| Commercial | Open source | Exists on Windows? |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator (~$500) | Inkscape | Yes |
| Adobe InDesign (~$700) | Scribus | Yes |
| Adobe Photoshop (~$600) | The GIMP | Yes |
| Adobe Premiere (~$800) | Kino, Cinelerra | No |
| Adobe Reader (free) | Evince, Kpdf, GV | No |
| Apple iTunes (free) | AmaroK, Rhythmbox, Banshee | No |
| Autodesk 3ds Max (~$3500) | Blender | Yes |
| Autodesk Maya (~$7000) | Blender | Yes |
| Kazaa (free) | aMule, eMule | Yes |
| Microsoft Excel (~$200) | OpenOffice Spreadsheet | Yes |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer (free) | Firefox, Konqueror | Yes |
| Microsoft Office (~$400) | OpenOffice | Yes |
| Microsoft Outlook (free) | Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail | Yes |
| Microsoft Powerpoint (~$200) | OpenOffice Presentation | Yes |
| Microsoft Windows Media Player (free) | Mplayer, VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine | Yes |
| Microsoft Word (~$200) | OpenOffice Word Processor | Yes |
| MSN Messenger (free) | Pidgin, Kopete, aMSN | Yes |
| Nero (~$100) | K3b, Gnomebaker | No |
| Palm Desktop (free) | Gnome-Pilot, KPilot | No |
| Quark XPress (~$800) | Scribus | Yes |
| QuickTime Player (free) | Mplayer, VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine | Yes |
| Winamp (free) | AmaroK, Rhythmbox, Banshee | No |
14 April, 2008
Go Free for Legal :
Here's a list of some commercial software, and their open source equivalents :
Why is LINUX better?
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>Tired of restarting all the time?
>GET a LIFE !
>THE MOST STABLE OS's OUT THERE ARE LINUX BASED!!
>Dont pay $300 for your OS
>FREEDOM as in FREE
>Almost no fragmentation of your disk! This results in max performance!
>Tired of restarting all the time?
>GET a LIFE !
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yaw ppl. Im writing this form within openSUSE 10.3 and I gotta admit, this OS ROCKS!!! Its got everything of what you would expect in windows - the piracy !!
> A gr8 office suite (http://openoffice.org)
> Easy YaST installations, easier than Windows Setup!!
>An intuitive interface that hides the underlying power, yet doesnt compromise flexibility
>Very easy to use even for a novice XP user!
> NOT hard on resources. You can run this OS with 128 megs of RAM!
> Wine compatible. That means, you can run all your Windows games, apps from within Linux!!
> A gr8 office suite (http://openoffice.org)
> Easy YaST installations, easier than Windows Setup!!
>An intuitive interface that hides the underlying power, yet doesnt compromise flexibility
>Very easy to use even for a novice XP user!
> NOT hard on resources. You can run this OS with 128 megs of RAM!
> Wine compatible. That means, you can run all your Windows games, apps from within Linux!!
