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Technical Documents and Other Useful Information - Win/Lin Equivalents
Last Reviewed 03/07/06

 

Who Says Linux doesn't have all the Applications Windows Does? Sure, there are less games, but if you're in an office environment you don't want those games there anyway.

Linux comes with 100s if not 1000s of applications included in every distribution package.

Below are some of the common equivalent applications:

Linux Server Equivalents

Service Linux NT Novell
Inter-Networking Samba Connectivity to NT Networks
Inter-Networking Mars-NWE Connectivity to Novell Networks
Mail Server Postfix, Qmail, Squirrelmail Mercury Mail, Exchange Mercury Mail, Groupwise
DHCP DHCP DHCP DHCP
Proxy/Filtering Squid, Squidguard, Dan's Guardian MS Proxy, ISA Border Manager
Web Server Apache IIS Netware - Enterprise Web Server, Apache
Firewall IPTABLES, Others ISA, Others Packet Filtering, Border Manager, Others
Network Address Translation IP Masquerading Multiple Solutions Multiple Solutions
DNS Bind DNS Services DNS Services

Linux Workstation Equivalents

Linux NT/Macintosh
Star Office, Open Office, Word Perfect

Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Open Office, Star Office

Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Others Netscape, Explorer, Opera
Telnet, SSH, FTP, etc Telnet, SSH, FTP, etc
The Gimp Photoshop
XPDF Adobe Acrobat Reader
Shockwave and Flash Shockwave and Flash
Ximian Evolution Outlook
Dia Visio

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