Microsoft Windows 95 - LINUX ANALOGY list

MICROSOFT Windows 95 - LINUX ANALOGY LIST

	LINUX (UNIX) is a 100% POSIX compliant operating system 
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	100% POSIX compliance is required by U.S. Govt. on OS
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Linux applications are at :
	http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html

Note: Some of the packages listed below are commercial and others  are on the Linux cdrom.

Microsoft Windows for linux : Linux has WABI, WINE, VNC packages which

        runs all MS Windows 3.1, Win32 programs inside linux window!

MSDOS for linux : Linux has Dr. DOS from http://www.caldera.com which

	runs all DOS programs inside a linux window!! 
	See also DosEmu (DOS-Emulator) package

Microsoft SQLserver (RDBMS Database) : Linux has these databases - 
	PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org 
	(see Database-PostgreSQL-HOWTO on cdrom)
	Oracle RDBMS - see http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Oracle-HOWTO.html
	MySQL - http://www.tcx.se  (from Sweden)
	Solid - http://www.solidtech.com  (from Finland)
	Addabas - http://www.adabas.com (from Germany)
	YardSQL - http://www.yard.de (from Germany)
	Empress - http://www.empress.com (from U.S.)
	Interbase - http://www.interbase.com (from Borland Corp)

Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets : Linux has TeaPot, WingZ and NeXS.

Microsoft Win95 Desktop : Linux has KDE - http://www.kde.org

	Lesstiff - A industry standard Motif tool and Windows,
	Afterstep, Windowmaker (NeXTstep-lookalike),
	QVwm, fvwm95 (Win95-lookalike), amiwm (amiga), mlvwm (mac) etc.

Microsoft Internet Web server: Linux has Apache, Roxen Challenger, 
	Netscape Fasttrack, Sun Microsystem's Java Web server.

Microsoft Internet Explorer: Linux has Netscape browser/communicator, LynX,

        Kfm (KDE Filemanager), Mosaic, Amaya, Arena, Sun Microsystem Hotjava, etc.

Microsoft Win32 connectivity : Linux has SAMBA,

        and Netware connectivity with MARS-NWE.

Microsoft Word : Linux has Wordperfect 7.0, LyX, xdvi, XWord,

	Adobe Acrobat reader, FrameMaker, LaTex, SGML Tools,
	Jade, JadeTex, Maxwell.

Microsoft Office suite: Linux has StarOffice suite (from Germany), 
	ApplixWare office suites, Coreldraw suites, SGML, Jade. 

Microsoft Visual Basic: Linux has VisualTCL, SpecTCL

Microsoft Visual C++ : Linux has QT application framework C++ QtEZ,

	VIBE, Code Crusader, WipeOut, RHIDE, C-Forge
	XWPE - X Windows programming environment, XEmacs,
	Gnome, GNU C Compiler (C, C++, Objective-C) 

Microsoft Exchange (Mail server): Linux has Sendmail, qmail, smail,
	exim, exmh package (mail-user-agent)

Microsoft JAVA : Linux has Java IDE "FreeBuilder", JccWarrior, Wipeout,
	Vibe, SunMicrosystem Java Workshop for Linux

Microsoft Mail/Lotus CCMAIL : Linux has ZMail, exmh, umt, xfmail, 
	kmail, xmh, xcmail, soma, privtool, etc..

Microsoft Scheduler/Personal productivity tools: See the Personal productivity

        Tools at http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/linuxapps/linapps.html

Microsoft Notepad/Wordpad : Linux has CRisp, vi, NEdit, Jed, EMACS, Joe,

        Elvis and several hundreds more... on cdrom

Microsoft Desktop Publishing : Linux has SGML tools, LaTex, Jade,

        JadeTex, FrameMaker, Corel office, Applixware, StarOffice.

AutoCAD CAD package: Linux has AC3D package at

        http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ac3d.html

Adobe Photoshop : Linux has GIMP at http://www.gimp.org and also on linux cdrom

Intersolv PVCS (Source Code Control System): Linux has RCS and CVS SCCS.

Progamming languages : Linux has C, C++, Java, Lisp, Fortran, Perl,

	Python, Pascal, Intel X86 assembler, awk, sed, korn shell, zsh, 
	bash, Tcl/Tk, Prolog, Rexx, Smalltalk, SQL, yacc, flex and
	hundreds more on cdrom.

Computer Games : Linux has Hundreds of computer games like chess, doom..
	on linux cdrom

Buy Linux cdrom (prices starts from $5 goes upto $400 U.S. dollars) from -

	http://www.lsl.com
	http://www.cheapbytes.com
	http://linuxcentral.com/
	http://www.linuxmall.com/
	http://www.redhat.com
	http://www.suse.com
	http://www.caldera.com

A single linux cdrom contains more than 1500 software packages! Purchase a Intel/AMD/Cyrix box for $600 (without microsoft windows/DOS) from the local computer hardware store and save $200 by avoiding Microsoft Windows! There are local hardware stores who sell bare computer hardware only WITHOUT any pre-loaded software or mail-order hardware without any MS Windows.

Try Linux once. You will become a die hard Linux fan!!!! Received on Mon Mar 23 1998 - 00:00:00 CST