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One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often don't know too much about Windows.
Networking:
| Description | Windows | GNU/Linux |
| Web Browser | Internet Explorer, Netscape / Mozilla, Firefox |
Netscape / Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror, Firefox, Nautilus, Links, Lynx |
| Email client | Outlook Express, Netscape / Mozilla, Thunderbird, The Bat. |
Evolution, Netscape / Mozilla/Thunderbird, Kmail, Gnus, Gnumail. |
| News Reader | Agent [Prop], Free Agent, Xnews, Outlook, Netscape / Mozilla, Opera [Prop].
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Knode, NewsReader,Netscape / Mozilla, Opera [Prop], Mutt.
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| Sites downloading | Teleport Pro, Httrack, Wget. |
Httrack, Wget (console, standard). GUI: Kmago, QTget, Xget, Downloader for X, XSiteCopy, Khttrack. |
| FTP clients | CuteFTP, WSFTP, SmartFTP, FileZilla, ftp.exe.
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Ncftp, Gftp, Konqueror, KBear, Nftp.
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| IRC Clients | Mirc, Klient, XChat |
Xchat, KVirc, BitchX, Ksirc. |
| Instant Messaging clients | ICQ Lite, ICQ Corp, MSN, AIM, Yahoo.
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AIM, aMSN, GnomeICU (ICQ), Gaim. (Nearly all IM protocols), Ayttm. (Nearly all IM protocols), Kopete, Simple Instant Messenger.
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| Video/audio conference | NetMeeting |
GnomeMeeting, vat/vic/wb, NeVoT. |
IDS | BlackICE, Agnitum Outpost Firewall, Tripwire [prop], Kerio Personal Firewall.
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Snort, Portsentry / Hostsentry / Logsentry, Tripwire [GPL], Tripwall, AIDE. |
| Work with ssh | Putty, Irlex, cygwin + ssh.
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Kssh, ssh / openssh, GTelnet (Telnet, SSH, Rlogin). |
| Protocols analysing, sniffing | Sniffer Pro, EtherPeek (TokenPeek, AiroPeek), Windump, Ethereal, MS Network Monitor, Iris, Lan Explorer, NetSniffer, Snort. |
Ethereal, Tcpdump, Etherape, Ntop, Snort. |
System Software:
| Description | Windows | GNU/Linux |
| Text Editor | Notepad, WordPad, TextPad, Vim, Xemacs. |
Vim, Emacs, Nano (It's a free implementation of pico), joe.
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| Viewing PDF | Adobe Acrobat Distiller, GhostView.
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Acrobat Reader[Prop], Xpdf, GV, GhostView. |
| Creating PDF | Adobe Acrobat Distiller, GhostView, Ghostscript. |
ps2pdf command, PDFLatex, Ghostscript, Tex2Pdf, GhostView.
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| System configuration | Control Panel, Msconfig, RegEdit, WinBoost, Customizer XP, X-Setup, Config NT.
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setup (Red Hat), xf86config, xf86cfg, Linuxconf, Drakeconf, Webmin, yast (SuSE), sysinstall (FreeBSD). |
| Backup software | ntbackup (standard), Legato Networker [Prop]. |
Disk Archive, Bacula, dump / restore. (console, standard), Amanda (console).
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| Program for logs viewing | Event Viewer (built-in) |
Xlogmaster, Analog, Fwlogview. (firewall). |
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