'Desktop stuff' What do you all use? I need to know! Mostly I just do web browsing (mozilla), email (pine), irc (xchat), listen to music (xmms), and work on various web pages (joe :). I've also played with openoffice but I don't really do the kind of stuff that requires it (and the fbsd version is pants). -- zcat
Would it not make more sense to consider tasks instead of specific Windows applications? For example, my parents only ever used their copy of Microsoft Office to view Word documents they had been sent via e-mail. When they switched to Linux, they did not need clones of MicrosoftExcel, Word, !PowerPoint?, and Access. All they needed was an application that allows them to view Word documents. See 
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1934259 for an example of a task-oriented table. -- MatthiasDallmeier
|^Windows Equivalent|^Linux Software|^Notes
|vvvvv Internet Explorer|Mozilla|MozillaNotes and 1?
| MozillaFirefox | also available for Windows
| Opera | also available for Windows
| Konqueror | 3?
| links | 4?
| Lynx | 4?
|vvvvvv Microsoft OutlookExpress|MozillaMail|1?
| Evolution |2?
| Pine | 4?
| Mutt | 4?
| KMail | 3?
| Sylpheed | 2?
| MozillaThunderbird |
|vvv mIRC | XChat | 2?
| epic | 4?
| BitchX | 4?
| irssi | 4?
|vvvv Winamp | xmms |
| zinf | Zinf is not Freeamp
| beep |
| rhythmbox |
| MPlayer |
|vvvvvv Microsoft Word | AbiWord | 2?
| OpenOffice Writer |
| LyX | 6?
| Kate | 3?
| vim / gvim | 5?
| GNU / X emacs | 5?
| LaTeX | 6?
|vv Microsoft Powerpoint | OpenOffice Impress |
| MagicPoint |
| Prosper (LaTeX) | 6?
|v MicrosoftExcel | Gnumeric | 2? Gnumeric doesn't support VBA, you can use Python/Perl/TCL etc for scripting if required. It does however support all the spreadsheet functions that MicrosoftExcel has, as well as a hundred or so more.
|OpenOffice calc | OpenOffice has a VBA style reimplementation
|vvv Microsoft SQL Server | PostgreSQL | 1?
| MySQL | 1?
| FireBird | 1?
| SQLite | 1?
| Adobe Photoshop | TheGIMP | 2?
| Macromedia Freehand | Sodipodi |
| Sound editor | Audacity | 2?
| VisualBasic
VisualC++
C# | GnuEnterprise?
Python
Perl
Java
C/C++
Scheme
TCL/Tk | See 
Category:ProgrammingLanguages
|vvvvvvv VisualStudio | GCC | gcc(1) is a compiler, not an IDE
| emacs | Emacs is an IDE not a compiler
| IDLE, Eric | IDLE and Eric are Python IDEs
| Make | make(1) provides a project/building framework for applications
| KDevelop | KDE-oriented IDE
| Anjuta | GNOME-oriented IDE
| NetBeans? | Java based IDE
| Eclipse |
|vv MicroSoftDeveloperNetwork | ManPages? | For documentation on commands, library calls and system calls
| Google | To find web pages which talk about specific problems
| UseNet | To ask specific questions
|v Dos Box | xterm(1) |
| konsole |
|vv Command.com / CMD.exe | bash(1)
| tcsh(1) | CshProgrammingConsideredHarmful
| BusyBox
|vv MSN | Gaim | 2?
| Gabber
| kopete| 3?
| IIS | Apache | 1?
| Firewalling / NAT | iptables(8) |
| Microsoft Access / FileMaker? Pro or similar | OpenOffice base | OpenOffice 2.0 has database front end.
| Family Tree Maker / Legacy| Gramps| Genealogy software
|v Frontpage / Dreamweaver | Quanta | 3?
| Screem| 2?
1? The Linux software is generally considered much more secure. 2? This is a GNOME/GTK application 3? This is a KDE/Qt application 4? This is a command line or terminal program 5? They may not be WYSIWYG editors but they are still perfectly fine for most things 6? LaTeX is a typesetting language, not an editor. It produces the desired result (in many cases better than the MS equivalent), but in most cases you need to use a text editor (like gvim) to 'write' the document. You can use LyX to write documents in a near WYSIWYG style -- Perry Lorier
