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SOME COMMON COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE AND THEIR EQUIVALENT FOSS OPTION
Application Commercial software FOSS option
Operating System Windows, OS X, Solaris Linux (RedHat, Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian
etc)Free / Open / Net BSD, Minix, etc.
UI Manager Windows UI, Finder, Openview KDE, Gnome, IceWM, Windowmaker
Networking NAT (Router), iptables (Firewall), Snort (IDS),
Nmap (port mapper), Ethereal, Dsniff (sniffer tools),
OpenSSH, OpenSSL (Communication Tunnel),
SAMBA (File Server), CUPS (Print Server)
Distributed Computing Cray Beowulf , Mosix, PVM, MPI, MOSIX, NAMD
Database Tools Oracle, Microsoft SQL MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, druid, GNUdata
Web Applications IIS, Personal Webserver Apache, Tomcat (Webserver), Sendmail (mail
server), BIND (DNS Server), Squid (Proxy server).
Enterprise Applications EZPublish, Smart, PostNuke.
UML Rational Rose Eclipse
Browser Tools IE, Safari, Opera Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon, Netscape, Konqueror.
Desktop Applications Jabber, Mplayer, Xine (Multimedia), GIMP,
Dia (Graphics), LinuxCAD, VariCAD (CAD),
Acrobat, Xpdf, Ghostview (PDF/PS)
Scientific Applications Matlab, Maple, Mathematica SciLab, Octave, GNU Plot, Singular, ORSA,
Potnia, Maxima, Axiom, Pari, GPS, LAPACK,
LINPACK, Gstat
Bioinformatics & BLAST, EMBOSS, COG, InterPro, Genesis,
Computational Biology ECELL, Rasmol, Argus Labs, ImageJ,
System Biology workbench, VMD, XCOSM
Office Applications Microsoft office suite, Open Office, Koffice, Abi Word, Mr Project,
WordPerfect Suite, ixx GNU Cash, PS Slides. Presenter, Magic point,
Gnumeric,Gnuledger,Oleo,Qhacc,
Sharp tools spreadsheet
Mail clients Microsoft outlook GNUmail, Kmail, Pygmy
Personal information Boob, evolution
manager
Address book Windows address book kalarm, Multiuser address management system/book,
rubrica
Calendar iCal Acal, active calendar, pcal
Project manager Gforge, Savane, cuteflow
Web Development PHP, Perl, Netbeans, Aspire, Jflash, Free Pascal.
OpenCA, Open VPN, Open L2TP,
VPN Dialer (IPSec), Axcrypt, Network Security
Toolkit (NST), Snort, OpenNMS, nessus (in OSSIM),
INSERT, Trinux, jGuard, NSAT.
Content Management Vignette, Interwoven Plone, CMS, Nucleus CMS, A Tutor, PHPNuke
System
Publishing Latex, MathML, XML, OpenJade, Scribus,
SodiPodi, Inkscape. Doxygen,TexMacs
Software development Microsoft visual studio, Xcode GCC, Java, FORTRAN, Perl, Python,
Ruby, Lisp, Ocaml, Glade, Qt
Wireless ZoneCD, Wellenreiter, AirSnort, AirJack,
Tiny OS (sensor n/w’s), Prism Stumbler, AirTraf.
Electronic Design GEDA, tkgate, Gaphor, Pcb, PIPE (petrinets),
Automation (EDA) Xcircuit, GTKWave, EngyCAD, Icarus Verilog,
ViPEC, Alliance, Darwin2K, HDLMaker.
Project Tracking / Achievo, Gforge, Savannah, CVS,
Management Subversion, Bugzilla, Gnats
Market Research / Data CCOUNT
Analysis
Data Visualisation Flounder, Gri, ImLib3D, Vis5D.
ECommerce DotGNU, Goldwater, Bidwatcher, TCLink,
Interchange, etc.
Geography Intergraph GRASS, GDAL, DGPS, GpsDrive, GPStk,
Height Map Generator, RoadMap, Thuban.
Entertainment Windows mediaplayer, winamp. Xine, xmms, fftv, Kplayer
Graphics Photoshop,3d studio max Gimp, Artofillusion, Ayam,Blender