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Re: [school-discuss] The Windows/Linux equivalency table



I posted the table on opensourceschools.org

Additions such as this sure would be great as comments so we can make an 
easy-to-find equivalence table in the help section.

David 

Quoting Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>:

> On Saturday 20 April 2002 07:46, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > Here's the table of Windows/Linux application equivalencies (posted to
> > OS:N on December 31, 2001), plus some updates that were suggested later:
> 
> > Application         Windows program       OSS/Linux equivalent(s)
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Word processing:    Microsoft Word        AbiWord, KOffice, StarOffice
> 
> <Esc><BS>OpenOffice.org Writer, PatheticWriter, KLyx
> 
> > Web browsing:       Internet Explorer     Konqueror, Mozilla, Galeon
> 
> , SkipStone, Amaya
> 
> > Spreadsheets:       Microsoft Excel       Gnumeric, KOffice, StarOffice
> 
> <Esc><BS>OpenOffice.org Calc, SIAG
> 
> > Graphics:           Adobe Photoshop       The GIMP
> 
> , Kontour, Sketch, GPhoto, Vertex, XFig, Xmorph, Dia, Kivio
> 
> > Web design:         Allaire HomeSite      Glimmer
> 
> , Screem, BlueFish, Quanta+
> 
> > Web sharing:        Microsoft IIS         Apache
> 
> , Roxen, Zope, Boa, Tux
> 
> > Groupware PIM¹:     Microsoft Outlook     Evolution, PHP Groupware
> 
> SamsungContact [not OS AFAIK], Bynari groupware, KDEPIM
> 
> > Security:           Fortres               (no extra software needed)
> 
> , PortSentry, Nessus, NMap, TcpDump, EtheReal, Prelude
> 
> > System updates²:    Windows Update        Red Hat Network, apt-get
> 
> , MandrakeUpdate, urpmi
> 
> > Slide presentation: Microsoft PowerPoint  KPresenter, StarOffice
> 
> <Esc><BS>OpenOffice.org Impress, Egon Animator, MagicPoint, 
> 
> Publisher/Layout    Microsoft Publisher   Scribus, KWord
> IRC/IM              Messenger             Gabber, EveryBuddy, GAIM,
> GnomeICU,
>                                           KIT, Kopte, LICQ, XChat, KVirc
> Remote Access       RAS, PCAnywhere, VNC  OpenSSH, VNC, rdesktop
> 
> > 1 Nobody at my school actually uses a groupware PIM, but they should.
> > 2 For obvious reasons, my school should regularly update their systems,
> >   but nobody ever does.
> 
> It's probably very helpful to also show applications (e.g. Mozilla, 
> OpenOffice.org, VNC, KDE including Konqueror [Yes!]) that run on both Windows
> 
> and other-including-Linux platforms, the point being that an admin/school 
> board then has additional options for transitioning *gradually* or by 
> units/areas rather than just en-bloc leap-of-faith all-or-nothing style.
> 
> For example, Mozilla currently runs on Windows, Linux-etc and MacOS: this 
> reassures administrators that if they switch to a web-based paradigm for 
> services, it will be uniformly accessible from all platforms. OpenOffice.org
> 
> runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris only but there is a Mac port underway, so
> 
> uniform corss-platform officing is mostly there and will soon be all there.
> 
> > It was later brought up that specifically educational software is not
> > yet as widely available on Linux as Windows or Macintosh, but it seems
> > to me that some progress has been made there.  However, I don't see any
> > Linux products yet that are at the level of Windows games (e.g. "Reader
> > Rabbit" and "Carmen Sandiego")
> 
> Try the following samples:
> 
>     TuxRacer (now avail as a commercial product), FlightGear, Maelstrom
> (runs
>     on Mac and Win too), Frozen-Bubble, Chromium, BZFlag, PySol (runs on
> Win
>     too).
> 
> All available as Open Source, and so (tah-daah) all available to be adapted
> to 
> specific educational ends. Try _that_ with a Magic Schoolbus CD-ROM! (-:
> 
> > BMan also mentioned that Fortres was broken at his school 3 days after
> > it was introduced.  I never said it was any good (I had to break it
> > myself once because it was denying everyone access to everything), I
> > just said that it is used.
> 
> If you *must* use Windows, you can't go past Trojan Defense System, made by a
> 
> WestOzzie and subject to rave reviews worldwide.
> http://tds.diamondcs.com.au/
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
> 


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