Key Linux apps
Saturday, 13 August 2005, michuk
What is the Linux equivalent of application X - this is the second most popular questions on all the GNU/Linux forums, just after the famous “What distro should I choose” 
Linux distros provide office suites, multimedia, networking and graphics programs… nearly all you can only dream of having on your desktop. Most of the apps accessible for free or for money under the Windows platform have their counterparts in the Linux world. In the table below you an see the key programs for each purpose divided into 3 groups: KDE apps (applications written using the Qt library for the K Desktop Environment), Gnome apps (applications written using the GTK library, mostly for the Gnome desktop) and other command line or graphical apps which use different libraries (like Tcl, Motif, etc).
| KDE (Qt) | Gnome (GTK) | Other (Tk/Tcl, Wine, CLI) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| File managers | Konqueror, Krusader | Nautilus, Gnome-Commander | Rox, Midnight Commander |
| Office suites | KOffice | GnomeOffice (Abiword + Gnumeric) | Openoffice.org, Siag Office |
| Text editors | Kate, KWrite, Kedit | Mousepad, Gedit | Xedit, Emacs, vim |
| Image browsers | KView, Gwenview, Kuickshow | GQView, gThumb, F-Spot, GtkSee | Picasa | Graphics programs | Kivio, Karbon14 | GIMP, Sodipodi, Blender, Inkscape | Imagemagick |
| Multimedia apps | Video: Kaffeine, noatun, KMPlayer Audio: amaroK, juK |
Video: Totem, GXine, GMPlayer, VLC Audio: Beep Media Player (bmp), Rhythmbox |
Video: mplayer, xine Audio: XMMS |
| CD/DVD burning | K3B | Gnome Baker, Gnome Toaster, Serpentine (Audio CD) | gcombust, XCDRoast, cdrecord, cdrdao |
| Internet browsers | Opera, Konqueror | Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Browser, Epiphany, Galeon | Dillo, Elinks |
| E-mail and newsgroups clients | Kontact (KMail, KNode, aKregator), M2 (in Opera Browser) | Mozilla Thunderbird, Novell Evolution, Balsa | Sylpheed Claws, Gnu Mail |
| Instant Messengers | Kopete (jabber, gg, icq, msn…), Skype | Gaim (jabber, gg, icq, msn…), Wengophone | aMSN, CenterICQ |
| Jabber clients | Psi, Kopete | Gajim, Kf, Gabber, Gossip, Gaim | Tkabber, ekg2 |
| P2P | KMldonkey (emule, bittorrent, gnutella), Valknut (DC+), qtorrent, ktorrent | aMule, Gnome BTdownload | mldonkey, LimeWire, Azureus, xMule |
Other tables of equivalents
You may find at least two other tables of equivalents on the Internet. You may found our list just a brief summary of those lists. Our goal was to provide only the most popular choices. I you need more information, consult one of the following lists:
- Table of Equivalent Software from Librevis Wiki.
- Linux software equivalent to Windows software from wiki.linuxquestions.org
- The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux from linuxrsp.ru
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I was wondering why you have p2p equivalents and news reader equivalents but no binary news equivalents what is there equivalent to newzbins and newsleecher other than klibido. I’m considering strongly backing up everything and moving to mandrake, but i want to make sure i have everything i need to make the transisiton flawless…
I don’t know the programs you mention but Pan is an easy-to-use binary newsreader which is similar to the Grabit program in Windows. It works on any desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc.).