Dozens or hundreds (maybe thousands)
There are many applications with Linux software package equivalents available. Some examples of these applications include Google Chrome and Google Music Manager.
Very few applications are made specifically for Ubuntu. Most are available for other Linux distributions, and many are also available for Linux. Examples of programs included or available for Ubuntu are: * Mozilla Firefox * Pidgin * OpenOffice.org * AbiWord * Mozilla Thunderbird * Kopete * Battle for Wesnoth * Amarok * Apache web server
The courses available for Linux include Linux server, Linux desktop, bash shell, and many others.
* many software available for windows OS comparison to Linux or mac * easy to select because of available options as compare to Linux (which have many) *software installation no need to configure like Linux.
The 2.6 kernel is the latest series of LInux kernels. There are far too many programs that run on Linux to list them all.
Linux distributions can support hundreds of thousands of devices and programs, far too many to list.
There are many shells available for Linux; you need to be specific about the ones you want to compare.
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Yes there are many accounting courses available online. You can try http://www.phoenix.edu/information/online-accounting-degree.html as they offer a really good accounting program and are considered an accredited university with many campuses throughout the state.
Linux and the many variations based on Linux (Ubuntu, Mint, to name but two) are aimed at any one who wishes to use it, and is available for free.
EXE files are intended for use with the Microsoft Windows Operating System. However Wine allows Linux users to utilize many such applications as well. Depending on your Linux environment, there may be a binary package available, or you may build from the source code provided at http://www.winehq.org
There are many media players available for Linux. The best location to download them is from your distro's package repository.