The Saturday 2004-02-21 at 12:00 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I am wondering if anyone knows of a site that defines what each of the linux packages is and does and that can be searched, so that if I was looking for emulators WINE, VMWare and CrossOverOffice would come up? And yes I know WINE is not an emulator :)
What about this? http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml It is not what you ask exactly, but it has a long list of programs, and clasified by what they do (in a short sentence). Most programs names have a link to their host site, and that is terribly nice. |The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. |Last update: 16.07.2003. | |You can always find the last version of this table on the official site: |http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/. | |This page on other languages: Russian, Italian, Spanish, French, German. | |One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the |lack of knowledge about comparable software. 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 :). |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!). | |This table is not static since new application names can be added to both |left and the right sides. Also, the right column for a particular class |of applications may not be filled immediately. 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. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson