Win32 Applications And Linux Equivalents?

Compaqed asks: "I have gotten approval from my company that I'll be allowed to install Red Hat on my work computer, and they gave me a laptop to sit beside it, for all the 'Windows Only Applications'. Now I know that there is StarOffice which will supplement for MS Office nicely. Is there a place that lists all programs that list Windows applications and their Open Source equivalents?" It would be nice if there was a fairly well-updated site that does this kind of thing. It would be an invaluable site for your average New Linux User.

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Extending Win32

[Anonymous Coward]

For those who must or choose to use Win32, here
are some URLs with tool/utils to extend the OS.

GNU Win32 related projects
http://www.nanotech.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu- win32/

A Linux-like Windows 95/98/NT
http://www.datacomm.ch/mwoog/software/linux_wind ows.htm

GNU utilities for Win32
http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUti ls.html

cheers

Re:Extending Win32

[Baron of Greymatter]

Don't forget the Cygwin tools from Cygnus/Red Hat! They do work on Win9x as well as NT.

hmm...

[crovax]

1. Outlook - Pine
2. NotePad - Vi
3. Internet Explorer - Netscape, Opera
4. M$ Office - Star Office
5. all the service packs - free kernel updates
6. M$-DOS - BASH
What type of applications are you using, and/or looking for?


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Re:hmm...

[Stonehead]

VI/Emacs is great, but NEdit is more suitable for Notepad users.
Making a list of comparable applications is both trivial and questionable. The ideal way of learning to use Linux is having a friend nearby to ask questions to. You can't find a better knowledge base than a user community.
Last point: applications should not tend to emulate Windows counterparts, but go for quality and second ease to use.

Linux apps

[Bazman]

Firstly, you mention Star Office and then talk about Open Source apps. Star Office isnt open source and probably wont be. I'll assume you mean apps that will work under Linux, or perhaps even free apps in terms of cost.

Anyway, what you need to do is go to www.freshmeat.net and look at all the lovely linux apps there. You will be able to draw up your own list of windows equivalents in no time!

photoshop - gimp
explorer - gmc
wsftp - gftp

etc.

Baz

Re:Linux apps

[randombit]

Firstly, you mention Star Office and then talk about Open Source apps. Star Office isnt open source and probably wont be. I'll assume you mean apps that will work under Linux, or perhaps even free apps in terms of cost.

LaTeX + editor of choice == really nice looking documents, print or on screen. Or you can use one of the graphical front ends (Klyx or something like that?).

assuming a GNOME desktop...

[ywwg]

notepad - gedit (with GNOME)
word - wordperfect 8 (free version) (linux.corel.com)
excel - gnumeric (with GNOME)
wsftp - gftp (gftp.seul.org)
photoshop - gimp (with GNOME)
free agent (news) - pan (with GNOME)
winamp - xmms (www.xmms.org)
visio - dia (with GNOME)
freecell - freecell (with GNOME)
minesweeper too!
mirc - xchat (with GNOME)
napster - gnapster (with GNOME)
eudora - balsa (http://www.newton.cx/balsa/)
netscape (shockwave flash is available)

any more obvious ones I missed?

All of these programs are top-notch in quality, although some are less finished than others.

Re:assuming a GNOME desktop...

[afc]

Visual Studio - kdevelop (works fairly well with GNOME) or XEmacs/GNU Emacs (though they require quite a bit of learning, though)
gnomba - for browsing SMB shared resources.
ICQ - gnomeICU (pretty simple, but pretty effective and compatible)

And don't forget to check the source.

M$ vs Linux Apps

[Anonymous Coward]

Console Programs
M$-DOS Edit == aee, pico, or vi
Command.com == bash, tcsh, ash, ksh or zsh
DOS-Shell (from DOS 4 & 5) == Midnight Commander

GUI Programs
Notepad == NEdit, GNotepad, GEdit, or KEdit
Solitaire == KPat
WS-FTP == gFTP
Windows Explorer == X WinCommander or KFM
Dial-up Networking == KPPP
Excel == GNUmeric or SIAG
WordPad == Pathetic Writer (what a name! :-P)
WinAmp == xmms
DOS Window == xterm or rxvt
Turbo C == Emacs + gcc

Plus, programs that are available for both:
Netscape, RealPlayer, WordPerfect, StarOffice, Tcl/Tk, Perl, Python, XBasic (although some work better than others)

So you don't really lose a lot when migrating from Windows to Linux. In fact, you gain quite a bit in overall reliability even though some Linux apps could be improved (such as RealPlayer).

Re:M$ vs Linux Apps

[The Madpostal Worker]

actually, its more like
trubo c = xwpe(or wpe) + gcc
wpe is a complete rip of the turbo interface.
not that its a bad thing(nothing compares to vi)


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A basic one...

[Otter]

win = startx

Re:A basic one...

[afc]

I honestly hope you're trying to be humorous...

StarOffice is great but...

[afc]

If you can abide with simpler alternatives, try Abi Word and Gnumeric.

Abi Word does not provide all the features you may expect from a word processor, but is quite useful IMHO. Gnumeric is a fairly advanced replacement for Excel and it keeps improving at an amazing pace. Give'em a try.

HelixCode

[macbert]

I've been trying to replace my mac with a linuxbox for several months now and Helixcode.com is the best begining to doing this. Not only does it come with a great set of software and a vastly enhansed set of features over the standard Gnome Desktop they are also creating the "killer email client" for Gnome called Evolution. This isn't avaiable yet and I do strongly suggest trying Balsa fro the time being. I love the automated updates and the smooth installer program. Here's my list of programs to start with Gimp (images) Abiword (wordprocessor) gedit (text) gnumeric (spreadsheet) navigator (web) balsa (email) bluefish (html) amaya (web layout) gftp (ftp) Also WINE is a wonderfull program for running the "nessary windows" programs. Their application compatability database is wonderfull for finding what can and will work. The primary reason I still use a mac for my "Production Computer" is Macromedia's Dreamweaver 3 and it's inability to run through WINE.
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Re:HelixCode

[MostlyHarmless]

FYI, HelixCode.Com offers NO, I repeat NO feature enhancements of the standard GNOME desktop. What they have done is taken over the building of GNOME rpms and added a few apps, such as Helix Update. You're probably confusing Helix GNOME with GNOME 1.0. Helix GNOME is based on GNOME 1.2, but you can also compile 1.2 yourself without the helix desktops. So what Helix is doing rocks, but I'm just making sure everyone understands that the new features in GNOME are due to the 1.2 release, not due to HELIX add-ins.

Re:HelixCode

[Sentry21]

As I understand it, the GNOME project was taken over by HelixCode, thusly Gnome == HelixCode. (My source is 'man gnome' but I may remember wrongly)

~Sentry21~

visio - SodiPodi (with GNOME)

[Booker]

sodipodi is here

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StarOffice != MSOffice

[david duncan scott]

Not that I don't like StarOffice, but (unless it's hidden away in there someplace I haven't found it) there's no equivalent to Access, and I have to say that's a major issue for a lot of people.

Strikingly, I notice that the apps being mentioned don't seem to include any other desktop RDBMS either. SQL servers are great at one end of things, and sorting lines in a spreadsheet at the other, but there must be something like Access (or like Approach, if you prefer) for Linux.

Err...

[Booker]

oh wait. That was dia. Never mind.

Sodipodi is cool too though. :)

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WINE

[nemoc]

If you *have* to run some 'win32' only apps (and I'm assuming you have a few, because you get a notebook), take a look at wine (http:\\www.winehq.com). They've come a long way! they can even support native windows DLL's which does wonders for their compatibility, and it support's my only 'win32 only' app. (starcraft).
if it works out for you, you even get to take your notebook home =)

Outlook != Pine

[provolt]

I am a huge fan of pine, but it certainly is not a replacement for Outlook, especially in a business setting. Just simply reading e-mail, it's fine, but dealing with attachments is cumbersom in pine as compared to outlook. (It's not hard, but drag and drop takes a lot less time.)

Outlook makes my job alot easier every day. It does have problems with the VB scripts that piss everyone off, but those are not hard to avoid. Pine was great in the days of text only internet, but it does not fit well with today's workplace or home environment. Trying to make it suit that role is like saying "use lynx instead of Netscape/IE/Opera." It just doesn't work

provolt

Wine

[rips]

While its not as good as running a native X program, Wine will run quite a few windows programs natively. They also have a database on their site (www.winehq.com) dedicated to reporting which windows programs will run and how well. I suggest you check it out for those programs you can't get native equivilents for.

Re:Other software...?

[Anonymous Coward]

The freshmeat appindex is a good place to look for programs.

cdrwin - x-cd-roast [freshmeat]
ipchains GUI - GFCC [freshmeat]
network neighbourhood - xsmbrowser
ftp clients - [freshmeat]

Other software!?

[deepdown]

I was wondering if there were linux equivalents for the following win32 types of software.

CDrwin, Nice programm to burn bin/cue images.
A graphical firewall interface for ipchains.
Network Neighbourhood, so i can see all workgroups.
Flashfxp.

some others

[def]

Some others that haven't been mentioned:

• M$ Money / Quicken: gnucash
• ICQ: (your choice of many clients: see freshmeat)
• AIM: (see ICQ ;)
• Civilization (okay, so this isn't exactly an "office application"): freeciv

Re:WINE and Win4Lin

[Hoyt]

You should check out Win4Lin at www.trelos.com. It's really Merge (from SCO) for Linux. A bitch to install, but it works great and runs win32 apps as fast or faster than Windows. No sound support yet, though. I use it to access MS OE since I haven't found a Linux mail client I like as well (I'm at this moment running OE in MS Windows in a window on my Mandrake 7.0/GNOME desktop.)