Open source software (OSS) equivalents:
Someone at a recent meeting stated something like this, "For every proprietary program
there is an open source alternative that is equivalent". Whether you agree with him or not,
please look at this list. If you disagree with him then we ask you to challenge us to come
up with an OSS equivalent.
Proprietary
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Open Source
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 Gaby
Small personal database using
GTK+.
 Knoda
Access
Tables, queries, forms, reports.
ODBC/MySQL support.
 MySql
light and powerful.
 Novinyl
Flatfile KDE casual database.
 PostgreSQL
 Qddb
Casual database with report
generator
 ReKall
Not quite Open Source but an
effective database front end
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Adaptec Toast
 ECLiPt Roaster
 xcdroast
Will be shown at CHLUG
September 10 meeting.
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Adobe Illustrator
 Karbon
KIllustrator
 The GIMP
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Adobe Photoshop
 THE GIMP
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Altova XMLSpy
Arabesque (NetManage) Ecco Pro
Araxis Merge(http://araxis.com)
 XMLSpy
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seems to be the new name for
 araxis
 WinMerge
Pretty good file comparing tool
but definitely needs improvement
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DocuMagix PaperMaster
 not OSS but SOS : I am a fan of
Papermaster and Mozilla
i am only a user
! help
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DVD Viewer (WinDVD, PowerDVD,
Windows Media Player, Realplayer)
 Mplayer
 Xine
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ERP
 OpenMFG
Other ERP programs run in
UNIX, this one is specifically opensource
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ERWin
 Agata Report
Will produces schema
diagrams as well as reports and graphs from many
databases
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Etherman
Fineprint 2000
 Etherape
 Ethereal
network analyzer, open source
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GIF
 MNG
 PNG
Granada Primary Branch
(educational)
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Groove
Multi-image PNG
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Homesite HTML Editor
 Bluefish
Excellent HTML editor for Linux
 Quanta Plus
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HP OpenView
Lotus Improv
 Cheops
 Nagios
Network/systems monitoring
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M$ Visual Studio
 Anjuta
Very good gui based development
environment
 Eclipse
IBM ~$40M investment now open
source
 GLADE
A nice WYSIWYG GUI builder that
supports just about every programming language
 GNU Compiler Collection
Forget
equivalent, try superior
 GNU Project Debugger
Conditional
Breakpoints, Macros, Run-time Data Setting, Core
Analysis, etc.
 GNUEmacs
Syntax Highlighting,
Keyboard Macros, Debugger, Error Stepping, etc.
 XEmacs, KDevelop
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia Flash
Microsoft Active Directory
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 Gnumeric
Microsoft Excel
Now at v1.0, it is 99%
compatible with Excel and can import & export .xls
files
 OpenOffice, StarOffice
Btw,
Openoffice/Staroffice also import/export to
microsoft office programs
 OpenOffice, Staroffice
Microsoft FrontPage
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 galeon
People seem to like it.
 Konqueror
Like IE, it displays pages that
Navigator fails to display.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
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mozilla
Netscape Navigator
Opera
skipstone
yet another gecko based
browser
 w3m
text based browser with tables,
frames, mouse support and inline images
Microsoft Internet Information
Services (server)
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 Apache
Apache web server
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Microsoft Money / Quicken
 GNUCash
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Microsoft NetMeeting / Messenger
Microsoft Notepad
 GnomeMeeting
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Emacs
gedit
gnotepad+
JEdit
Starts like NotePad (basic), plug-ins
add functionality
 joe
 KWrite
 NoteTab Light
Notepad on steroids!
Fantastic program
 vi
the granddaddy of the all
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Microsoft Office
Microsoft OneNote
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GNOME Office
KOffice
Integrated office suite for KDE
OpenOffice
StarOffice
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Microsoft Outlook
 Ximian Evolution
plugin with Exchange
2000 or greater will run calendaring and meeting
invitation
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Microsoft Outlook Express
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kmail
sylpheed
Thunderbird
Ximian Evolution
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Microsoft Powerpoint
 OpenOffice
 StarOffice
Btw, Openoffice/Staroffice also
import/export to Microsoft Office programs
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Microsoft Project
 Mr Project
 SourceForge
project management,
collaboration, resource sharing, scheduling
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Microsoft SharePoint
 Mimerdesk
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Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Word
 Dia
 Kivio
 xfig
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Flowchart and diagram tool
 Abiword
 OpenOffice
The completely free port and
further evaluation of staroffice
 Star Office
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Norton Ghost
 dd
 Mondo
popular Ghost replacement
 Partition Image
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PGP
plp
 GnuPP
 GPG
GNU, open source
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Quark Xpress
 Scribus
Scribus is a Layout program for
Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker™,
QuarkXPr
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Quicken Quickbooks
 gnucash
 Gnumeric
Accepts QIF files.
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 Arch
Rational (IBM) ClearCase
De-centralized repositories, advanced
merging/branching, renames.
 CVS
Dominant open-source SCM;
emerged from local-only RCS system.
 OpenCM
File renames, branch ACLs,
crypto auth, end-to-end integrity controls, file ACLs
 PRCS2
Handles files and directories as an
entity, preserving coherent vers. Early dev.
 Stellation
Versioning, lightweight
branching. Back-ends to SQL dbs. Atomic
changesets.
 Subversion
Proper superset of CVS
feature set, candidate superior replacement.
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 freeS/WAN
Has a webmin module too!
 rdesktop
works with MS terminal services
hosts
Symantec pcAnywhere
 VNC - Virtual Network Computing
A
display system which allows you to view and
control a remote PC's desktop.
 XFree86
Remote display via LBX works
better than pcAnywhere. Can be tunnelled over
ssh.
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Syntrillium Cool Edit Pro
 GLAME
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TurboTax
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Winzip
 7-zip
GPL license
 ARK
 bzip2 + tar
offerst best compression on
the market
 gzip
GNU, open source
 PKZIP