Open Source substitutes for Popular Tools

Hi
In the past few years , the world of open source have taken a giant leap from just being a theory into a world wide phenomenon , bringing with it some of the worlds best software and tool the cyber freaks can hope for.
And while we discuss over this topic we can never ignore the contributions of some giant companies that supported the open source community without limits , namely Google , SUN Microsystms and Canonical.

So today i will be  presenting you with a list of open source substitutes for some of the popular software.
I have personally tried out each of these and believe me , you wont regret moving over to these. 

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SOFTWARE=============================SUBSTITUTE

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Windows----------------------------------------->   Linux (Trust me you wont look back)

Windows Media Player  -----> VLC (how about never seeing "Canot Play" Message)

Microsoft Office -------------------------> Open Office (Your office will just get better)

Internet Explorer ----> Firefox or Google Chrome(Let me see if you will ever even think of IE)

Photoshop --------> GIMP ( it is great, but not 100% what PS is, but soon it will be, it's really promising, and guess what it can do lot of stuff PS cant)

Quake 3 ------> Assault Cube

And this is some thing that thousands of Users are looking for

a Open Source Substitute of Sonic Stage (Sonicstage) for linux.   

Surprise .. It exist...

guess what it will work on Linux Windows and Mac , and it is portable

and hence you can carry this small file in your sony walkman itself.

it is writen in java to the best of what a program can get to.

 Jsymphonics -- here it is

I will be writing a tutorial on the basics of it, soon most probably tomorow itself.

if you want any help feel free to conatct me at blaise.crowly@gmail.com

or use the contact page at http://blaisemcrowly.co.cc