| Windows apps | Linux apps | Description |
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs |
apt-get, Aptitude, portage, rpm, urpmi, yast, yum, Synaptic
| Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See package management.
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| Google Desktop |
Beagle, Recoll, Google Desktop
| Desktop Search
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| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM |
K3b,
XCDRoast, more
| CD burning
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| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar |
Karchiver,
File Roller,
ark,
hjsplit; command line tools
| Archivers
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| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE |
KWrite,
Kate, BlueFish, Gedit, Joe
| Text Editors
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| WinMerge, SyncToy |
Meld, Unison, Synkron, rSync
| File synchronization
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| Daemon Tools |
mount, GMount-ISO
| ISO mounting
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| Norton Ghost |
Partition Image, g4u, Mondo, dd
| Disk imaging
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| Norton Partition Magic |
QTparted, GParted
| Disk partitioning
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| ActiveSync |
SynCE
| Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
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| Veritas Backup Exec, Cobian Backup |
UniSon, Veritas Netbackup, more
| Backup
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Outlook, Thunderbird + Lightning, Sunbird
| Evolution, Kontact, BALSA, Thunderbird + Lightning, Sunbird
| Personal information managers
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| chkdsk | fsck | check your file system (and the hard disk beneath it) for errors
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Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| GnuCash, KMyMoney, jGnash, MoneyDance, Grisbi, PLCash, CrossOver Office with Quicken, lazy8ledger
| Accounting
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| Disclib | gWhere
| Disk cataloging programs
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Microsoft Project Manager
| Imendio Planner, Kplato, MOOS Project Viewer, MrProject, RationalPlan
| Project management
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Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox
| Kexi, OOBase
| Database
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WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| Kile, Texmaker, LyX
| LaTeX IDEs
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Visio
| Kivio, Dia
| Diagramming
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Excel, Lotus123, QuattroPro
| OOCalc, Gnumeric, KSpread
| Spreadsheet
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PowerPoint
| OOImpress, KPresenter
| Presentation
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Word
| OOWriter, AbiWord, KWord, LaTeX
| Word Processing
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Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org
| OpenOffice, KOffice, Siag Office
| Office package
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Filemon, Regmon
| syscalltrack
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
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| WinRunner | xautomation | automating interactive applications
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Disk Size Explorer
| File Light, Konqueror
| Disk usage analyzers
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