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Linux equivalents to popular Mac apps

15 ott/09

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In my most past article (”Five tips to support assist the migration from Mac to Linux“) I distinct structure to support end-users designate from the Mac operative grouping to the UNIX operative system. It was advisable to me that I should counterbalance applications that could support as replacements for favourite Mac apps. Your desire is my command.

In this article I module summary a whatever of the possibilities that crapper be utilised to modify the loved applications ofttimes utilised in Mac. In whatever cases their haw be equivalents that are nearly identical. In whatever cases, however, there haw be equivalents that woman whatever features, or modify substance meliorate features. Either way, after this article, you should see such more cushy most migrating from OS X to Linux.

In the preceding article I already mentioned using Songbird as a equal for iTunes. Personally I favour Songbird to iTunes. The exclusive failure is that Songbird crapper not still transmit to either the iPhone or the iTouch. Yet. There is added agency that is currently in utilization that module most probable modify that. But for today – you crapper ingest Songbird as a equal for iTunes – meet don’t wait Songbird to transmit with your iPhone/iTouch.

Garage Band

For those hunting to create penalization on your UNIX machine, a beatific equal for Garage Band is Jokosher. Jokosher is a simple, coercive multi-track transcription studio. With this unpaid agency you crapper goods music, achievement instruments, intermixture down, ordered tempos, and more. You module not, however, encounter a super assemblage of pre-recorded instruments and sounds to add and manipulate. But, if you hit a Freesound account, you crapper goods anything from their. Unlike Garage Band, Jokosher is rattling more a user-friendly multi-track recorder. So don’t wait to meet unstoppered up the covering and move piecing unitedly penalization without production up an instrument.

For more aggregation on another frequence creating software verify a countenance at Linux-Sound.org. In my crushed opinion, if you are hunting for mult-media creation, your prizewinning countenance is to download Ubuntu Studio which module allow so Negro pre-installed applications for media creation/editing.

iWork

This digit should be obvious. If you’re hunting for an duty flat to verify tending of every your duty needs, countenance no boost than OpenOffice. Although OpenOffice haw hit a assorted countenance and feel, you module encounter it meet as cushy to ingest AND it includes more features and applications than iWork.

iCal

If you same Apple’s defence lonely calendar (that also integrates with another applications) you crapper establish the defence lonely Sunbird calendar. Sunbird was created by Mozilla so it has a rattling Firefox/Thunderbird see to it. Sunbird is rattling near to a feature-for-feature equal to iCal.

iPhoto

My spouse uses a Mac and she HATES iPhoto. But it is the accepted for Mac picture management. For UNIX there is the F-spot picture direction tool. F-spot not exclusive manages your picture collections, but module impact with your digital camera as an goods tool. F-spot is actually easier to ingest than iPhoto and module not hit you conflict to essay to intend a example of software to do something you KNOW it should do, but won’t.

Final thoughts

It’s not an complete list, but it module support you intend by with the important applications digit would ingest on a recent Mac computer. If you hit a Mac-based covering you are hunting for a UNIX equivalent, permit me undergo what that is and I module endeavor to post an equal for you.

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