List of proprietary software for Linux

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Linux is an open-source kernel and usually comes bundled with free and open source software, however, proprietary software for Linux does exist and is available to end-users.

The following is a list of proprietary software for Linux:

Contents

Networking

Web browsers

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[lower-alpha 1] Source code Pricing
Google Chrome Google Inc. Active Yes Partial[lower-alpha 2] Freeware
Netscape Netscape Communications Dropped Yes No Freeware
Opera Opera Software Active Yes No Freeware
Maxthon Cloud Browser Maxthon Active Yes No Freeware
Application Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Insight WebClient Bynari, Inc. N/A N/A N/A
IBM Notes IBM Active N/A No $108 – 175 USD

FTP clients

Application Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
IglooFTP PRO IglooFTP.com N/A N/A N/A N/A
SFTPPlus Pro:Atria Ltd Active Yes No N/A
SynchronEX+ Xellsoft Software Services Active Yes No $34.90 USD

Firewall (packet filtering)

  • Opendium Iceni - Part of a content control system targeted at schools
  • SmoothWall Corporate – A closed fork of SmoothWall, targeted at enterprise and corporate users

Visual traceroute

P2P File Sharing

  • Loophole (WinMX protocol) – WinMX servers down since 09.2005.
  • MetaMachine eDonkey2000 – latest release from 25.07.2005. (Discontinued)

"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers

  • GHX

Multifunction sound modem program/s

  • PrimaFax

Fax software

Network maintenance

Routing

  • GateD

Distributed Computing

Instant messaging

P2P file synchronisation

VoIP Software

Desktop/System software

Work with files

Console Archiver/s

Desktop search

File splitters

  • HJSplit for Linux – freeware, also available on other platforms.

PDF viewer

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[lower-alpha 3] Source code Pricing
Adobe Reader Adobe Systems Dropped[lower-alpha 4] Yes No Freeware
Foxit Reader Foxit Software Active Yes No Freeware
PDF Studio Pro Qoppa Software Active No[lower-alpha 5] No $129 USD
PDF Studio Standard Qoppa Software Active No[lower-alpha 5] No $89 USD

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PDF Authoring

Cryptography

Scanner utilities

Antivirus

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[lower-alpha 6] Source code Pricing
AntiVir Workstation PersonalEdition Avira Dropped N/A N/A N/A

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Bootloading

Acronis OS Selector opensource

Hard disk partitioning

Backup software

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[lower-alpha 7] Source code Pricing
BRU Workstation/Desktop/Server TOLIS Group, Inc. Active N/A N/A $499 – 4,999 USD[lower-alpha 8]
EMC NetWorker EMC Corporation Active N/A N/A N/A
ImgBurn Lightning UK Active No[lower-alpha 9] No Freeware
Microlite BackupEDGE Microlite Corporation Active Yes N/A $400 – 500 USD[lower-alpha 10]
Nero Linux Nero AG Terminated N/A N/A N/A
SpiderOak Backup SpiderOak, Inc. Active Yes No Freeware (paid plans available)
Lonetar
Handy Backup

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PIM / DB / Hierarchical notebook with tree view

  • TreePad Lite

File hosting service clients

Drivers

Printer driver

Multimedia

Audio/Video

MP3 Encoding

Score Writer

Multimedia Player

Music

Graphics

Graphics viewers/editors

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[lower-alpha 11] Source code Pricing
CompuPic Photodex Dropped N/A N/A N/A
iMeMiner N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Picasa Google Dropped No[lower-alpha 12] No Freeware
Sketsa SVG Editor KIYUT Software Active No[lower-alpha 13] No $89 USD
XnView MP Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet Active Yes No Freeware
Xv John Bradley Partial[lower-alpha 14] Yes Yes $35 USD

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Professional Graphics Editors and photography

Digital imaging

2D Bitmap Animation and Paint

Vector Graphics Editor/s

Flash Player

3D Graphics

Video, etc.

Simple/Professional Video Production Environment

Creation of 2D and 3D Effects

  • Fusion – Linux version is based upon the Windows version using wine.
  • Nuke
  • Shake – (discontinued)

Miscellaneous

Office/Business

Office suites

Word processor

Spreadsheets

Presentations

Local database

E-Commerce and Web Business

Personal Finance Manager

Financial Accounting

Enterprise Automation (Russian)

  • Keeper
  • Oblik

Collaboration Software

Project Management

Mind mapping/diagramming software

Communications software

  • EasyIVR Call processing (IVR, CTI, ACD) for Linux

Games

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Programming and development

C++ IDEs

PHP IDE

CASE

CASE-facility for UML

  • Together ControlCenter

Top-level CASE System

  • Rational Rose

Compilers

Revision Control

HTML/DHTML Editor

InterBase/Firebird IDE

Java IDE

Memory Leak Tracing

  • BoundsChecker
  • Insure

Object Pascal IDE

Perl/Python/Tcl IDE

Prolog

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

Servers

WWW

DB Engine

E-mail / Personal information manager / Groupware Servers

Product data/product lifecycle management (PDM/PLM)

Proxy

Cluster Filesystems

  • Matrix Server

Managed File Transfer

  • Serv-U File Server – Managed file transfer server, supporting FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, and HTTPS file transfer methods as well as numerous other features.

Miscellaneous applications

Mathematics

Statistical Packages

3D Modelling

CAD/CAM/CAE

Diagram and Chart Designing

HDD testing/benchmarking

Game makers

  • Maker3D is a 3D RPG creator software
  • Tululoo Game Maker is a complex game creation environment

Dictionaries

  • Lunestar is an English-Turkish dictionary - freeware

SQL DataBases GUI Admin Tool

  • Navicat – Linux version is based upon the Windows version using wine.

Emulators

Video game console emulators

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[lower-alpha 15] Source code Pricing
BoycottAdvance[lower-alpha 16] • Julien Frelat
• Richard Bannister
• Niels Wagenaar		 Dropped[lower-alpha 17] Yes No Freeware
ePSXe[lower-alpha 18] ePSXe Team Active Yes No Freeware
MAME[lower-alpha 19] MAME Team Active[lower-alpha 20] Yes Yes[lower-alpha 21] Freeware
Regen[lower-alpha 22] AamirM Active Yes No Freeware

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Platform virtual machines

Application Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Parallels Workstation Parallels, Inc. Terminated[lower-alpha 23] N/A No No longer sold
QuickTransit
VMware Player
VMware vCenter Converter
VMware Workstation
Oracle VM VirtualBox Enterprise
Win4Lin
Discontinued

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Windows Compatibility Layer

See also

  • Wine (software), a "compatibility layer" that allows many windows software to run on Linux (both proprietary and free)

References

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External links


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  1. ↑ Solutions – tummy.com, ltd
  2. ↑ Guitar Pro
  3. ↑ Tracktion
  4. ↑ Debian Bug report logs – #364034. Accessed on: January 12, 2009.
  5. ↑ TrueCrypt licensing concern Accessed on: April 20, 2009
  6. ↑ Bug #109701 in Ubuntu. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
  7. ↑ non-OSI compliant packages in the openSUSE Build Service. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
  8. ↑ Gentoo bug 241650. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
  9. ↑ Forbidden items - FedoraProject
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  13. ↑ MEDUSA
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