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Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:47 pm
by blueXrider
not a bad beginners list however it needs to be updated

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:53 pm
by .William.
I'd add Karbon from the Calligra Suite as alternative to Microsoft Publisher. I find it easier to work with then Scribus. It supports Vector and is under active development. The Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE created from KOffice in 2010.

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:37 pm
by Pilosopong Tasyo
.William. wrote:I'd add Karbon from the Calligra Suite as alternative to Microsoft Publisher. I find it easier to work with then Scribus. It supports Vector and is under active development. The Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE created from KOffice in 2010.
Karbon is a vector-graphics application primarily used for making illustrations (drawings). It's akin to Inkscape and the Windows analogue is CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator.

Scribus, OTOH, is a Desktop Publishing (DTP) application, geared more for laying out pages for printing or reading (e.g. newspapers, magazines, certificates, et. al.), and contains a mixture of text and graphical elements (but more on text, usually). Windows analogue to Scribus include Microsoft Publisher, Adobe PageMaker and InDesign.

Although they are related to each other, both illustration and DTP applications have some degree of differences. I use both, BTW, depending on the kind of work done:

Inkscape - for illustrations, drawings, clipart, etc.
Scribus - for page layouts/desktop publishing

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 12:36 pm
by nextdistroplease
As a noob to Linux, about 6 months, I think I can say that "tar" is the perfect alternative to backup software.

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:34 pm
by HaploVoss
My favorite Video editing / VJ system for linux:

http://lives.sourceforge.net/

Not sure why I rarely see this anywhere. It is very robust, I never have problems with it. If it does break after an update it gets fixed.
Love it, use it, abuse it. :)
- Hap

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:59 am
by reptilezone2002
wow nice work i was looking for a qwickbook alternative

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:05 am
by blueglass
I use OpenOffice and GnuCash a lot on my Mint laptop that I bought from Lazada and I agree with some other members here that technical applications are still behind in terms of the number of them that are open source. :)

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:41 am
by habfan29
nextdistroplease wrote:As a noob to Linux, about 6 months, I think I can say that "tar" is the perfect alternative to backup software.
rsnapshot >> tar, though you do need to format your backup drive in a *nix filesystem, not mere FAT32 or NTFS.

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:48 pm
by blueglass
reptilezone2002 wrote:wow nice work i was looking for a qwickbook alternative
Have you tried using a web app like Wave Accounting to replace Quickbook?

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:56 pm
by iStatiK

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:16 pm
by Evgeny
I never knew about Cabos, I'll give a try

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:37 am
by GreenLang
What's an alternative for Adobe Premier CS6.5 that just came out. All i can say about that program is, rock solid, stable. butter smooth. low on memory. high on performance

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 6:21 am
by Jessey Lawson
Man this thread is old. Like an old man. :D Libre office and Caliga are much bettter then Open office.
iTunes to Songbird: If you’re accustomed to the equation where “Apple + iPod + iTunes” equals a ton of money, then you might consider a switch to Songbird. Songbird is an open source player and a platform committed to “playing the music you want + from the sites you want + on the devices you want.” Songbird thereby challenges the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.
Ok this just grinds my gears as they forgot that songbird is also a decent web browser to and that is the ONLY REASONi use it. And by the way, where are the open source games?! I did not see any witch means that the list is Biast and not complete. That it write I am going there. Now Micropalus is a good game but LinCity is complete crap. I mean what is with all the Russian vocabulary and we still don't have any more then one simcity clone.

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2013 5:56 pm
by inflatablemouse
Has no one mentioned Kingsoft Office?

http://wps-community.org/download.html

I think this is by far and above the best MS Office alternative. I've not had the slightest trouble importing Office 2010/2013 documents or spreadsheets. Colors, formatting and fonts all look almost the same. Formulas and graphs all seem to work too (I have a few complex ones).

Honestly LibreOffice looks outdated and formatting has never looked right when importing Office documents. Fonts are ugly too. Kingsoft Office is simply beautiful :D .

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:30 pm
by erfunath
In terms of media players, I have to plug Clementine. http://www.clementine-player.org/. Love it. Probably already listed on here. Love it.

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 2:23 am
by Acanthus
This list really needs updating.

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:54 am
by OldgitTom
Kingsoft as Word replacement; I've tried the free version, which prolly lacks all the features of the paid-for one. It performs well & handles all MS Word files, so maybe worth downloading for that. But it falls behind Open Office in not recognizing & incorporating a scanner feature, or 'odt' files. Since that meant it was of limited use for my purposes, I rather lost interest after that, so I don't know if it can save graphics as 'jpeg' files (Word refuses), or how it fares with 'pdf' files.

Personally, I find MS Word the best. Linux would make bigger inroads in the business/academic markets if it introed its own version, were that feasible. Word's domination is from its near universal use, making the exchange of docs simpler - little file converting & staff training needed.

Open Office is acceptable, but no match for Word beyond simple text-bashing. Eg., commands ribbon cannot be customized, & any doc saved in non-odt form tends to have corrupted formatting when re-opened later. This seems to be when graphics & text are mixed.

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:28 pm
by JohnBobSmith
Hm, thats interesting. I've had no problems using LibreOffice (the one that comes pre-installed with Mint) and MS Word, once I got my partition mounted. Sure a few formatting issues within the document itself (font, spacing, etc.) are inconvienent, but I've never had issues with corrupted files.

I wouldn't go as far to say that MS word is the king of office suites. Statistically speaking it does well, but other than that, I don't know... I guess everyone is entitled to their opinion (at least in Canada) so if you like using MS word then by all means, use it and enjoy! :)

I just prefer using free software. After all, Linux is free... :D

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:38 pm
by trapperjohn
Here's a huge alternative:

ArcGis -> qgis

Re: Top 50 Proprietary apps and their Open Source Alternativ

Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:43 am
by trapperjohn
molecular modeling and visualization:

Windows versions - various high priced apps

Alternatives:

Modeling/drawing:
Avogadro: http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/Main_Page

Visualization
Jmol: http://jmol.sourceforge.net/