List of proprietary software for Linux

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Linux is an open-source operating system 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

[edit] Networking

[edit] 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)
  • Netscape — freeware, last Linux version is 7.2 (discontinued)
  • Opera — freeware, offers free and easy to download Web browsers for computers, mobile phones and devices.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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:

[edit] Firewall (packet filtering)

  • SmoothWall Corporate — A closed fork of SmoothWall, targeted at enterprise and corporate users

[edit] Visual traceroute

[edit] P2P File Sharing

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

[edit] "Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers

  • GHX

[edit] Multifunction sound modem program/s

  • PrimaFax

[edit] Fax software

[edit] Network maintenance

[edit] Routing

  • GateD

[edit] Distributed Computing

[edit] Desktop/System software

[edit] Work with files

[edit] Console Archiver/s

[edit] Desktop search

[edit] File splitters

[edit] PDF viewer

[edit] PDF Authoring

[edit] Cryptography

[edit] Scanner utilities

[edit] Antivirus

[edit] Bootloading

  • Acronis OS Selector

[edit] Hard disk partitioning

[edit] Backup software

[edit] PIM / DB / Hierarchical notebook with tree view

[edit] Drivers

[edit] Printer driver

[edit] Multimedia

[edit] Audio/Video

[edit] MP3 Encoding

[edit] Score Writer

[edit] Multimedia Player

[edit] Music

[edit] Graphics

[edit] Graphics viewers/editors

[edit] Professional Graphics Editors

[edit] Digital imaging

[edit] 2D Bitmap Animation and Paint

[edit] Vector Graphics Editor/s

[edit] Flash Player

[edit] 3D Graphics

[edit] Video, etc.

[edit] Simple/Professional Video Production Environment

[edit] Creation of 2D and 3D Effects

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

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Office/Business

[edit] Office suites

[edit] Word Processor

[edit] Spreadsheets

[edit] Presentations

[edit] Local database

[edit] E-Commerce and Web Business

[edit] Personal Finance Manager

[edit] Financial Accounting

[edit] Enterprise Automation (Russian)

  • Keeper
  • Oblik

[edit] Collaboration Software

  • Kerika
  • TeamViewer - TeamViewer for Linux is based upon the Windows version using wine.

[edit] Project Management

[edit] Communications software

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

[edit] Games

[edit] Programming and development

[edit] C++ IDEs

[edit] CASE

[edit] CASE-facility for UML

  • Together ControlCenter

[edit] Top-level CASE System

  • Rational Rose

[edit] Compilers

[edit] Revision Control

[edit] HTML/DHTML Editor

[edit] InterBase/Firebird IDE

[edit] Java IDE

  • Sun ONE Studio

[edit] Memory Leak Tracing

  • BoundsChecker
  • Insure

[edit] Object Pascal IDE

[edit] Perl/Python/Tcl IDE

[edit] Prolog

  • SICStus Prolog

[edit] WYSIWYG HTML Editor

[edit] Others

[edit] Servers

[edit] WWW

[edit] DB Engine

[edit] E-mail / Personal information manager / Groupware Servers

[edit] Product data/product lifecycle management (PDM/PLM)

[edit] Proxy

[edit] Cluster Filesystems

  • Matrix Server

[edit] Managed File Transfer

[edit] Miscellaneous applications

[edit] Mathematics

[edit] Statistical Packages

[edit] 3D Modelling

[edit] CAD/CAM/CAE

[edit] Diagram and Chart Designing

[edit] HDD testing/benchmarking

[edit] Game makers

[edit] Emulators

[edit] Video game console emulators

[edit] Virtual Machine Emulator

[edit] Windows Compatibility Layer

  • Cedega Windows games compatibility layer (Cedega is based on the free compatibility layer Wine.) (discontinued)
  • CrossOver (Crossover is based on the free compatibility layer Wine.)

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

  1. ^ See Lotus Notes 8.0 trial download
  2. ^ http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/
  3. ^ Debian Bug report logs - #364034. Accessed on: January 12, 2009.
  4. ^ TrueCrypt licensing concern Accessed on: April 20, 2009
  5. ^ Bug #109701 in Ubuntu. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
  6. ^ non-OSI compliant packages in the openSUSE Build Service. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
  7. ^ Gentoo bug 241650. Accessed on: April 20, 2009
  8. ^ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#TrueCrypt
  9. ^ "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. 
  10. ^ "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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