The Linux Alternative Project - Linux Solutions alternate to windows applications

Welcome to the Linux Alternative Project (formerly the Linux Equivalent Project). Goal is to provide an informational website available to all linux users.

The website is currently in beta form and it will periodically update the database with Windows software and the Linux equivalents and alternatives.

Alternatives

3D Home Architect	Sweet Home 3D (http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/index.html)
3D Studio Max	Art of Illusion (http://www.artofillusion.org/) Blender (http://www.blender.org/) K-3D (http://www.k-3d.org/) Wings 3D (http://www.wings3d.com/)
ACDSee	Eye of GNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/) Geeqie (http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/) GQview (http://gqview.sourceforge.net/) Gwenview (http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/) KuickShow (http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net/) ShowImg (http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/)
Adobe Acrobat Reader	ePDFView (http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/) Evince (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/) okular (http://okular.kde.org/) Xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)
Adobe Audition	Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
Adobe Illustrator	Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) sK1 Project (http://ww.sk1project.org/) Skencil (http://www.skencil.org/) Xara Xtreme for Linux (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/)
Adobe Lightroom	Darktable (http://darktable.sourceforge.net/)
Adobe PageMaker	Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/)
Adobe Photoshop	CinePaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/) GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
Ant Movie Catalog	Moviefly (https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lmc/)
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)	Instantbird (http://instantbird.com/) Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) Pidgin (http://pidgin.im) PSI (http://psi-im.org/)
APC PowerChute	Apcupsd (http://www.apcupsd.com/) Network UPS Tools (http://www.networkupstools.org/) PowerD (http://power.sourceforge.net/)
Collectorz	Alexandria (http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/) aviManager (http://avimanager.sourceforge.net/) GCstar (http://www.gcstar.org/) Griffith (http://griffith.cc/) Katalog (http://salvaste.altervista.org/) Tellico (http://tellico-project.org/) vMovieDB (http://vmoviedb.sourceforge.net/)
DAMN NFO Viewer	NFO Viewer (http://home.gna.org/nfoview/)
DVDShrink	AcidRip (http://untrepid.com/acidrip/) dvd::rip (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/) k9copy (http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/) OGMRip (http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/) qVamps (http://vamps.sourceforge.net/) Thoggen (http://thoggen.net/) xdvdshrink (http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/)
Ecco Pro	BasKet (http://basket.kde.org/) Chandler (http://chandlerproject.org/) QuickFox Notes (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13572/) Tomboy (http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/) Zim (http://zim-wiki.org/)
Everest	HardInfo (http://hardinfo.berlios.de/web/HomePage)
FL Studio	Ardour (http://www.ardour.org) Jokosher (http://www.jokosher.org/) LMMS (http://lmms.sourceforge.net/)
Fontographer	FontForge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/)
foobar2000	Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/) Aqualung (http://aqualung.factorial.hu/misc.html) aTunes (http://www.atunes.org/) Banshee (http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page) Decibel Auto Player (http://decibel.silent-blade.org/) Exaile (http://www.exaile.org/) gmusicbrowser (http://gmusicbrowser.org/) gtkpod (http://www.gtkpod.org/) Listen (http://listengnome.free.fr/) minitunes (http://flavio.tordini.org/minitunes) Quod Libet (http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/) Rhythmbox (http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/)
Forte Agent	Pan (http://pan.rebelbase.com/)
Fraps	recordMyDesktop (http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/) Yukon (https://github.com/wereHamster/yukon/)
FreeRIP	Grip (http://nostatic.org/grip/) KAudioCreator (http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator) ripperX (http://ripperx.sourceforge.net/) Rubyripper (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper) Sound Juicer (http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer)
FruityLoops	Hydrogen (http://www.hydrogen-music.org/)
Google Desktop Search	Beagle (http://beagle-project.org/) Google Desktop (http://desktop.google.com/linux/index.html)
Google Earth	Earth 3D (http://www.earth3d.org/) Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble/)
Guitar Pro	DGuitar (http://dguitar.sourceforge.net/) kguitar (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kguitar/) TuxGuitar (http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/home.html)
iView MediaPro	digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/) F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page) flPhoto (http://www.easysw.com/~mike/flphoto/) gThumb (http://live.gnome.org/gthumb/) jBrout (http://jbrout.manatlan.com/) KPhotoAlbum (http://www.kphotoalbum.org/) Shotwell (http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/)
Legacy Family Tree	GRAMPS (http://gramps-project.org/)
LimeWire	FrostWire (http://www.frostwire.com/)
Meal Master	Gourmet Recipe Manager (http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/) krecipe (http://krecipes.sourceforge.net/)
Microsoft Access	GNOME-DB (http://www.gnome-db.org/) knoda (http://www.knoda.org)
Microsoft Excel	Gnumeric (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/) Open Calc (http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html)
Microsoft Frontpage	Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html) BlueGriffon (http://bluegriffon.org/) Geany (http://geany.uvena.de) KompoZer (http://www.kompozer.net/) Nvu (http://www.nvu.com/) Quanta Plus (http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/) Screem (http://www.screem.org/)
Microsoft HyperTerminal	GtkTerm (http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkterm/) minicom (http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/)
Microsoft Internet Explorer	Epiphany (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/) Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org/) Opera (http://www.opera.com/download/)
Microsoft Office	GNOME Office (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/) OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/)
Microsoft Outlook (Express)	Evolution (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/) Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/)
Microsoft Powerpoint	EASE Presentation Editor (http://www.ease-project.org/index.html) Open Office Impress (http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html)
Microsoft Project	GanttProject (http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/) OpenProj (http://openproj.org/openproj) Planner (http://live.gnome.org/Planner) TaskJuggler (http://www.taskjuggler.org/)
Microsoft Visio	Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/)
Microsoft Windows Media Center	Boxee (http://www.boxee.tv/) Freevo (http://freevo.sourceforge.net/) LinuxMCE (http://www.linuxmce.com/) Moovida (http://www.moovida.com) MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org) XBMC Media Center (http://xbmc.org/)
Microsoft Word	AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) Open Office Writer (http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html)
mIRC	BitchX (http://www.bitchx.org/) ChatZilla! (http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/) irssi (http://www.irssi.org/) Konversation (http://konversation.kde.org/) KVIrc (http://www.kvirc.net/) Pidgin (http://pidgin.im) Xchat (http://www.xchat.org/)
Mp3tag	Audio Tag Tool (http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/) Cowbell (http://more-cowbell.org/) EasyTAG (http://easytag.sourceforge.net/) Kid3 (http://kid3.sourceforge.net/) Pinkytagger (http://pinkytagger.sourceforge.net/)
MS Paint	KolourPaint (http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/) Pencil (http://www.pencil-animation.org/) Pinta (http://pinta-project.com/) TuxPaint (http://tuxpaint.org/)
MSN messenger	aMSN (http://amsn-project.net/) Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) Mercury Messenger (http://www.mercury.to/) Pidgin (http://pidgin.im)
Mudbox	SharpConstruct (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharp3d/)
Nero Burning Rom	Brasero (http://perso.orange.fr/bonfire/index.htm) GnomeBaker (http://gnomebaker.sourceforge.net/) Graveman! (http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/) K3b (http://www.k3b.org/) X-CD-Roast (http://www.xcdroast.org/)
NetMeeting	Ekiga (http://www.gnomemeeting.org/)
NetStumbler	Kismet (http://www.kismetwireless.net/) SWScanner (http://www.swscanner.org/)
NewzCrawler	Akregator (http://akregator.kde.org/) BasKet (http://basket.kde.org/) Blam (http://www.cmartin.tk/blam.html) Liferea (http://liferea.sourceforge.net/) RSSOwl (http://www.rssowl.org/) Straw (http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/)
Notepad	gedit (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/) jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) Kate (http://kate-editor.org/) leafpad (http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/) NEdit (http://www.nedit.org/) Scribes (http://scribes.sourceforge.net/) tpad (http://tclpad.sourceforge.net/)
OrangeCD Catalog	GWhere (http://www.gwhere.org)
Origin	SciGraphica (http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net/)
Partition Magic	GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) Palimpsest (http://library.gnome.org/users/palimpsest/) Partimage (http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page) QtParted (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net)
PhotoME	FotoTagger (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fototagger/)
Quicken	Gnofin (http://gnofin.sourceforge.net/) GNUcash (http://www.gnucash.org/) Grisbi (http://www.grisbi.org/) HomeBank (http://homebank.free.fr/) KMyMoney (http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/) Skrooge (http://skrooge.org/)
Sibelius	Brahms (http://brahms.sourceforge.net/) Denemo (http://denemo.sourceforge.net/index.html) Lilypond (http://www.lilypond.org) MuseScore (http://musescore.org/) NoteEdit (http://noteedit.berlios.de/) Rosegarden (http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/)
SoulSeek	Nicotine (http://nicotine.thegraveyard.org/) Nicotine-Plus (http://nicotine-plus.sourceforge.net/)
SoundForge	ReZound (http://rezound.sourceforge.net/)
Total Commander	GNOME Commander (http://www.nongnu.org/gcmd/) Krusader (http://krusader.sourceforge.net/) Midnight Commander (http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/) Tux Commander (http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/) xfe (http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/)
Traktor DJ	Mixxx (http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/) terminatorX (http://www.terminatorx.org/)
TweetDeck	Choqok (http://choqok.gnufolks.org/) Gwibber (http://gwibber.com/) Pino (http://pino-app.appspot.com/)
uTorrent	qBittorrent (http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/) Transmission (http://www.transmissionbt.com/)
Videora	thin liquid film (http://thinliquidfilm.org/)
Winamp	Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/) Audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org/Main_Page) XMMS (http://www.xmms.org/)
Windows Media Player	KPlayer (http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/) mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html) VLC Player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) xine (http://xinehq.de/)
Windows Movie Maker	cinefx (http://www.cinefx.org/) Cinelerra (http://cvs.cinelerra.org/) Kdenlive (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/) Kino (http://www.kinodv.org/) LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net/) Lombard (http://yorba.org/lombard/) Open Movie Editor (http://www.openmovieeditor.org/) OpenShot (http://www.openshotvideo.com/) PiTiVi (http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page) VideoLAN Movie Creator (http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/)
WinIso	KIso (http://kiso.sourceforge.net/)
WinMerge	KDiff3 (http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/) Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/) Meld (http://meld.sourceforge.net/) xxdiff (http://furius.ca/xxdiff/)
WinTV	KWinTV (http://www.kwintv.org/) tvtime (http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/) xawtv (http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/) XdTV (http://xawdecode.sourceforge.net/) Zapping (http://zapping.sourceforge.net/Zapping/index.html)
WS_FTP	FireFTP (http://fireftp.mozdev.org/) gFTP (http://gftp.seul.org/)
ZoneAlarm	Firestarter (http://www.fs-security.com/) Guarddog (http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/)
Zscreen	Shutter (http://shutter-project.org/)

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