Alternative software for GNU/Linux

Internet

• Web Browser: Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, Epiphany, Links, Dillo
• E-Mail Messaging: Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail, Sylpheed, Claws Mail, Balsa, Arrow, Aethera
• Instant Messaging: gAIM, Pidgin, Kopete, Kmess, Skype, aMSN, Yahoo Messenger for Unix
• Players new (newsgroups) : Knode, Pan, NewsReader, Thunderbird, Sylpheed, Claws Mail
• RSS aggregator: Liferea, Akregator, Thunderbird, RSSOwl, KNewsTicker
• Downloading Files: Wget, Downloader for X (D4X), Aria, Getleft, K Get, Urlgfe
• Aspiring websites: HTTrack, Kmago, XsiteCopy, Wget, D4X
• Downloading FTP : GFTP, Kbear, Konqueror, Kasablanca
• Download P2P apart from BitTorrent : aMule, LimeWare, Lopster, MLDonkey, GTK Gnutella, GNUnet, The Circle,

Freenet

• Downloading BitTorrent: BitTorrent, Azureus, BitTornado, ABC, KTorrent
• Audio / Video conference : GnomeMeeting
• Remote assistance: VNC, ssh / openssh, TightVNC
• Firewall: Shorewall, Kmyfirewall, Easy Firewall Generator, Firewall Builder, Guarddog, FireStarter, Iptables
• Antivirus (mainly for windows partitions) : Clamav / Klamav, Avast, F-Prot
• Anti-RootKit, anti-backdoor : chkrootkit, rkhunter
• Update : prior distribution (see the documentation of distribution)
• Encryption: GnuPG, KGPG, Gpg
• Creating images / partition disk cloning: G4U (Ghost for Unix), Kbackup, PartImage

Files Management

• File Manager: Konqueror, Nautilus, Thunar, Krusader, Kcommander, Midnight Commander
• Archiving : Gnozip, Karchiver, FileRoller, Ark
• Burning : K3B, GnomeBaker, GCombust, Brasero (ex Bonfire), X-CDRoast, Nero Linux

Multimedia

• Audio player: VLC, XMMS, Beep Media Player, Juk, Noatun, MPlayer
• Audioplayer with Audiotec: Amarok, Rhythmbox
• Audio Rip: Sound Juicer, Grip
• Audio encoding: SoundJuicer, Grip, KaudioCreator, Kaffeine, Audacity
• Player video /DVD: Xine, Mplayer, VLC, Kaffeine, Totem, Ogle
• Video Editor: Cinelerra, Kino, Avidemux, CinePaint
• Audio/ video encoder: OGMRip, K9copy, k3b, Winki The Ripper, Thoggen
• Copy of DVD content: K9copy, xDVDShrink, Drip, DVD::Rip
• Flash player: Adobe Flash Player

Graphics

• Image Viewer: GwenView, GQView, Kview, ShowImg, gThumb, kuickshow
• Bitmap paint : Gimp, Krita, Pixel32
• Vector Design: Inkscape, Sodipodi, Karbon14, Xara LX
• 3D paint: Blender, KPovModeler
• Diagrams: Dia
• Screen shots : KSnapShot (KDE), gnome-screenshot, ImageMagick

Office

• Office suites : OpenOffice.org, Koffice
• Word Processing: OpenOffice.org Writer, KWord
• Spreadsheets: OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet, GNUmeric
• Presentation: OpenOffice.org Impress, Kpresenter, Latex
• Database : OpenOffice.org Base, Kexi
• Publisher (PAO) : OpenOffice.org Draw, Scribus
• PDF viewer: Adobe Reader, Evince, KPDF, Xpdf
• PDF Creator: OpenOffice.org, Ghostscript, ps2pdf, PDFLatex, Tex2PDF
• Text file Editor: Kate, Kwrite, Gedit, Nedit
• Software for bank management : Grisbi, GNUCash, KmyMoney
• Agenda : Evolution, Kontact
• Optical character recognition (OCR): ClarOCR, Kooka, Gocr, Xsane

General Development

• Edition source code: Geany, Gedit, Kwrite
• Compiler C: gcc
• Compiler C++: g++
• Database: MySql, PostGreSql
• Assembler/Disassembler: nasm, as

Webmaster development

• Creating Web video: NVU, Kompozer
• Creating Web sites by source: Bluefish, Quanta+, Screem
• Server: Apache + PHP + MySQL, XAMPP, Tomcat (For Java Servlet and JSP)

Driver utilities

• Calculator: Gcalctool, Kcalc, Qalculate
• Partition manager: GNUParted, QTParted, GParted, DiskDrake (Mandriva), cfdisk, fdisk
• Editor hexadecimal: GHex
• Virtual machine: VirtualBox, VMware, Qemu