Microsoft Windows 95 - LINUX ANALOGY list
MICROSOFT Windows 95 - LINUX ANALOGY LIST =========================================== LINUX (UNIX) is a 100% POSIX compliant operating system -------------------------------------------------------- 100% POSIX compliance is required by U.S. Govt. on OS ------------------------------------------------------ Linux applications are at : http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html Note: Some of the packages listed below are commercial and others are on the Linux cdrom. Microsoft Windows for linux : Linux has WABI, WINE, VNC packages which runs all MS Windows 3.1, Win32 programs inside linux window! MSDOS for linux : Linux has Dr. DOS from http://www.caldera.com which runs all DOS programs inside a linux window!! See also DosEmu (DOS-Emulator) package Microsoft SQLserver (RDBMS Database) : Linux has these databases - PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org (see Database-PostgreSQL-HOWTO on cdrom) Oracle RDBMS - see http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Oracle-HOWTO.html MySQL - http://www.tcx.se (from Sweden) Solid - http://www.solidtech.com (from Finland) Addabas - http://www.adabas.com (from Germany) YardSQL - http://www.yard.de (from Germany) Empress - http://www.empress.com (from U.S.) Interbase - http://www.interbase.com (from Borland Corp) Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets : Linux has TeaPot, WingZ and NeXS. Microsoft Win95 Desktop : Linux has KDE - http://www.kde.org Lesstiff - A industry standard Motif tool and Windows, Afterstep, Windowmaker (NeXTstep-lookalike), QVwm, fvwm95 (Win95-lookalike), amiwm (amiga), mlvwm (mac) etc. Microsoft Internet Web server: Linux has Apache, Roxen Challenger, Netscape Fasttrack, Sun Microsystem's Java Web server. Microsoft Internet Explorer: Linux has Netscape browser/communicator, LynX, Kfm (KDE Filemanager), Mosaic, Amaya, Arena, Sun Microsystem Hotjava, etc. Microsoft Win32 connectivity : Linux has SAMBA, and Netware connectivity with MARS-NWE. Microsoft Word : Linux has Wordperfect 7.0, LyX, xdvi, XWord, Adobe Acrobat reader, FrameMaker, LaTex, SGML Tools, Jade, JadeTex, Maxwell. Microsoft Office suite: Linux has StarOffice suite (from Germany), ApplixWare office suites, Coreldraw suites, SGML, Jade. Microsoft Visual Basic: Linux has VisualTCL, SpecTCL Microsoft Visual C++ : Linux has QT application framework C++ QtEZ, VIBE, Code Crusader, WipeOut, RHIDE, C-Forge XWPE - X Windows programming environment, XEmacs, Gnome, GNU C Compiler (C, C++, Objective-C) Microsoft Exchange (Mail server): Linux has Sendmail, qmail, smail, exim, exmh package (mail-user-agent) Microsoft JAVA : Linux has Java IDE "FreeBuilder", JccWarrior, Wipeout, Vibe, SunMicrosystem Java Workshop for Linux Microsoft Mail/Lotus CCMAIL : Linux has ZMail, exmh, umt, xfmail, kmail, xmh, xcmail, soma, privtool, etc.. Microsoft Scheduler/Personal productivity tools: See the Personal productivity Tools at http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html Microsoft Notepad/Wordpad : Linux has CRisp, vi, NEdit, Jed, EMACS, Joe, Elvis and several hundreds more... on cdrom Microsoft Desktop Publishing : Linux has SGML tools, LaTex, Jade, JadeTex, FrameMaker, Corel office, Applixware, StarOffice. AutoCAD CAD package: Linux has AC3D package at http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ac3d.html Adobe Photoshop : Linux has GIMP at http://www.gimp.org and also on linux cdrom Intersolv PVCS (Source Code Control System): Linux has RCS and CVS SCCS. Progamming languages : Linux has C, C++, Java, Lisp, Fortran, Perl, Python, Pascal, Intel X86 assembler, awk, sed, korn shell, zsh, bash, Tcl/Tk, Prolog, Rexx, Smalltalk, SQL, yacc, flex and hundreds more on cdrom. Computer Games : Linux has Hundreds of computer games like chess, doom.. on linux cdrom Buy Linux cdrom (prices starts from $5 goes upto $400 U.S. dollars) from - http://www.lsl.com http://www.cheapbytes.com http://linuxcentral.com/ http://www.linuxmall.com/ http://www.redhat.com http://www.suse.com http://www.caldera.com A single linux cdrom contains more than 1500 software packages! Purchase a Intel/AMD/Cyrix box for $600 (without microsoft windows/DOS) from the local computer hardware store and save $200 by avoiding Microsoft Windows! There are local hardware stores who sell bare computer hardware only WITHOUT any pre-loaded software or mail-order hardware without any MS Windows. Try Linux once. You will become a die hard Linux fan!!!!