162 CHAPTER 11 UBUNTU REPLACEMENTS FOR WINDOWS (Web host sites)
162 CHAPTER 11 UBUNTU REPLACEMENTS FOR WINDOWS PROGRAMS Table 11-1. Linux Alternatives to Windows Software Type of Program Windows Ubuntu Alternative Choices Word processor Microsoft Word OpenOffice.org Writer AbiWord (www.abisource.com), KOffice KWord (www.koffice.org/ kword) Spreadsheet Microsoft Excel OpenOffice.org Calc Gnumeric (www.gnome.org/projects/ gnumeric/), KOffice KSpread (www.koffice.org/kspread) Presentations Microsoft PowerPoint OpenOffice.org Impress KOffice KPresenter (www.koffice.org/kpresenter) Drawing (vector art) Adobe Illustrator OpenOffice.org Draw Inkscape (www.inkscape.org), KOffice Karbon14 (www.koffice.org/karbon) Database Microsoft Access OpenOffice.org Base Rekall (www.thekompany.com/ products/rekall/) Web page creation Microsoft FrontPage OpenOffice.org Writer Mozilla Composer (www.mozilla.com), Amaya (www.w3.org/Amaya/) E-mail Microsoft Outlook Evolution Mozilla Thunderbird KMail (http://kmail.kde.org) Contacts manager/ calendar Microsoft Outlook Evolution Kontact (www.kontact.org) Web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Konqueror (www.konqueror.org), Opera (www.opera.com)1 CD/DVD burning Nero Nautilus2 K3B (www.k3b.org), X-CD-Roast (www.xcdroast.org) MP3 player Winamp Rhythmbox XMMS (www.xmms.org), Banshee (http://banshee-project.org) CD player Windows Media Player CD Player XMMS (www.xmms.org), AlsaPlayer (www.alsaplayer.org) Movie/DVD player Windows Media Player Totem Media Player MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu/ homepage/) Image editor Adobe Photoshop The Gimp KOffice Krita (www.koffice.org/ krita) Zip files WinZip Archive Manager TkZip (www.woodsway.com/TkZip/) MS-DOS prompt cmd.exe/command.exe GNOME Terminal Xterm (www.x.org)3 Calculator Calc GCalcTool Too many to mention!