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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 |
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| Inter-Networking |
Mars-NWE |
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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
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| 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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