Sunday, January 10, 2010

Windows and Linux programs run on both

I've put together a list of some open source programs
that run on both Linux and Windows. I did this for
those who might be on the fence about trying Linux.

Hopefully, this will make your transition easier
since you've had a chance to run these programs
on Windows.

This list isn't random, these are programs
that I currently use or have tried and all in
stable versions.

Miro - video player and podcast client, iTunes-ish
http://www.getmiro.com/download/for-windows/

KompoZer
- WYSIWYG html editor
http://www.kompozer.net/

KDE - GUI desktop project for many standalone
applications and smaller projects
http://windows.kde.org/

Konqueror - Web Browser packaged only with KDE
http://www.konqueror.org/

AbiWord - Microsoft Word
http://www.abisource.com/

VideoLAN
- Media Player video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS,
MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...)
Physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD).
http://www.videolan.org/

GIMP
- (GNU) Graphic Image Manipulation Program, Photoshop
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

PeaZip - file and archive manager ZIP, RAR, TAR ISO,
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/index.html

Portable Ubuntu Remix is an Ubuntu system running as a
Windows application Linux OS.
http://portableubuntu.demonccc.com.ar/

Wingrep - Advanced searching for Windows
http://www.wingrep.com/

Vim - is a highly configurable text editor built
to enable efficient text editing.
http://www.vim.org/

http://www.cheat-sheets.org/#Vi

One thing that frustrates users at a command line is
remembering what to enter to get things going.
Vim & Wingrep will serve you better if you understand
regular expressions.
http://www.cheat-sheets.org/#RegularExpressions

regex-cheatsheet.pdf

I think I forgotten more about computers than what I can remember.

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