

Non-free software (open source or relatively free, but have certain restrictive limits) is marked with the sign. Proprietary software for Linux is marked with the sign.
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(Definitions of Free Software: FSF and Debian). All comments, remarks, corrections, offers and bugreports are welcome - send them to .ġ) By default all Linux programs in this table are free as in freedom. If you want to add a program to the table, send mail to with the name of the program, the OS, the description (the purpose of the program, etc), and a link to the official site of the program (if you know it).

In future, we plan to migrate this table to the PHP/MySQL engine, so visitors could add the program themselves, vote for analogs, add comments, etc. Also, the right column for a particular class of applications may not be filled immediately. This table is not static since new application names can be added to both left and the right sides. This list of Linux equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software is based on our own experience and on the information obtained from the visitors of this page (thanks!). Newbies usually search for Linux analogs of Windows software, and advanced Linux-users cannot answer their questions since they often don't know too much about Windows :). One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. This page on other languages: Russian, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, You can always find the last version of this table on the official site: The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.
