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Networking

Windows apps Linux apps Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Lynx, etc. Epiphany, Firefox, Galeon, Konqueror, Lynx, Mozilla, Nautilus, Netscape, Opera, SeaMonkey, IceWeasel Internet browsers for the World Wide Web.
Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, Pegasus, Lotus Notes Kontact, Evolution, Thunderbird, Sylpheed-Claws Lotus Notes Email clients.
ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, Pidgin Mercury, Pidgin (formerly Gaim), Kopete, aMSN, KICQ, Gabber, Centericq Instant messaging software.
Microsoft Netmeeting Gnomemeeting
Microsoft HyperTerminal minicom
FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP FileZilla FTP Client, GFTP, KFTP (KFTPGrabber), Kasablanca, FireFTP, Konqueror, KBear, CrossFTP FTP client’s for browsing an FTP servers.
mIRC Konversation, KVIrc, XChat, BitchX Internet Relay Chat client’s.
UltraVNC, TightVNC, RealVNC, builtin remote desktop TightVNC, RealVNC, rdesktop, FreeNX, x11vnc, Synergy, XDMCP, x11 forwarding Allow remote desktop viewing or control.
MailWasher KShowmail
Forte Free Agent, Thunderbird, Pan Thunderbird, Pan, Sylpheed, See More Clients Here News Reader (Usenet newsgroups)
eMule aMule P2P Filesharing software
Azureus Azureus, Qtorrent, Ktorrent, bittornado, Deluge BitTorrent clients
Skype, Voipbuster Skype, Linphone, OpenWengo, Ekiga VOIP software

Multimedia

Windows apps Linux apps Description
Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, GIMPShop GIMP, GIMPShop, Krita, Pixel (non-free high quality), LightZone (non-free high quality)
Corel Draw, Corel Designer Inkscape, Sodipodi
Irfanview, ACDSee XnView, GQView, Mirage
3D Studio MAX, Blender Blender, Maya, Softimage, K-3D
Windows Media Player, PowerDVD MPlayer, Xine, Totem, Kaffeine, VLC
SIA Smaart Live, BRP-PACU
Winamp, Sonique, iTunes amaroK, XMMS, BMP, Audacious, juke, noatun, RhythmBox, xine will play aac and wma, Banshee
Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements Cinelerra, KDenlive, LiVES, Kino, AviDemux Video Editing Tools
Audacity, Cubase, CoolEdit, Goldwave Ardour, Rosegarden, Audacity, GNUsound, Beast
Audio Catalyst, dbpoweramp, CDex Grip, Audacity
Cakewalk kmid, kmidi
Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, Tux Paint Tux Paint KolourPaint
Videora thinliquidfilm

Office

Windows apps Linux apps Description
Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org OpenOffice, KOffice, Siag Office Office package
Word OOWriter, AbiWord, KWord Wordprocessing
Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox Kexi, PgAccess*, Rekall*, Knoda*, OOBase database
Excel, Lotus123, QuattroPro OOCalc, Gnumeric, KSpread Spreadsheet
Visio Kivio, Dia, OpenOffice.org oodraw
PowerPoint OOImpress, KPresenter Presentation
Microsoft Project Manager MrProject, Imendio Planner, Kplato Project Management
Outlook, Thunderbird + Lightning, Sunbird Evolution, Kontact, BALSA, Thunderbird + Lightning, Sunbird EMail
Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax GnuCash, KMyMoney, jGnash, MoneyDance, Grisbi, PLCash, CrossOver Office with Quicken, lazy8ledger Money
WinEdt, TeXnicCenter Kile, Texmaker

*PgAccess, Rekall, and Knoda are front-ends to an SQL server.

Desktop Publishing

Windows apps Linux apps Description
Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer OOWeb, NVU, KompoZer (fork of NVU 1.0), Quanta Plus, Mozilla, Screem, Bluefish, Amaya
Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher Scribus, OpenOffice.org oodraw
Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader Adobe Acrobat Reader, Xpdf, Kpdf, Ghostview, Evince PDF Reader
Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator With Ghostscript, many Linux apps can print or export to PDF, OpenOffice.org, kprint — can fax, convert to pdf, and combine pages, convert to PDF tools
Adobe Acrobat PDF editor pdftk, pdfedit, pdfjam PDF editing tools
SilverFast VueScan flatbed and film scanning
FinePrint page-crunch, mpage, Kprinter, psnup/PSutils, pdfnup/PDFjam Document Printing/Reformatting Tools

Utilities

Windows apps Linux apps Description
7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar Karchiver, File Roller, ark, hjsplit; command line: zip/unzip, tar, gzip, bzip2/bunzip2, lha, zoo, rar (shareware), unp (unpacks most common formats: tar[.gz,.bz2], gz, bz2, Z, ar/deb, rpm, shar, rar, arj, zip, LHa, cab, ace, tnef, uu (mail, news), mime, hqx, sea, zoo, pmd, cpio, afio, lzop)
Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM Arson, Eroaster, gcombust, K3b, XCDRoast, serpentine, GnomeBaker
Daemon Tools mount
Disclib gWhere
Edit (DOS) vi, jed, ne, pico, nano, Emacs, Minimum Profit, Joe
Google Desktop Beagle, Kerry, Recoll, Google Desktop Desktop Search
Norton Ghost Partition Image, g4u, Mondo
Norton Partition Magic QTparted, GParted
Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE KWrite, Kate, BlueFish, Leafpad, Gedit, Joe, Beaver, Cream, SciTE; see also EditPlus Wiki: Alternative Editors
Disk Size Explorer File Light ‘disk space used’ explorers
Fanout (scroll down) Fanout (scroll down) remote cmd execution to any number of machines running SSH.
Filemon, Regmon Changedfiles, strace, syscalltrack system call tracking (file monitor & others)
Veritas Backup Exec, Cobian Backup BackupPC, Bacula, Amanda, Veritas Netbackup, Simple Backup Suite, RESTORE Backup Tools
Bitvise Tunnelier gSTM[1] gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
WinMerge Meld[2] Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place (diffs update dynamically).

Server

Windows apps Linux apps Description
IIS, Apache Apache, Zeus, iPlanet, thttpd, iServer, lighttpd, YAWS ZOPE Web servers for hosting a website.
Fileserver\Print Services Samba Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems.
FileZilla FTP Client & Server proftpd, vsftpd, pure-ftpd FTP servers, for hosting files.
NetLimiter Trickle, Level 7 Filter, ClarkConnect, Bandwidth Arbitrator Bandwidth (re)shaping/management.
Exchange Citadel zimbra Open-Xchange Store appointments, contacts, tasks, mails, bookmarks, documents, and many more elements and share them with other users.
Sharepoint KnowledgeTree Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing

Scientific

Windows apps Linux apps Description
Maple, Mathematica Maple, Mathematica, Maxima, Axiom, SymPy Computer Algebra
Matlab Matlab, Octave, SciLab Numerical Computing
SPSS, Stata, EViews R-project, PSPP, S-Plus Statistical Analysis
Verilog iverilog Verilog Simulator
Google Earth, NASA World Wind, Celestia, Stellarium Google Earth, Celestia, Stellarium; see also Geody, a geospatial search engine and web tool that support such applications. Geography and Astronomy

Security

Windows apps Linux apps Description
Norton/McAfee Antivirus, ClamWin, AVG, AntiVir ClamAV, AVG Antivirus, Avast Home for Linux Antivirus Software
ZoneAlarm Guarddog, Firestarter Firewall Software

Other

Windows apps Linux apps Description
ActiveSync SynCE
DemoStudio(GPL) vnc2swf, rafb.net
Endnote Pybliographer, Tellico Bibliography Manager
CDisplay Sequential Image Viewer Comix, Comical Comic book reader (.cbz, .cbr)
Windows Update, Add/Remove programs apt-get, Aptitude, portage, urpmi, yast, yum
µBook, Ice Book Reader PyBookReader, Kniga, yBook with wine
Freemind Freemind MindMapping Software
WinRunner xautomation, expect automating interactive applications
KTouch Learn how to touchType
VMWare QEMU, KVM, VirtualBox, VMWare Virtual Machine Emulator
SyncToy Unison File Synchronization

Application Finder / Windows programs and OSS/Linux based equivalents

Alternative programs list for users that have Windows programs but dont know the actual OSS/Linux based equivalents. Thanks to the beauty of the open copyright, we can reproduce the orginal table found here

Windows Program OSS/Linux Equivalent
Photoshop The Gimp *, Krita, Pixel image editor (commercial application)
Microsoft Office OpenOffice *
Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox *, Opera *, Epiphany
Winamp XMMS, BMPx (was: Beep-Media-Player)
iTunes Rhythmbox, amaroK (Playing) – GTKPod (Synching), Banshee
Mirc XChat *, XChat-GNOME, Konversation, irssi *
AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber Gaim *, Kopete, Centericq
MSN (with voice and video support) AMSN, Mercury
Premiere (Movie Editing) Kino *, Cinelerra
DreamWeaver, FrontPage Nvu *, Bluefish, Quanta-Plus
Cdex SoundJuicer
Nero K3B, Gnomebaker, Nero for Linux
Outlook Professional Evolution, Kontact
Outlook Express Thunderbird *, Balsa, Sylpheed, Kmail
Partition Magic Gparted, QTparted, Fdisk, Cfdisk
Download Accelerator (Flashget) D4X, Wget, Kget
WSFTP, CuteFTP GFTP, Kbear, NCFTP, (Nautilus), (Konqueror)
NetMeeting GnomeMeeting or Ekiga
Voice Chat (Ventrilo) TeamSpeak
VOIP (Skype, Gizmo) Skype *, Gizmo *, Wengo *
Firewall (ZoneAlarm, BlackIce) Firestarter, Guarddog
WinFax HylaFax
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Eye Of Gnome, Gwenview
DVD playing (InterActual) Ogle, Mplayer, Kaffeine
Visio Dia, Dia-Gnome, Kivio [1]
Publisher Scribus
WordProcessor (StandAlone) Abiword *
Notepad Emacs, Gedit *, Kedit, Vim, Nano *
Spreadsheet (StandAlone) Gnumeric
Quicken Gnucash, KMyMoney, Moneydance
Cakewalk (Audio Engineering) Audacity, RoseGarden, Rezound, LMMS
AcroBat Reader AcroRead, XPDF, Evince, KPDF
RealPlayer RealPlayer, Mplayer
Remote Desktop Rdesktop, VNC *, Terminal Services Client
CAD QCad
News Feeds/Aggregation Akregator, Straw, Knode, Liferea
Project Management Planner

* These are cross-platform programs you can recommend to Windows users hesitant to make the switch to linux.

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What is ?

1.Language?

2.Low level?

3.High level?

4.Assembly?

5.Kernel?

6.Interpreter?

7.Compiler?

8.Middle Level?

9.Byte code?

10.Portablity?

11.Machine Language?

12.Class?

13. Object Oriented?
Featurs & differences:

14. C, C++, Python, Java, Perl,

15. Oracle, Mysql, Postgresql, SqlServer

16. CVS, SVN, RCS ?

17. Linux, Unix, Windows?

18. Two tier, Three tier?

19. Procedural Language, PL/SQL?

20. Drivers?

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Problem:

I tried to play xmms through GUI which did not work. The output of terminal was as follows:

goldgod@localhost:~$ xmms

Message: device: default
Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
serial 1526 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
serial 1527 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code

Solutions:

Type the following line then your problem will be solve

goldgod@localhost:~$ export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

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