Interoperability: Software Equivalents Table

Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"

$Revision: 11 $

$Date: 2007-01-26 $

Here, I will try to build a software equivalents table of products available for Microsoft Windows XP and openSUSE platforms, but not necessarily comes bundled with those platforms. It is intended for Windows users that want to replace their lovely software with a Linux equivalent.

Here, I will not try to make a full review of listed software, neither give a relative score, so I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to learn the software, and get personal feelings of each of the applications in the table below:

Type                    Windows XP              openSUSE

Standard Windows applications:
File Manager            Windows Explorer        KDE Konqueror
Web Browser             Internet Explorer       Mozilla FireFox       
Text Editor             Notepad                 KDE Kate
Painter                 Paint                   KDE KolourPaint
Command-Line prompt     cmd                     KDE Konsole
MultiMedia Player       Windows Media Player    KDE Kaffeine
Calculator              Calc                    KDE Kcalc

Standard Office applications:
Office Suite            Office-2003             OpenOffice
Document                Office-Word-2003        OpenOffice Writer
Spreadsheet             Office-Excel-2003       OpenOffice Calc
Presentation            Office-PowerPoint-2003  OpenOffice Impress
Database                Office-Access-2003      OpenOffice Base
E-mail                  Office-Outlook-2003     Mozilla Thunderbird
Calendar                Office-Outlook-2003     KDE KOrganizer

Extended Windows applications:
Image Viewer            ACDSee                  KDE Gwenview          
Archiving               WinZip                  KDE Ark
WinAmp-style Player     WinAmp                  XMMS
CD Burning              Nero                    KDE K3b
CD Cover Design         Nero Cover Design       KDE Kover
FTP Client              WS FTP Pro, Filezilla   KDE Konqueror
SMB Client              Windows Explorer        KDE Konqueror
Hex Editor              Visual Studio           KDE KHexEdit
Professional Painter    Photoshop               GIMP                  
Twin-Panel File Manager Norton Commander        KDE Krusader
PC Emulator             Virtual PC              VirtualBox
Development Environment Visual Studio           KDE KDevelop
HTML WYSIWYG Editor     Dreamweaver             Nvu
Remote Access           Remote Desktop          FreeNX
IRC Client              mIRC                    KDE Konversation
Download Manager        Download Accelerator    KDE KGet

Standard Windows internal components:
Control Center          Control Panel           SUSE Yast
Display Manager         Windows Login           KDE KDM
Window Manager          XP Window Manager       KDE kwin
Package Manager         Add/Remove Programs     RPM, Yast, klik
Task Manager            Task Manager            KDE kSysGuard
Boot Loader             NTLDR                   GRUB
Firewall                Windows Firewall        SUSE Firewall

Extended Windows internal components:
Desktop Manager         nVidia workspaces       KDE pager

Standard Windows Server 2003 components:
User Authentication     Active Directory        LDAP (?)
HTTP Web Server         IIS                     Apache
FTP Server              IIS                     vsftpd
Remote Access           Terminal Services       FreeNX
Telnet Server           MS Telnet Server        telnet-server
SMB File Sharing        Windows File Sharing    samba
DNS Server              DNS Server              yast2-dns-server
DHCP Server             DHCP Server             dhcp-server

Extended Windows Server 2003 components:
SQL Database Server     SQL Server              mysql
e-mail                  Exchange                sendmail (?)
TFTP Server             Solarwinds TFTP         Yast TFTP

Specials without equivalents:
3D Benchmarks           3D Mark 2000...06       -
3D Performance Monitor  Fraps                   -
3D Desktop              -                       Looking Glass 3D
Application Security    -                       AppArmor

Type                    Windows XP              openSUSE

Comparison of both OSes rools: both Open-Source and proprietary applications are allowed, preference given to Microsoft applications on Windows and to Open-Source applications with graphical user interface (GUI) on Linux.

About Interoperability

Interoperability is a new series of my documentation-set. It describes the working relationships between different Operating Systems, and helps build a healthy openSUSE integration into existing Windows environments.

For More Information

There are several resources, that are spread across the Internet. One of them is: http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html.