Here, I will try to build a software equivalents table of products available for Microsoft Windows XP and openSUSE platforms, but not necessarily comes bundled with those platforms. It is intended for Windows users that want to replace their lovely software with a Linux equivalent.
Here, I will not try to make a full review of listed software, neither give a relative score, so I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to learn the software, and get personal feelings of each of the applications in the table below:
Type Windows XP openSUSE Standard Windows applications: File Manager Windows Explorer KDE Konqueror Web Browser Internet Explorer Mozilla FireFox Text Editor Notepad KDE Kate Painter Paint KDE KolourPaint Command-Line prompt cmd KDE Konsole MultiMedia Player Windows Media Player KDE Kaffeine Calculator Calc KDE Kcalc Standard Office applications: Office Suite Office-2003 OpenOffice Document Office-Word-2003 OpenOffice Writer Spreadsheet Office-Excel-2003 OpenOffice Calc Presentation Office-PowerPoint-2003 OpenOffice Impress Database Office-Access-2003 OpenOffice Base E-mail Office-Outlook-2003 Mozilla Thunderbird Calendar Office-Outlook-2003 KDE KOrganizer Extended Windows applications: Image Viewer ACDSee KDE Gwenview Archiving WinZip KDE Ark WinAmp-style Player WinAmp XMMS CD Burning Nero KDE K3b CD Cover Design Nero Cover Design KDE Kover FTP Client WS FTP Pro, Filezilla KDE Konqueror SMB Client Windows Explorer KDE Konqueror Hex Editor Visual Studio KDE KHexEdit Professional Painter Photoshop GIMP Twin-Panel File Manager Norton Commander KDE Krusader PC Emulator Virtual PC VirtualBox Development Environment Visual Studio KDE KDevelop HTML WYSIWYG Editor Dreamweaver Nvu Remote Access Remote Desktop FreeNX IRC Client mIRC KDE Konversation Download Manager Download Accelerator KDE KGet Standard Windows internal components: Control Center Control Panel SUSE Yast Display Manager Windows Login KDE KDM Window Manager XP Window Manager KDE kwin Package Manager Add/Remove Programs RPM, Yast, klik Task Manager Task Manager KDE kSysGuard Boot Loader NTLDR GRUB Firewall Windows Firewall SUSE Firewall Extended Windows internal components: Desktop Manager nVidia workspaces KDE pager Standard Windows Server 2003 components: User Authentication Active Directory LDAP (?) HTTP Web Server IIS Apache FTP Server IIS vsftpd Remote Access Terminal Services FreeNX Telnet Server MS Telnet Server telnet-server SMB File Sharing Windows File Sharing samba DNS Server DNS Server yast2-dns-server DHCP Server DHCP Server dhcp-server Extended Windows Server 2003 components: SQL Database Server SQL Server mysql e-mail Exchange sendmail (?) TFTP Server Solarwinds TFTP Yast TFTP Specials without equivalents: 3D Benchmarks 3D Mark 2000...06 - 3D Performance Monitor Fraps - 3D Desktop - Looking Glass 3D Application Security - AppArmor Type Windows XP openSUSE
Comparison of both OSes rools: both Open-Source and proprietary applications are allowed, preference given to Microsoft applications on Windows and to Open-Source applications with graphical user interface (GUI) on Linux.
Interoperability is a new series of my documentation-set. It describes the working relationships between different Operating Systems, and helps build a healthy openSUSE integration into existing Windows environments.
There are several resources, that are spread across the Internet. One of them is: http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html.