Equivalent Applications


Current antiX-Full-Stable v Windows (Mainly XP Home)


In antiX you are able to do most of the day-to-day things you do in Windows.  Because antiX is not Windows, the apps you use to carry out your daily activities are not the same as the ones used in Windows. 
The following table is an introduction to antiX apps.  It shows some sections of the antiX menu and lists the apps in each of them.  It also gives a very brief description of what each app does and the name of an equivalent app often found in Windows.

Rather than offering a single a single monolithic app that performs a range of tasks, the antiX philosophy is to offer multiple small apps.  One advantage of this approach is wider user choice.   Sometimes antiX provides more than one app that perform similar roles.  In these cases an extra choice is built in. 

For some apps, there is an introductory video available.  To watch it simply click the icon in a fully featured web browser.  In antiX-Full-Stable this is named Iceweasel.

Where a video is not available it is still often possible to get more information.  Start the app from the main antiX menu and in the app window
click the help button.  This usually displays a button named "About".  Clicking this will often show the address of the home web site for the app.

antiX App Name
Video 
Primary Function
Windows Equivalent
Accessories



Archive Manager
Create and extract archives (zip and other formats) Extract Wizard, Winzip
Clipit
Copy-and-paste app to store multiple snippets of text -
GJots2
Personal information and notes organizer -
Leafpad

Edit plain text files Notepad
LucyBackup

Backup & file synchronization tool Backup
Root Terminal

Run apps via the command line (as root)
cmd (as administrator)
SpaceFM File Search

Find a file by its name
Search Companion
SpeedCrunch

Arithmetic calculator
Calculator
Xarchiver
Create and extract archives (zip and other formats) Extract Wizard, Winzip
Zim Desktop Wiki
Personal information and notes organizer -
Graphics



Gcolor2

Find and select colours
-
Gtkam

Browse and download images from a digital camera
-
LibreOffice Draw

LibreOffice app to create drawings and slides for presentations
Powerpoint (MS-Office)
Mirage

View single or multiple graphic images
-
mtPaint

Edit graphic images and paint app
Paint
PhotoPrint

Print digital photographs
-
Presentations
Create slide show
Powerpoint (MS-Office)
Screenshot
Capture your screen to an image file
-
XSane Image Scanner
Scan paper to an image file via a hardware scanner
-
Internet



Claws Mail

Manage email
Outlook Express
Connectshares



Connect to shares offered by a remote system on the LAN
-
Connectshares Conf
Disconnectshares
Dillo

Web browser with limited functionality and local file display
-
Firewall Configuration

Control local firewall settings
Firewall
gFTP

Transfer files across a LAN or internet
FTP
GNOME PPP

Connect to the internet via dialup (telephone)
Connect To
GPRS-EDGE-UMTS-Panel

Connect to the internet via GPRS/UMTS/3G
-
Iceweasel
Web browser (Unbranded Firefox) with full functionality.  Browse the internet, on-line email, on-line shopping, on-line videos etc
Internet Explorer
Links 2

Web browser with limited functionality for text based sites
-
Pidgin

Internet chat for various room providers (IRC, MSN. ICQ etc...)
-
RutilT

Configure wired/wireless devices and manage connections
-
WICD

WPAGUI

Transmission
Peer-to-peer file sharing via BitTorrent
-
Office



antix-phonebook

Manage phone contact details
-
ePDFViewer

Display digital paper documents Adobe Acrobat Viewer
LibreOffice Office Suite Drawing, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Word Processor
MS-Office
Ted RTF Text Processor

Word process RTF files
Wordpad
Sound and Video



Asunder CD Ripper
Extract CD tracks to MP3 files
Media Player
Gnome MPlayer
Play audio and video files
Media Player
Goggles Music Manager

Manage, categorize, play and stream music
Media Player
GTK Youtube Viewer

Search for an play videos from Youtube
-
Guvcview

Record video from a webcam
-
Imagination

Make photo DVD slideshows
-
SimpleBurn
Burn CD/DVD Media Player
Streamtuner

Listen to internet radio broadcasts
Media Player
WinFF
Convert audio/video file formats WinFF
XMMS Audio Player Media Player
System Tools



antiX Snapshot

Create a live installable snapshot of the running antiX system
-
Batti

Battery status monitor
-
Bleachbit

Delete unnecessary files, erase internet cache, cookies, history etc
Bleachbit
Easy Update

Display pending updates ready for download and install
Windows Update
GDebi Package Installer

Manual installation of downloaded apps
-
GParted
Change disk partition layout and file systems Disk Management
Grsync
Backup/synchronization of folders and files Backup
IceWMCC
Control some taskbar functions -
Lucky Backup

Backup/synchronization of folders and files Backup
Metapackage-installer
Application Installer Add Remove Programs
ROX Filer

File manager to move/rename/copy files, manage permissions etc
Explorer
ROXTerm

Run apps via the command line cmd
Samba Commander

Manage files on Samba file shares -
SpaceFM
File manager to move/rename/copy files, manage permissions etc Explorer
Synaptic
Add remove apps Add Remove Software
System Profiler

Display system hardware information
-
Preferences



Adobe Flash Player

Adjust Flash Player settings
-
Advert-Block

Stop internet banner-advertisement servers reaching your system
-
ARandR

Control positioning and layout of screen
-
Customize Look & Feel

Switch system themes, icon sets etc
-
Printing
Set up and manage printers Printers
Control Center



Desktop







Change wallpaper, icon themes etc
Control Panel
System
Add/remove software and users, change time etc
Network
Set up wireless and wired connections, control firewall etc
Session
Change screen resolution, keyboard layout, auto-login etc
Live
Control how antiX works when booted from a USB stick/disk
Disks
Add/remove partitions, create a bootable antiX USB, backup files etc
Hardware
Manage printer, mouse, sound, show hardware details  etc