| 9) Scientific and special programs. |
| Useful links: | - | Scientific Applications on Linux - many links to both OSS and proprietary applications. |
| Math system in MathCad style | Mathcad | Gap. |
| Math system in Matlab style | Matlab | 1) Matlab for Linux. [FTP]
2) Octave. (+ Gnuplot)
3) Scilab.
4) R.
5) Yorick.
6) rlab.
7) Yacas.
8) Euler. |
| Math system in Mathematica style | Mathematica | 1) Mathematica for Linux. [Prop]
2) Maxima.
3) MuPad.
4) NumExp. |
| Math system in Maple style | Maple | 1) Maple for Linux. [Prop]
2) Maxima.
3) MuPad. |
| Equation / math editor | Mathtype, MS Equation Editor | 1) OpenOffice Math.
2) MathMLed.
3) Kformula (Koffice).
4) LyX.
5) Texmacs. |
| Programs for three-dimensional modeling | SolidWorks, ... | ProEngineer Linux. [Prop] |
| Programs for three-dimensional modeling | CATIA for Windows | CATIA. It was designed under Unix, and from version 4 (2000) it was ported under Windows (not too successfully). |
| Programs for three-dimensional modeling | SolidEdge for Windows | SolidEdge (part of more powerful package Unigraphics). |
| Engineering | ANSYS for Windows | ANSYS. |
| CAD/CAM/CAE | Autocad, Microstation | 1) Varkon.
2) Linuxcad. [Prop, ~100$]
3) Varicad. [Prop]
4) Cycas. [Prop]
5) Tomcad.
6) Thancad.
7) Fandango.
8) Lignumcad.
9) Giram.
10) Jcad.
11) QSCad.
12) FreeEngineer.
13) Ocadis.
14) PythonCAD. |
| CAD/CAM/CAE, simplified | ArchiCAD | Qcad. |
| Desktop Publishing Systems | Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress | Adobe Framemaker. [Proprietary, cancelled] |
| Small desktop publishing systems | MS Publisher | 1) Scribus - Desktop Publishing for Linux.
2) KWord. |
| Diagram and chart designer | Microsoft Visio | 1) Kivio (Koffice).
2) Dia.
3) KChart.
4) xfig.
5) Tgif + dotty.
6) Tulip. |
| Geographic image processing software | Erdas Imagine, ER Mapper, ENVI | ENVI for Linux. |
| GIS (Geographical information system) | ArcView | 1) Grass.
2) Quantum GIS.
3) PostGIS. |
| Vectorization of bitmaps | MapEdit, Easy Trace | 1) Autotrace. |
| Software CNC, controlling machine tools | OpenCNC [Prop] | |
| Advanced text processing system in TeX style | MikTex, emTeX (DOS) | 1) TeX.
2) TeTeX / LaTeX
3) LyX (WYSIWYM).
4) Kile. |
| Convenient, functional and user-friendly TeX-files / dvi-files editor. | WinEdt | 1) Kile (KDE Integrated LaTeX Environment).
2) Ktexmaker2.
3) Tk LaTeX Editor. |
| Statistical Computing Language and Environment | S-PLUS | R. |
| Statistical analysis | SPSS, Statistica | |
| Econometrics Software | Eviews, Gretl | |
| Emulation of the circuit | Electronic Workbench | 1) Geda.
2) Oregano.
3) Xcircuit.
4) Gnome Assisted Electronics.
5) SPICE.
6) SPICE OPUS.
7) NG-SPICE. |
| Program to draw chemical structures | Chemdraw, Isisdraw | Xdrawchem. |
| Downloader and player for Olympus dictophone | Olympus DSS Player | ??? |
| Market analysis | MetaStock | ??? |
| Electronics scheme design | PCAD | 1) Eagle.
2) Geda. |
| The oscilloscope emulation | Winoscillo | Xoscope. |
| Measurement of the temperature and voltages on motherboard | MBMonitor, PCAlert | KHealthCare (KDE). |
| S.M.A.R.T-attributes and temperature of the hard disk | Come on CD with mainboard, Active SMART | 1) smartctl.
2) Hddtemp-0.3.
3) IDEload-0.2.
4) Smartsuite-2.1.
5) Smartmontools.
6) Ide-smart.
7) Smartsuite. |
| Memory testing | SiSoft SANDRA | Memtest86. |
| Program for watching temperatures, fanspeeds, etc | SiSoft SANDRA, SiSoft SAMANTHA | 1) Ksensors.
2) Lm_sensors.
3) xsensors.
4) wmsensormon and other applets for AfterStep / WindowMaker / FluxBox. |
| HDD testing / benchmarking | SiSoft SANDRA, SiSoft SAMANTHA | |
| Video testing / benchmarking | Final Reality
| 1) X11perf.
2) Viewperf. |
| Realtime Control | SHA Sybera Hardware Access | DIAPM RTAI - Realtime Application Interface. |
| Simulator of nets | ???
| 1) NS. |
Neural network simulation
| ???
| 1) Xnbc.
2) Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (SNNS). |
| "Sensor for LCD" | ??? | 1) Sensors-lcd. |
| Electrocardiogrammas viewer | ???
| 1) ecg2png. |
| A software technology, that turns x86 computer into a full-function PLC-like process controller | SoftPLC | 1) MatPLC. |
| Catalog of the software for translators | - | Linux for translators. |
| Translation memory | 1) Trados Translators Workbench 2) Deja Vu 3) Star Transit 4) SDLX 5) OmegaT | 1) OmegaT. |
| Catalog of educational software | - | 1) SchoolForge.
2) Seul / EDU. |
| Designing and viewing DTDs | NearFar Designer [Prop] | ??? |
| 10) Emulators. |
| Virtual machine emulator | VMWare for Windows | 1) VMWare for Linux. [Prop]
2) Win4Lin. [Proprietary, $89].
3) Bochs.
4) Plex86.
5) User Mode Linux. |
| Linux emulator | | 1) User Mode Linux. |
| X Window System (XFree) emulator | XFree under CygWin. | - |
| Windows emulator | - | 1) Wine. (GUI: gwine, tkwine)
2) Transgaming WineX. (GUI: tqgui) [Prop]
3) Crossover Office. |
| Sony PlayStation emulator | ePSXe, ... | |
| ZX Spectrum emulator | X128, Speccyal, SpecX, SpecEmu, UnrealSpeccy, ...
| 1) Xzx.
2) Glukalka.
3) Fuse.
4) ZXSP-X.
5) FBZX.
6) SpectEmu. |
| Arcade machines emulator | ??? | 1) Xmame / Xmess.
2) Advancemame.
Frontends:
advancemenu. ckmame. flynn. gmame. gnomame. grok. grustibus. gxmame. it. it's quit. fancy. kmamerun. kmamu. qmamecat. startxmame. setcleaner. tkmame. |
| ST emulator | ???
| 1) StonX. |
| C64 emulator | ??? | 1) Vice. |
| Amiga emulator | ???
| 1) UAE. |
| Mac 68k emulator | ??? | 1) Basilisk II. |
| Game boy emulator | ???
| 1) Vboy.
2) VGBA. (GUI: vgb-gui) |
| Atari 2600 Video Computer System emulator | | 1) Stella. |
| NES emulator | 1) Zsnes.
2) Snes9x.
| 1) Zsnes.
2) Snes9x.
3) FWNes.
4) GTuxNes. |
| M680x0 Arcade emulator | 1) Rainemu. | 1) Rainemu. |
| Multi / other emulators | ???
| 1) M.E.S.S.
2) Zinc. |
| 11) Other / Humour :) |
| Space simulator | 1) Openuniverse.
2) Celestia.
3) Zetadeck. | 1) Openuniverse.
2) Celestia.
3) Kstars.
4) Zetadeck. |
| TV driver | - | RivaTV. |
| System, running from CD without installing (Live CD) | Impossible | 1) Knoppix.
2) Cool Linux.
3) Blin.
4) DemoLinux.
5) DyneBolic.
6) Gentoo (live CD).
7) Lonix.
8) Virtual Linux.
9) Bootable Business Card (LNX-BBC).
10) ByzantineOS.
11) FreeLoader Linux.
12) MoviX.
13) Freeduc CD.
14) SuSE live-eval CD.
15) Freedom Linux.
16) Eagle Linux. |
| Boot rescue/tools diskette | Windows system diskette | 1) Linux system diskette.
2) Tomsrtbt.
3) BanShee Linux. |
| Local file systems mount | ext2fs (driver), explore2fs (program) - ext2/3 under Windows | Linux-NTFS. (driver for NTFS partitions mounting) |
| Installing software and uninstalling | InstallShield, WISE, GhostInstaller, Microsoft Installer - the analog of rpm | |
| Installing software from source and uninstalling | Minimalist GNU For Windows
| 1) make install, make uninstall
2) CheckInstall.
3) Sinstall.
4) Emerge (Gentoo).
5) Apt-get & frontends (synaptic, aptitude, ...). |
| System update | Windows Update | 1) Ximian Red Carpet.
2) Red Hat Network.
3) MandrakeOnline.
4) SuSE YaST Online Update.
5) Caldera Volution Online.
6) Apt.
7) Gentoo ebuilds (portage).
8) Debian GNU/Linux package search.
9) Yum. |
| Certification | MCSD, MCT, MCSE | 1) Red Hat Certification.
2) Sair Linux and GNU Certification.
3) Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC).
4) Linux+.
5) Prometric.
6) VUE. |
| Icons on desktop | Explorer | 1) Desktop File Manager.
2) Idesk. |
| Work with screensavers | Desktop properties | 1) xset.
2) xlockmore.
3) xscreensaver.
4) kscreensaver. |
| Place for keeping "removed" files | Trash | 1) Trash Can.
2) Libtrash. |
| Checking the hard disk | Scandisk | fsck -check or reiserfsck -check.
Not needed with journaled file systems (reiserfs, ext3, jfs, xfs). |
| Defragmentation | defrag | Not needed. |
| GUI of the system | Windows Explorer | Kde, Gnome, IceWM, Windowmaker, Blackbox, Fluxbox, ... |
| Windows XP GUI | Windows XP | XPde. |
| Flavors of the sytem | 9x, NT, XP | RedHat, Mandrake, Knoppix, Debian, SuSE, ALT, ASP, Gentoo, Slackware, Linux From Scratch, ... |
| Tactics | FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) | Open Source!
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win". |
| Source code of the kernel freely available | No | Of course :) |
| Command line | 1) command.com :).
2) cmd.exe
3) Windows Script-xing Host
4) 4DOS / 4NT
5) Minimalist GNU For Windows
6) Unix tools for Windows (AT&T) | 1) Bash.
2) Csh.
3) Zsh.
4) Ash.
5) Tcsh. |
| Free of charge operating system | Microsoft Windows. (Imagine yourself that in Russia there are 95% of users having a pirate copy of Windows :). | Linux - the Free operating system!! |
| - | Nimda | Slapper. |
| - | Wincih, klez, etc | No analogs |
| Backdoors and hidden keys | Decide it yourself :). | - |
| Easter eggs, undocumented possibilities | Logo with Windows developers, Doom in Excel 95, 3D-racing in Excel 2000, etc, etc... | - |
| The magazines | Windows Magazine | 1) Linux Journal.
2) Linux Gazette.
3) Linux magazine.
4) Linux pratico (Italy). |
| - | Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) | 1) Kernel panic.
2) Screensaver "bsod" :). |
| Whom it is necessary to curse for bugs and defects of the system | M$, Bill Gates personally | 1) Developers of the distribution.
2) All the Linux people and Linus Torvalds personally :).
3) Yourself and your own /dev/hands :)). |
| - | M$.com | GNU.org, FSF.org |
| - | Windows.com | Linux.org |
| - | Bill Gates, "Road ahead" | Linus Torvalds, "Just for fun" :). |
| - | Bill Gates, "Business @ the speed of thought" | Richard M. Stallman, "The right to read". |
