list of alternative software

Audio

Audio Player

Winamp; Windows Media Player

* Audacious* amaroK* BMPx* Banshee* Jinzora* Rhythmbox* Mesk* XMMS* Zinf* Exaile!


Audio Editor

SoundForge; Adobe Audition
* Audacity * LMMS* Rosegarden * Sweep* Glume* ReZound * Wired * Ardour

Stream Browser * Streamtuner * last.fm

CD Ripper
* Goobox * Rubyripper * Arson * GRip * Sound Juicer


Video

Video Player

BSplayer; Windows Media Player; VLC
* Xine * MPlayer * Kaffeine * VLC * Totem

Video Editor

Adobe Premiere
* Kino * Cinelerra * Jahshaka * LiVES * Diva * Avidemux * Iriverter


DVD Ripper
* AcidRip * dvd::rip * Handbrake * k9copy

Screen Capture
* Istanbul * Xvidcap


Graphics & Design

Image viewer
* digiKam * gThumb * Gwenview * XnView * GQview
* Goby* Quick Image Viewer

Image organizer

Picasa
* F-Spot


Image editor

Adobe Photoshop

* GIMP * Krita * Tux Paint * mtPaint * XPaint


Vectorgraphics editor

CorelDraw
* Inkscape * Synfig

3D Modeler

3D Max; Maya
* Blender3D * Wings 3D* Equinox-3D * Misfit Model 3D * Sharp 3D


Computer Aided Design

AutoCAD; MathCAD
* qCAD * BRL-CAD * gCAD3D * FreeCAD

Internet & Network

Internet Browser

Internet Explorer
* Firefox aka Iceweasel* Opera * SeaMonkey * Konqueror * Galeon* Dillo * Lynx - Text browser for the World Wide Web


E-mail

Outlook Express, Outlook
* Evolution * Thunderbird * KMail


Usenet/Newsreader

Outlook Express, Forte Agent
* Pan

RSS Feed Reader

* Liferea * aKregator * Straw * BottomFeeder * RSSOwl

FTP Clent

FileZilla * gFTP

Instant messenger

AIM; ICQ; MSN; Yahoo!; Jabber

* Pidgin (Formerly GAIM) * Kopete * BitlBee * aMSN * GYachI - enables Yahoo! webcam

Internet Relay Chat

mIRC

* XChat * Irssi * BitchX * Konversation * KVirc Direct Connect DC++

* Valknut * Linux DC++



Torrents

µTorrent, BitComet

* Deluge * BitTornado * aria2* Azureus* Transmission* KTorrent* Gnome rrent
* GnomeBT


P2P

eMule, LimeWire

* aMule * LimeWire* GTK-Gnutella


VoIP

Skype

* Skype* Gizmo* Ekiga* Wengo


Graphical User Interface

Desktop Environment

Explorer, Aston, GeoShell

* KDE* Gnome* Xfce* Enlightenment* ROX* XPde


Window Manager

Explorer, WindowsBlind, bb4win

* FluxBox* Waimea* OpenBox* IceWM* Integrity* FVWM* AfterStep* Matchbox - for


Development

Web

Dreamweaver

* Aptana* Nvu* Bluefish* cssed - CSS Editor* Quanta Plus* Screem* KompoZer


IDE

MS Visual studio

* KDevelop * NetBeans* Anjuta - Anjuta is a versatile IDE for C and C++, written for GTK/GNOME
* Eclipse - An extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle* Eric - Python IDE* SPE - Stani's Python Editor


Education

* Stellarium - Virtual Palanetarium* The KDE Edutainment Project* FreeMind - Mind Mapping* Maxima - Mathematica and Maple equivalent


Games

only free or opensource games listed


Office

Office Suite

MS Office

* OpenOffice.org * KOffice* GNOME Office* Siag Office


Calendar

Ms Outlook

* Evolution* Mozilla Sunbird* Mozilla Calendar Extension for Thunderbird and Firefox


Desktop Publishing

Microsoft Publisher

* Scribus

Diagram Creation

Microsoft Visio

* Dia* Kivio (part of KOffice)* Umbrello UML* Visual Paradigm for UML (Community edition)* ArgoUML* Graphviz


System tools

File managers

Total Commander; FAR

* Krusader* GNU Midnight Commander* GNOME Commander* vifm


Windows Explorer

* Konqueror* Nautilus* Evidence* ROX-Filer* Thunar* Dolphin


CD Burners

Nero

* K3B* Grab&Burn* AcetoneISO* GnomeBaker* NeroLINUX* Brasero


Partition Managers

Partition Magic

* Gparted* QtParted


GUI Program installers

none

* Synaptic* Yumex* Kyum


Commercial Applications

* Cedega - Can help play Windows games on Linux* CrossOver Office - Run Windows software on Linux* AC3D - 3D modeling software


Commercial Games

* Tux Games - The online store for Linux Games


Other

* KBPublisher - knowledge base software* GRAMPS - Genealogy database recording software