The Linux Alternative Project Forum - Software Alternatives

blufftitler (1 reply)

smmsamm — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:33:57 -0400

Looking for an alternative to a player that can show RSS and XML in 3d mode
there is a very good software for windows in this url
[www.outerspace-software.com]

It is professional 3D animation and video for showing RSS in realtime and many other titling purposes but I need something in linux

you can see its features in:
[www.outerspace-software.com]
and
[www.outerspace-software.com]

Fraps (1 reply)

timecatalyst — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:05:48 -0400

Looking for an alternative to Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/), though it doesn't have to be nearly as feature-full.

A friend and I have just recently moved development of our OpenGL game from Windows to Linux, and we want to do short captures for our development blog.

Snag-It (TechSmith) and VLC.... (2 replies)

rearviewmirror — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:06:08 -0400

Is there a program that has the screen capture capabilities of Snag-It?

Also.. how does VLC not make the LinuxAlt list for a media player? It's better than any of the others listed!

Windows Media Player (no replies)

ingeon — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:13:15 -0400

I know mplayer is on there but i found smplayer is way better than Windows Media Player
and mplayer, even though it`s based on it. It`s got awesome functions.
It would have been better than VLC if it had the video corruption test/check built into
it like VLC.

magic iso alternative? (1 reply)

dion — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:54:55 -0400

hello. I am trying to find a way to boot iso files in linux? Is there a program like magic iso or deamon tools for linux mint?

Microsoft Streets and Trips on Linux (no replies)

Dr Love — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:38:21 -0500

Does any one out there know of a good alternative to Microsoft's Streets and Trips program to run on Linux?
I am using Mint 8 a Debian based distro.
I tried to install using Wine Doors but no luck. I have a paid copy of Cross Over but it will not install correctly on Mint 8 either.

Newbie Linux user
Dr. Love

Alternative to OmniFocus, Things, The Hit List, FusionDesk? (no replies)

ArchiMark — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:44:30 -0500

Wondering if there's anything comparable to any of the following ToDo List organizer apps that allow you to easily tag, organize, and sort ToDo tasks in various ways and have very simple looking, elegant graphic interfaces?

Wouldn't mind paying for such as app if it did the job....

Only app that I know of that is anything like this, but is still quite different would be ThinkingRock......

Thanks for any suggestions!

Good alternative for Dragon Naturally Speaking software in Linux (2 replies)

sam4dl — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:25:15 -0500

Hi, Im looking for a good alternative for Dragon Naturally Speaking software in Linux.

I know i can install Dragon through Wine but i do not want to and want to find a good alternative for linux.

Please assist... with name and link to download..... Thanks in advance 8-)

Incremental backups like File Hamster (1 reply)

cerulean — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:38:34 -0400

Moving from Windows and looking for replacement for "File Hamster" (filehamster.com)

Basically I'm a PHP developer and it would watch my apache web documents folder for changes and make a backup with a time-stamp of any changed files. Once you had those backups you could restore from an old version, compare two versions with a diff app like Beyond Compare, and you could get a report of changes for a certain time period. That last part is useful for verifying time spent on projects.

Anything like this exist in Linux?

Google Gears , Adobe Air alternative (no replies)

balki — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:02:31 -0400

Open source, cross platform supporting alternative for Google gears and adobe air.
I want to develop web applications for desktops (preferably which will run on a browser or will run without much of installation requirements) with local cache, so that limiting bandwidth and online time.
Apps like feed reader , mail reader , forum reader ( have plans to customize for all popular bulletin boards ) ,etc..
Are there any open source libraries or tools available or i've to code from scratch ?

Great FTP client (no replies)

Bashar — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:59:31 -0400

Hello,
Please add FileZilla to your FTP alternative its great opensource software

MS Photo Story (1 reply)

jamiers — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:27:29 -0400

Searching for a good alternative for my third graders to use. Microsoft Photo Story is as easy as it gets. I'm hoping that someone can suggest a good easy alternative for this program to install on Windows and Linux. Thanks.

Mp3tag alternative (2 replies)

mem.namefix — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:34:32 -0400

Can we add namefix.pl to the mp3tag alternatives ?
Does everything the others do though its main function is a batch file renamer it does a great job on mp3s.

I am the author of namefix.pl :P

SuperCopier alt for Linux? (1 reply)

DigitalDreamer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:50:59 -0400

Just wondering if there is alternative application to this one, cause the one the openSuse (11.1) isn't good enough.
Tnx

danboids list of additions (3 replies)

danboid — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:25:24 -0400

Hi Linux Alternatives!

I've been a Linux user since '96 and my main area of interest is multimedia production. I've seen your page linked a few times now and there are a few big omissions right now. I couldn't see a way to edit the main page so I'll just list them here:

DeVeDe - DeVeDe makes it simple to author DVD videos (or (S)VCD) including menus converting from any type of video supported by mplayer. Also available for Windows.

winff - A great ffmpeg GUI with many useful presets, winff makes batch conversion of videos simple under Linux. Windows version too.

dvd95 - dvd95 is a simple GTK app for shrinking dual-layer video DVDs onto single layer discs.

handbrake - handbrake is a cross-platform alternative to dvd::rip- it rips DVDs to MPEG4

qcad - qcad is a GPL 2D CAD program with a QT4 interface that is available for Linux, Windows and Mac

soundconverter - soundconverter is a simple GTK app to easily convert sound files into MP3, OGG, WAV or FLAC

nautilus-image-converter - This is a plugin for the GNOME file manager that allows you to quickly and easily resize a large number of images just by selecting and right-clicking on them under Nautilus.

rebuild_db - This is a platform independent python script that allows iPod shuffle users to ditch itunes entirely and use their ipod like a normal USB memory stick by copying the songs over then running the script on any computer that has python installed to update the ipods song database.

Musescore - Musescore is a FOSS cross-platform musical score editor ala Finale or Sibelius

milkytracker - milkytracker is the premier open source, cross platform music tracking program for creating and editing Amiga MOD and similar files

sooperlooper - Is a great fun multitrack sampler

I'm sure there's more cool apps that should be on that list that I haven't remembered just yet...

EndNote (bibliographical database) alternative (1 reply)

hubert — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:00:36 -0500

I just found this JabRef witch is an alternative to EndNote.

It's a great freeware (I don't know if it's opensource though) available with Linux, OSX and Windows and is a frontend of BibTex.

I don't know much about it, but it should be added to the web page "Linux Alternative Project" (http://www.linuxalt.com/)

Autoruns (3 replies)

who — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:12:52 -0500

First of all hello!

I'm looking for something similar to Autoruns from Sysinternals. I can find out what boots with Linux, but i haven't found a nice GUI program that shows the info like Autoruns for Windows.

Cheers

MS Agent alternatives? (1 reply)

smk — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:29:35 -0400

Any suggestions on MS Agent alternatives?

ACDSee alternatives? (no replies)

smk — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:38:42 -0400

From e-mail:

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I used to love aCDsee on Windows. I could use it for many things, among
others, to generate quickly a nice slide-show (exe) file, with the
file-name of the photos displayed under all image automatically and with
music, as well.

I would love to find an alternative for ACDse under Ubuntu!

On linuxalt.com, I have the following that might help you out:

[www.linuxalt.com]
[www.linuxalt.com]
[www.linuxalt.com]
[www.linuxalt.com]
[www.linuxalt.com]

Please post any more suggestions here.

AutoCAD alternatives? (3 replies)

smk — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:34:49 -0400

From an e-mail:

Quote

Do you know of any good AutoCAD equivalents for Linux? Must have 3D modelling and
rendering as well as all the basic design tools.

Please reply with your suggestions.

UltraEdit Alternatives? (1 reply)

smk — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:39:34 -0500

Hey all.

This one came through e-mail.

Any suggestions on UltraEdit alternatives?

ZoneAlarm Forcefield alternatives? (1 reply)

smk — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:10:22 -0400

Does anybody know of any ZoneAlarm Forcefield alternatives? This was asked in another post and I thought I would put it here as well.

- smk