On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Can somebody bring out the list of complete set of proven open source > software equivalent to Microsoft products. >
If we treat every package as a software which we should the list is long , from users perspective we may compare between the two ecosystems but we cannot do justice to either since the users and applications where these operating systems are put to use vary , ultimately it comes down to choice in FOSS world we have many software for doing the same or similar work with this comes the conundrum of choice. just to give you an idea of the complexity here is the list of number of packages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions#Package_management_and_installation if you are trying to look up for alternatives you can start with http://www.osalt.com/ , there are many other similar sites can you can do some digging on web and report back. -Satya Satyaakam.net <http://satyaakam.net/> | fossevents.in | fossacademy.org _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
