Open Source Alternative

Open Source Alternative

Business / Office
Commercial Software	Open Source Replacement
Microsoft Office Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft Money	OpenOffice.org (Win, Linux, OS X) Abiword (Win, Linux, OS X) Gnumeric (Win, Linux) Grisbi (Win, Linux)
Graphic
ACDSee	Imgv (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X) Cornice (Win, Linux)
Adobe After Effects	Jahshaka (Win, Linux, OS X)
Adobe FrameMaker QuarkXPress	Scribus (Win, Linux, OS X) KWord (Linux, BSD)
Adobe Illustrator Corel Draw	Inkscape (Win, Linux, OS X) Skencil (Linux) Xara Xtreme for Linux (Linux, BSD, OS X)
Adobe Photoshop Corel Paint Shop Pro	GIMP (Win, Linux, OS X) CinePaint (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X) Paint.NET (Win) Krita (Linux, BSD)
Adobe Premiere Microsoft Movie Maker	Avidemux (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X) VirtualDub (Win) Cinelerra (Linux) Kino (Linux)
Anime Studio Toon Boom Studio	KToon (Linux) Synfig (Linux, OS X)
Autodesk 3ds Max Autodesk Maya	Blender (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X)
Autodesk AutoCAD	QCad (Win, Linux, OS X) BRL-CAD (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X)
Corel Trace	Potrace (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X)
Adobe Flash Professional	OpenLaszlo (Win, Linux, OS X) IMPRESS (Win, Linux)
Macromedia Freehand MX	Inkscape (Win, Linux, OS X) Skencil (Linux) Karbon (Linux, BSD)
Microsoft Publisher	DRAW (Win, Linux, OS X) Scribus (Win, Linux, OS X)
Microsoft Visio	Dia (Win, Linux) ArgoUML (Win, Linux) DRAW (Win, Linux, OS X) Kivio (Linux, BSD) StarUML (Win)
Pixar RenderMan	Blender (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X) Pixie (Win, Linux, OS X)
Internet / Networking
Check Point VPN-1	OpenVPN (Win)
Citrix Presentation Server and Microsoft Remote Desktop for Windows	Vine Server (OS X)
CommView	Wireshark (Win, Linux, OS X)
CuteFTP WS_FTP Professional	FileZilla (Win) WinSCP (Win) Cyberduck (OS X)
FeedDemon	RSSOwl (Win, Linux, OS X) Mozilla’s Thunderbird (Win, Linux, OS X)
HP OpenView Network Node Manager	OpenNMS (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X) NeDi (Win, Linux) Nagios (Linux) Pandora FMS (Win, Linux)
ICQ MSN Messenger	Pidgin (Win, Linux) Miranda IM (Win) Adium (OS X) Psi (Win, Linux, OS X)
Microsoft Internet Explorer	Firefox (Win, Linux, OS X) SeaMonkey (Win, Linux, OS X)
Microsoft Internet Information Services	Apache HTTP Server (Win, Linux)
Microsoft Outlook	Thunderbird (Win, Linux, OS X) SeaMonkey (Win, Linux, OS X) Evolution (Linux)
Microsoft FrontPage	NVU (Win, Linux, OS X)
mIRC	XChat (Win, Linux)
Skype	WengoPhone (Win, Linux, OS X)
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall	WIPFW (Win)
VanDyke SecureCRT	PuTTY (Win, Linux) Poderosa (Win)
Multimedia
Adobe Audition	Audacity (Win, Linux, OS X) Ardour (Linux, OS X)
Adobe EncoreDVD	DVDStyler (Win, Linux)
iTunes Windows Media Player Winamp	Songbird (Win, Linux, OS X) musikCube (Win) Banshee (Linux) Amarok (Linux)
PowerDVD WinDVD	MPlayer (Win, Linux, OS X) VLC media player (Win, Linux, OS X)
Fraps	Taksi (Win)
Windows XP Media Center Edition	MediaPortal (Win) MythTV (Linux, OS X) Freevo (Win, Linux, OS X)
Nero Recode	HandBrake (Win, Linux, OS X)
Steinberg Cubase	Rosegarden (Linux) Ardour (Linux, OS X)
Security / Privacy
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal Symantec Norton AntiVirus	ClamWin (Win) Clam AntiVirus (Win, Linux, BSD) Winpooch (Win)
Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE	Winpooch (Win) Spybot Search & Destroy (Win)
PGP Whole Disk Encryption	TrueCrypt (Win, Linux)
Other Tools and Utilities
Adobe Acrobat Reader	Sumatra PDF (Win) Xpdf (Linux)
Camtasia Studio Macromedia Captivate	xvidcap (Linux, BSD) CamStudio (Win)
Macrovision InstallShield	Inno Setup (Win) Launch4j (Win, Linux, OS X) NSIS (Win)
Nero Burning Rom Roxio RecordNow	InfraRecorder (Win) Burn (OS X) Cdrdao (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X) K3b (Linux)
Symantec Norton Ghost	g4u (Win) Partimage (Linux)
Symantec Veritas NetBackup	AMANDA (Linux, BSD, OS X) Bacula (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X)
UltraEdit-32	Notepad++ (Win) jEdit (Win, Linux, OS X) SciTE (Win)
WinRAR WinZip	7-Zip (Win, Linux, BSD, OS X)

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