Software/program comparison help

[david]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 01:18 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote:
> amigian wrote:
> > Hello all. New to this list and to Ubuntu, and Linux in general. 
> > I am a graphic designer and would like to start using Linux, 
> > I would like to know what Linux programs are out there 
>  > that are comparative to Windoze programs.
> > For example, to name only a few, Photoshop, 
> gimp
> 
> > Illustrator, Dreamweaver, 
> nothing as good yet, see NVU (mozilla composer derivative)
> 
> > InDesign, P2P Apps, 
> kmldonkey (ed2k, mule family), amule, azureus (bittorrent)
> 
> > Password saving program, 
> kwallet for kde
> 
> > RAR/Zip, 
> usually integrated in the OS (ark, ...), .zip format; unrar;
> tar.gz is for preserving permissions on files for backups
> 
> > Security software, etc. And anything else anyone can think of..
> web: firefox
> email: thunderbird
> chat: gaim
> ip-telephony: skype, ...
> dvd player: xine, vlc
> cd/dvd burner: k3b
> p2p: kmldonkey, amule
> word editor: openoffice
> text editor with multi line search/replace: ??
> image editor: gimp
> html editor: nvu, quanta
> ftp: kbear
> pdf viewer: xpdf
> pdf editor: ?   (pdftohtml)
> calculator/unit converter: ?
> installer: synaptic
> games: flight simulator: fgfs
> 

Small fast word processor for older systems : Abiword
Delightfully fast word processor for newer machines : Abiword
Microsoft Project Manager : mrproject
Wall Street standard spreadsheet : gnumeric
Microsoft Publisher/Pagemaker: scribus
Video Editing : cinelerra, cinepaint, kino, enlive, avidemux
Cubase : ardour (sort of)

The link to the table of Windows vs Linux equivalent apps is very out of
date.
For future reference,
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
Here's a more up-to-date one. Though it needs adding to still.

regards

David