Ta pio polla apo ta koina ergaleia toy Unix exoyn metafer8ei sto Linux, symperilambanomenwn kai pollwn GNU programmatwn, kai polloi X pelates apo diafores phges. Bebaia, to ``exoyn metafer8ei'' einai sxetiko, giati polla programmata mporoun na xtistoun xwris kamia apolutws allagh, h me tetrimmenes, mikres tropopoihseis, afou to Linux akoloy8ei to POSIX protypo me arketa kalh akribeia. Dystyxws, den yparxoyn arketes efarmoges gia aplous xrhstes, alla ayto allazei synexws. Epikoinwnhste me ton promh8eyth ths agaphmenhs sas Unix efarmoghs kai rwthste an thn exoyn metaferei sto Linux.
Akoloy8ei enas mikros katalogos logismikou poy einai gnwsto pws trexei katw apo to Linux:
ls, tr, sed, awk ki outw ka8ejhs (peite to, to Linux pi8anon na to exei).
gcc, gdb, make, bison, flex, perl, rcs, cvs, prof.
C, C++, Objective C, Java, Modula-3, Modula-2, Oberon, Ada95, Pascal, Fortran, ML, scheme, Tcl/tk, Perl, Python, Common Lisp, kai polles alles.
X11R5 (XFree86 2.x), X11R6 (XFree86 3.x), MGR.
GNU Emacs, XEmacs, MicroEmacs, jove, ez, epoch, elvis (GNU vi), vim, vile, joe, pico, jed, kai alloi.
bash (POSIX sh-symbato), zsh (periexei katastash symbatothtas me to ksh), pdksh, tcsh, csh, rc, es, ash (kyriws sh-symbato shell poy to xrhsimopoiei to BSD sth 8esh toy /bin/sh), kai polla alla.
Taylor (BNU-symbath) UUCP, SLIP, CSLIP, PPP, kermit, szrz, minicom, pcomm, xcomm, term (trexei pollapla shells, anakatey8unei ton diktyako forto, kai epitrepei apomakrysmenh prosbash sta X, ola apo mia kai mono grammh modem), Seyon (dhmofiles programma epikoinwnias gia X-windows), diafora paketa gia fax kai voice-mail (xrhsimopoiwntas ta ZyXEL kai alla modems) yparxoyn. Profanws, apomakrysmenh prosbash me login panw apo seiriakes grammes yposthrizetai.
C-news, innd, trn, nn, tin, smail, elm, mh, pine, ktl.
TeX, groff, doc, ez, LyX, Lout, Linuxdoc-SGML, kai alla.
Nethack, diafora Muds kai paixnidia gia X, kai polla alla. An caxnete gia kati sygkekrimeno, mporeite panta na cajete gia ta dia8esima paixnidia sto tsx-11 kai sto sunsite.
AUIS, to Andrew User Interface System. To programma ez einai meros aytou toy paketoy efarmogwn.
Ola ayta ta programmata (ki ayta den einai oute to ena ekatosto apo ola osa einai dia8esima) dianemontai dwrean. Emporika paketa exoyn arxisei kai diati8entai epishs! Rwthste ton promh8eyth toy agaphmenoy sas emporikou paketoy an yposthrizei to Linux.