Equivalents Table: Desktop

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Text editor
  1. Notepad
  2. WordPad
  3. TextPad
  4. Vim
  5. Xemacs
  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.
Console text editor
  1. Vim
  2. Emacs
  3. Editor from FAR, editor from DN, ...
  1. Vim.
  2. Emacs.
  3. Nano. (It's a free implementation of pico)
  4. joe.
  5. Fte.
  6. Jed.
  7. CoolEdit.
Multi-purpose text and source code editor
  1. SciTE
  2. UltraEdit
  3. MultiEdit
  4. Vim
  5. Xemacs
  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.|-
Viewing PostScript
  1. RoPS
  2. GhostView
  1. GhostView.
  2. Kghostview.
  3. GV.
  4. GGV.
Viewing PDF
  1. Adobe Acrobat Distiller
  2. GhostView
  1. Acrobat Reader. [Prop]
  2. Xpdf.
  3. GV.
  4. GGV.
  5. GhostView.
  6. Kghostview.
Creating PDF
  1. Adobe Acrobat Distiller
  2. GhostView
  3. Ghostscript
  1. Any Linux WYSIWYG program.
  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.
Crypto
  1. PGP
  2. GnuPG + Windows Privacy Tools
  1. GnuPG (console) + GPA
  2. KGpg
  3. other frontends.
  4. PGP. [Prop]
Disc volume encryption
  1. EFS (standard)
  2. PGP-Disk
  3. BestCrypt
  4. Private Disk Light
  1. Loop-aes.
  2. CFS.
  3. TCFS.
  4. BestCrypt.
  5. CryptFS.
Task scheduler
  1. mstask
  2. nnCron
  1. cron
  2. at
  3. Kcron.
Outlook scheduler
  1. Outlook scheduler
  1. KOrganizer.
Virtual CD
  1. VirtualDrive
  2. VirtualCD
  3. Daemon Tools
  1. CDemu Kernel Module.
  2. "cp /dev/cdrom mycd.iso" + "mount -o loop mycd.iso /mnt/cdrom/".
Text recognition (OCR)
  1. Recognita
  2. FineReader
  1. ClaraOcr.
  2. Gocr.
  3. Kooka.
Work with scanner
  1. Programs on CD with scanner
  2. VueScan
  1. Xsane.
  2. Kooka.
  3. Xvscan. [Prop]
  4. VueScan. [Prop]
Antivirus
  1. AVG AntiVirus
  2. NAV
  3. Dr. Web
  4. TrendMicro
  5. F-Prot
  6. Kaspersky
  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.
System configuration
  1. Control Panel
  2. Msconfig
  3. RegEdit
  4. WinBoost
  5. TweakXP
  6. Customizer XP
  7. X-Setup
  8. PowerToys
  9. Config NT
  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 :).
Boot managers
  1. System Commander
  2. PowerQuest Boot Magic
  3. GAG
  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.
Hard disk partitions manager
  1. Norton Partition Magic [Prop]
  2. Acronis PartitionExpert [Prop]
  3. Paragon Partition Manager [Prop]
  4. Partition Commander [Prop]
  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)

Task manager
  1. TaskMan
  2. TaskInfo
  3. ProcessExplorer NT
  1. top
  2. Gtop, Ktop.
  3. Ksysguard.
  4. "ps aux|more", "kill <pid>"
Mouse gestures
  1. Sensiva
  2. Strokeit
  1. Kgesture.
  2. wayV.
  3. Optimoz.
Text to speech
  1. MS text to speech
  1. KDE Voice Plugins.
  2. Festival.
  3. Emacspeak.
  4. VoiceText.
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