, 10:36 AM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 29-September 07 Member No.: 25,211 |
QUOTE(robert2411 @ Sep 27 2007, 06:58 PM)  there are programmas so you can run windows programmas in linux but it works not allways good and nice but the most programes work fine Do you mean wine? It seems wine works with most stand-alone command line executables, but works with GUI programs hardly. |
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Sep 29 2007, 07:26 PM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,780 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
WINE works with most Windows program dating back to 1998. More recent ones are harder to have compatibility of since the newer Windows API has changed a lot since and the community is having a really hard time catching up.
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Sep 30 2007, 12:41 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 219 Joined: 13-February 07 Member No.: 20,371 |
No, I think what robert2411 was trying to say was that not all of the programs on the list are very good programs, but that many of the programs will work just fine.
It was just that the post was not in complete English sentences so it was somewhat hard to understand... Anyway, that looks like a nice resource, thanks for the link! |
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Sep 30 2007, 12:50 AM
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Oh come on Mrs. B! Group: Members Posts: 648 Joined: 6-June 07 From: Tasmania, Australia Member No.: 22,422 |
thats a nice list of alternatives, although my favourite software company ever is Adobe and unfortunately all their stuff costs alot and they only make it for Windows and Mac.
one thing ive always wondered about WINE and never bothered looking for the answer is what does it do about the registry? when a program puts something in the registry, where does it go? does it have a little registry thing, lol. some of the things in that list (the windows ones) ive never even heard of yet ive heard of the linux equivelant for them. i like it how expensive windows programs have free windows alternatives, although they may not be quite as good. |
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Nov 1 2007, 08:50 PM
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Member - Active Contributor Group: Members Posts: 82 Joined: 30-October 07 From: Wales Member No.: 25,826 |
Some Linux equivalents are:
MS Office - OpenOffice Virtual PC - Wine Internet Explorer - Firefox Windows Media Player - Audacity Windows Media Center - LinuxMCE Nero Burning ROM - Nero for Linux MS Outlook - Evolution WinRAR/WinZip - P7Zip CMD/Command Prompt - Terminal Monopoly - Atlantic (If Spelling Is Okay) and many more. If you want more, go to http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_...indows_software (my first link!) xxxx-jozh-xxxx |
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Nov 2 2007, 12:30 AM
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Colonel Panic Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,780 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
QUOTE(Sten @ Sep 29 2007, 08:50 PM) thats a nice list of alternatives, although my favourite software company ever is Adobe and unfortunately all their stuff costs alot and they only make it for Windows and Mac. one thing ive always wondered about WINE and never bothered looking for the answer is what does it do about the registry? when a program puts something in the registry, where does it go? does it have a little registry thing, lol. some of the things in that list (the windows ones) ive never even heard of yet ive heard of the linux equivelant for them. i like it how expensive windows programs have free windows alternatives, although they may not be quite as good. It's stored in the system.reg file in your WINE bottle. xboxrulz |
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Nov 3 2007, 06:16 AM
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Member [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 42 Joined: 22-August 07 From: Horseheads, NY Member No.: 24,284 |
This is a great resource but I don't think users of Adobe products will find that the Linux alternatives measure up.
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Dec 11 2007, 02:03 AM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 11-December 07 Member No.: 26,810 |
I believe this site is a bit more comprehensive:
http://linuxappfinder.com/ Seriously, with developers actively producing ports of programs you used to only find on MS's OS, Linux on the desktop is really coming soon. Although many say that kind of prediction's been done to death before, it's only really now with the surge of Ubuntu, gOS and the other user-friendly distros that it's finally coming to light. |
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