- List of proprietary software for Linux
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Though Linux is an open-source operating system and usually comes bundled with free and open source software, proprietary software for Linux does exist and is available to end-users.
The following is a list of proprietary software for Linux:
Networking
Web Browser/s
- Google Chrome — freeware, Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier (an open source version, Chromium, also exists)
- Opera — freeware, offers free and easy to download Web browsers for computers, mobile phones and devices.
- Netscape — freeware, last Linux version is 7.2
E-mail Client in MS Outlook Style
- Bynari — Insight Family of products is a collaboration suite of products that consists of open source components and proprietary development, by Bynari, that runs on Linux.
- Lotus Notes — 8.0.0 for Linux/x86 (Red Hat and SuSE initially)[1]
- Zarafa Outlook Sharing Zarafa is designed to integrate with Microsoft Office Outlook and is meant as an alternative to the Microsoft Exchange Server.
- Zimbra — Open source cross-platform webmail and Desktop client.
FTP Client/s
- IglooFTP PRO for Linux
- Pro:Atria Ltd SFTPPlus commercial SSH server and client with additional audit and automation functions in order to meet regulatory and corporate compliance requirements.
- Xellsoft.com SynchronEX+ Shareware, SynchronEX enables robust multi-directional file tree synchronization and backup over local & network paths in any situation:
Firewall (packet filtering)
- SmoothWall Corporate — A closed fork of SmoothWall, targeted at enterprise and corporate users
Visual traceroute
P2P File Sharing
- MetaMachine eDonkey2000 — latest release from 25.07.2005.
- Loophole (WinMX protocol) — WinMX servers down since 09.2005.
"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers
- GHX
Multifunction sound modem program/s
- PrimaFax
Fax software
- Esker Fax
- Esker VSI-FAX
- Fax2Send
- FAXCOM
- MessagePlus/Open
- U-Fax
Network maintenance
Routing
- GateD
Distributed Computing
- Portable Batch System PBS Gridworks
Desktop/System software
Work with files
Console Archiver/s
Desktop search
- Google Desktop 1.0, released June 27, 2007
File splitters
- HJSplit for Linux, also available on other platforms.
PDF viewer
- Adobe Systems Acrobat Reader
- Foxit Software Foxit Reader
PDF Authoring
- Adobe Acrobat Distiller
Cryptography
Scanner utilities
Antivirus
- AntiVir Workstation PersonalEdition
- AVG Anti-Virus
- Dr. Web
- F-Prot (not to be confused with F-Secure)
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus
- NOD32 (server version)
- RAV Antivirus
- Trend Micro ServerProtect for Linux
- Avast Anti-Virus
- BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices
Bootloading
- Acronis OS Selector
Hard disk partitioning
- Paragon Partition Manager
- Acronis PartitionExpert
Backup software
- EMC Legato Networker
- www.Lonetar.com
- Microlite BackupEDGE
- Nero Linux, popular CD burning software. [1]
- SpiderOak Backup [2]
- BRU Workstation/Desktop/Server, reliable backup software. [3]
PIM / DB / Hierarchical notebook with tree view
Multimedia
Audio/Video
MP3 Encoding
Score Writer
Multimedia Player
- Real Player
- PowerDVD for Linux
- LinDVD
- Fluendo DVD Player
Graphics
Graphics viewers/editors
Professional Graphics Editors
Digital imaging
2D Bitmap Animation and Paint
Vector Graphics Editor/s
- Corel Draw 9
Flash Player
- Adobe Flash Player
3D Graphics
Video, etc.
Simple/Professional Video Production Environment
- iMira Editing
- MainActor
- IFX Piranha
- Autodesk/Discreet Smoke
- Autodesk/Discreet Flint/Flame/Inferno
Creation of 2D and 3D Effects
Miscellaneous
- Google Earth
- TrueCrypt, the source code is available, but the license is considered "unclear" and therefore not considered "free" by some of the major GNU/Linux distributions[3][4][5][6][7], and even considered with "potential to be actively dangerous" by Fedora[8]
Office/Business
Office suites
- StarOffice
- HancomOffice
- ApplixWare Office (see Applixware Words)
- ThinkFree Office
- EIOffice
Word Processor
- TextMaker
- StarOffice Writer
Spreadsheets
- StarOffice Calc
- DataScene
Presentations
- StarOffice Presentation
Local database
- InterBase 7
- Rekall
- StarOffice Adabas D
E-Commerce and Web Business
- WebLogic
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- Oracle Application Server
Personal Finance Manager
Financial Accounting
- Global: Hansa Business Solutions
- India & Asia: Kalculate
- Locbook
Enterprise Automation (Russian)
- Keeper
- Oblik
Collaboration Software
- Kerika
Project Management
- 2-plan Desktop, free project management software.
- Cando Projects Server
Communications software
- EasyIVR Call processing (IVR, CTI, ACD) for Linux
Games
- Airline Tycoon Deluxe
- Aliens versus Predator
- America's Army
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent
- And Yet It Moves
- Ankh
- Ankh: Heart of Osiris
- Astro Battle
- A Tale in the Desert
- Ballistics
- Bionic Heart
- Bubble Shooter
- Cave Story
- Civilization: Call to Power
- Cold War
- Conquest of Elysium II
- Cute Knight
- Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion
- Darwinia
- DEFCON
- Descent³
- Digital: A Love Story
- Dominions: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders
- Dominions II: The Ascension Wars
- Dominions 3: The Awakening
- Doom 3 (plus expansion pack Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil)
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Dwarf Fortress
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
- Eschalon: Book I
- Eschalon: Book II
- Exile III:Ruined World
- FizzBall
- Galcon
- Gorky 17
- Grappling Hook
- H-Craft Championship
- Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²
- Heileen 2: The Hands of Fate
- Heretic II
- Heroes of Might and Magic III
- Heroes of Newerth
- Hyperspace Delivery Boy!
- Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb
- Inner Worlds
- Jack Keane
- Jets'n'Guns
- Knights and Merchants
- Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
- Lux
- Machinarium
- Majesty Gold
- Marble Blast Gold
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
- MindRover
- Mobility
- Myth II: Soulblighter
- Neverwinter Nights (plus expansion packs)
- Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
- Out of the Park Baseball
- Penumbra: Black Plague
- Penumbra: Overture
- Postal²
- Prey
- Quake (all versions)
- Railroad Tycoon II
- Raptor: Call of the Shadows
- Regnum Online
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Rise of the Triad
- Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood
- Rune
- Savage 2
- Savage: The Battle for Newerth
- Serious Sam (all versions)
- Shadowgrounds
- Shadowgrounds Survivor
- Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
- SimCity 3000
- SiN
- Soldier of Fortune
- Space Combat
- Spheres of Chaos
- Summer Session
- Terminus
- The Labyrinth of Time
- Theocracy
- Tibia
- Toribash
- Tribal Trouble
- Tribes II
- Turbo Sliders
- Ultima Online
- Unreal Tournament (UT3 still in development)
- Uplink
- Vendetta Online
- X2: The Threat
- World of Goo
- X-Plane
- Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Programming and development
C++ IDEs
- Code Crusader
- CodeWarrior
- KDE Studio Gold
- Kylix
- TimeStorm
- Understand for C++
- SlickEdit
CASE
CASE-facility for UML
- Together ControlCenter
Top-level CASE System
- Rational Rose
Compilers
- Intel C++ Compiler
- Intel Fortran Compiler
- Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran Compiler
- XL C/C++ Compiler, IBM
- XL Fortran Compiler, IBM
Revision Control
HTML/DHTML Editor
InterBase/Firebird IDE
- IBAdmin
Java IDE
- Sun ONE Studio
Memory Leak Tracing
- BoundsChecker
- Insure
Object Pascal IDE
Perl/Python/Tcl IDE
Prolog
- SICStus Prolog
WYSIWYG HTML Editor
- IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder
Servers
WWW
- Abyss Web Server - original open source version is being developed as part of xmlrpc-c project now.
- Zeus Web Server
- Adobe JRun
- CGIProxy - source available for non-commercial use.
DB Engine
E-mail / Personal information manager / Groupware Servers
- CommuniGate Pro
- Bynari
- Lotus Domino
- NetMail
- Novell GroupWise
- Open-Xchange
- Scalix (based on HP OpenMail)
- SCOoffice Mail Server
- Teamware Office
- Zarafa
Product data/product lifecycle management (PDM/PLM)
Proxy
- SafeSquid Content Filtering HTTP1.1 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
- Pro/ENGINEER Linux
- Siemens NX[10]
CAD/CAM/CAE
- BricsCAD is an IntelliCAD based commercial CAD solution.
- VariCAD
- CYCAS by Verlag Frese
- Siemens NX
- QCAD professional is built on the QCAD opensource package.
- CATIA by Dassault Systèmes
Diagram and Chart Designing
HDD testing/benchmarking
- SPEC SFS
Game makers
- Maker3D is a 3D RPG creator software
- Tululoo Game Maker is a complex game creation environment
Emulators
Video game console emulators
- BoycottAdvance - Game Boy Advance emulator, freeware
- ePSXe - Sony Playstation emulator, freeware
- MAME - emulators for multiple arcade machines; source available for non-commercial use
- Regen - Sega Genesis / Mega Drive emulator
Virtual Machine Emulator
- Parallels Workstation
- QuickTransit
- VMware Workstation
- VMware Player
- VMware vCenter Converter
- VirtualBox (before version 4.x there was a closed-source edition, but now there is only one edition, and is open-source)
- Win4Lin (discontinued and unmaintained)
Windows Compatibility Layer
- Cedega Windows games compatibility layer (Cedega is based on the free compatibility layer Wine.)
- CrossOver (Crossover is based on the free compatibility layer Wine.)
See also
- Wine (software), a "compatibility layer" that allows many windows software to run on Linux (both proprietary and free)
- Lin-App A free, categorized and tagged on-line information service of various commercial applications and games for Linux.
References
- ^ See Lotus Notes 8.0 trial download
- ^ http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/
- ^ Debian Bug report logs - #364034. Accessed on: January 12, 2009.
- ^ TrueCrypt licensing concern Accessed on: April 20, 2009
- ^ Bug #109701 in Ubuntu. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
- ^ non-OSI compliant packages in the openSUSE Build Service. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
- ^ Gentoo bug 241650. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
- ^ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#TrueCrypt
- ^ "Teamcenter 2005 Delivers Comprehensive PLM Offering". Siemens PLM Software. 2006-06-20. http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/about_us/newsroom/press/press_release.cfm?Component=25352&ComponentTemplate=822. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
- ^ "UGS Ships NX 4 and Delivers Industry’s First Complete Digital Product Development Solution on Linux". 2009-04-04. http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/about_us/newsroom/press/press_release.cfm?Component=25399&ComponentTemplate=822. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
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