Difference between revisions of "Free Software Directory:Free software replacements"
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+ | ** Replaced 'Claws Mail' with 'Mozilla Thunderbird' -- GNU IceCat is a fork of Mozilla Firefox ESR, some add-ons run on both Firefox (and IceCat) and Thunderbird. Thunderbird is much much popular than Claws Mail. | ||
** Made the categories more unique | ** Made the categories more unique | ||
** Replaced "Blender3D" with "Blender" (see menu bar Blender -> About). | ** Replaced "Blender3D" with "Blender" (see menu bar Blender -> About). |
Revision as of 17:33, 12 January 2018
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Free program | GNU/Linux | GNU/Hurd | BSD | Replicant | macOS | iOS | Windows | Windows Mobile | Unique category |
Blender | Autodesk Maya ("Maya") | Autodesk Maya ("Maya") |
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3D computer graphics software | |||||
Dia | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Visio | Diagramming software | |||||
Evince | Adobe Reader | Adobe Reader |
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Document viewer | |||||
GIMP | Yes | Yes | Adobe Photoshop |
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Raster graphics editor | ||||
GNU IceCat (Mozilla Firefox ESR fork) |
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Web browser | |||
GNUnet | Yes | Yes | Yes | DC++ | Anonymous P2P | ||||
Inkscape | Yes | Yes | Adobe Illustrator |
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Vector graphics editor | ||||
Iridium (Chromium fork) |
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Web browser | |||
LibreOffice | Yes | Yes | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Office | Office suite | ||||
MinGW | Yes | Microsoft Visual C++ | Compiler | ||||||
ownCloud (client only) | Dropbox | Dropbox | Dropbox | Dropbox |
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Online storage | |||
Pidgin |
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Instant messaging client | |
qBittorrent | Yes | Yes | BitTorrent | BitTorrent | BitTorrent client | ||||
QupZilla |
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Web browser | |||
Scribus | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Desktop publishing | |||
Signal | Yes | Yes | Apple iMessage | Apple iMessage | Yes | Encrypted voice calling, video calling and instant messaging | |||
Mozilla Thunderbird | Yes | Apple Mail (included) |
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E-mail client | |||||
Tribler | Yes | Yes | BitTorrent | BitTorrent | BitTorrent client | ||||
UNetbootin | Yes | Apple Disk Utility |
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Live USB | |||||
Vim | Yes | Yes | Yes | Notes | Notes | Text editor | |||
VLC media player (VLC) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Yes | Media player |
- Synced https://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html
- Replaced 'Claws Mail' with 'Mozilla Thunderbird' -- GNU IceCat is a fork of Mozilla Firefox ESR, some add-ons run on both Firefox (and IceCat) and Thunderbird. Thunderbird is much much popular than Claws Mail.
- Made the categories more unique
- Replaced "Blender3D" with "Blender" (see menu bar Blender -> About).
- Replaced "VideoLan Client" with "VLC media player" (see menu bar VLC -> About).
- Replaced "Paint Shop Pro" with "PaintShop Pro".
- Replaced "Xara Xtreme" with "Xara Photo & Graphic Designer" -- The Windows version was previously sold under the names Xara Studio, Xara X and Xara Xtreme
- Removed "Adobe FreeHand" (Adobe Illustrator is already in the list) -- Since 2003 FreeHand development has been discontinued; in the Adobe Systems catalog, FreeHand has been replaced with Adobe Illustrator.
- Replaced "Napster" with DC++
- Replaced "MSN" (Windows Live Messenger, discontinued) with "Facebook Messenger"
- Replaced "Yahoo" with "Yahoo! Messenger"
- Replaced "ICQ chat clients" with "ICQ"
- Replaced "Maya" with "Autodesk Maya ("Maya")"
- Replaced "3DSMax" (formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max) with "Autodesk 3ds Max"
- Removed AIM, discontinued (December 15, 2017)
- Replaced "Outlook Express" with "Microsoft Mail"
- Replaced "InDesign" with "Adobe InDesign"
- Removed "PageMaker", discontinued
- Removed Google Drive, a service not a software
- Replaced "Reader (Windows 8)" with "Microsoft Reader"
- Added "Apple Mail"
- Synced https://www.gnu.org/software/for-ios.html and
- Removed Rufus because there is no GNU/Linux version available.
- Removed OnionBrowser because there is no GNU/Linux version available.
- Removed Orfox because there is no GNU/Linux version available.
- Removed LibreSignal because there is no GNU/Linux version available.
- Removed VimTouch because there is no GNU/Linux version available.
- Added Telegram (as a replacement for LibreSignal).
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