| Categoria del Programa | Aplicaciones Privativas | Aplicaciones Libres |
| Editor de Texto | Notepad, Wordpad, TextPad | Kedit, Gedit, vim, ed, nano, Emacs |
| Compresores de Archivos | Winzip, Winrar | Gnozip, Ark, Gnochive, gzipm gzip2, tar, zip |
| Visor de PDFs | Adobe Acrobar Reader | xpdf, kpdf, kghostview, gv |
| Antivirus | McAfee, Kaspersky, Norton, Panda | ClamAV, OpenAntivirus |
| Configuracion del sistema | Mscofing | Webmin, Linuxconf, Yast, sysinstall |
| Gestores de Arranque | MS NTLDR, System Commander, Power Quest Boot Magic | GRUB, LILO, LOADLIN, SYSLINUX |
| Particionamiento de disco | Power Quest Partition Magic | parted, Gparted, fdisk, QTParted, fips, cfdisk |
| Reproductor de musica | Winamp, windoze media player | XMMS, amarok, noatun, moc |
| Grabadores de CD | Nero Express, Roxio Easy Creator | K3B, XCDRoast, KonCD, GnomeBaker |
| Reproductores de CD | Windoze CD player | KsCD, Grip |
| Ripiadores de CD | Nero, Virtual Drive, Virtual CD | Grip, Audacity, KaudioCreator, cdparanoia |
| Editores simples de graficos | MS Paint | Kpaint, TuxPaint, Xpaint, Gpaint |
| Editores potentes de graficos | Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro | Gimp, Krita, ImageMagick |
| Editores de graficos vectoriales | Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand | Sodipodi, xfig, Karbon14, inkscape, Xara LX |
| Editores de Iconos | Microangelo | Gnome-iconedit, kiconedit |
| Creación de Peliculas Flash | Macromedia Flash | DrawSWF, Ming, F4L, KToon |
| Suite Ofimática | MS Office, StartOffice | OpenOffice.org, koffice, Gnome Office |
