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 (software that isn't free and open-source) does exist and is available to end-users.

The following is a list of proprietary software for Linux:

Networking[edit]

Web browsers[edit]

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[a] Source code Pricing
Google Chrome Google Inc. Active Yes Partial[b] Freeware
Edge (Chromium) Microsoft Inc. Active Yes Partial Freeware
Netscape Netscape Communications Dropped Yes No Freeware
Opera Opera Software Active Yes No Freeware
Maxthon Cloud Browser Maxthon Active Yes No Freeware
Vivaldi Vivaldi Technologies Active Yes Partial[c] Freeware
Insight WebClient Bynari, Inc. N/A N/A N/A
IBM Notes IBM Active N/A No $108 – 175 USD
Yandex Browser Yandex Active Yes No Freeware

FTP clients[edit]

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
CrossFTP Pro CrossFTP Software Active Yes No $24.99 USD
Beyond Compare (Not FTP : Diff tool) Scooter Software Active Yes No $30.00 USD
sFTP Client sFTP App Ltd Active Yes No $30.00 USD
SecureFX VanDyke Software Active Yes No $59.95 USD

Firewall (packet filtering)[edit]

Visual traceroute[edit]

P2P file sharing[edit]

  • Loophole (WinMX protocol) – WinMX servers down since 09.2005
  • MetaMachine eDonkey2000 – latest release from 25.07.2005 (discontinued)
  • μTorrent Server

"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers[edit]

  • GHX

Multifunction sound modem programs[edit]

  • PrimaFax

Fax software[edit]

Network maintenance[edit]

Routing[edit]

  • GateD

Distributed computing[edit]

Instant messaging[edit]

P2P file synchronisation[edit]

VoIP software[edit]

Desktop/system software[edit]

Work with files[edit]

Console archivers[edit]

Desktop search[edit]

File splitters[edit]

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

PDF viewers[edit]

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[d] Source code Pricing
Adobe Reader Adobe Systems Dropped[e] Yes No Freeware
Foxit Reader Foxit Software Active Yes No Freeware
PDF Studio Pro Qoppa Software Active No[f] No $129 USD
PDF Studio Standard Qoppa Software Active No[f] No $89 USD
  1. ^ Refers to the existence of an ELF or a.out binary targeting the Linux ABI. Applications that use a compatibility layer such as Wine or use an interpreted language are listed as "No", with a note explaining why
  2. ^ Most of the source code is provided by the Chromium project. The source code for the Flash player is excluded.
  3. ^ Most of the source code is provided by the Chromium project. The source code for the user interface is excluded.
  4. ^ Refers to the existence of an ELF or a.out binary targeting the Linux ABI. Applications that use a compatibility layer such as Wine or use an interpreted language are listed as "No", with a note explaining why
  5. ^ Last Linux version is 9.5.5
  6. ^ a b Java

PDF authoring[edit]

Cryptography[edit]

Scanner utilities[edit]

Antivirus[edit]

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[a] Source code Pricing
AntiVir Workstation PersonalEdition Avira Dropped N/A N/A N/A
  1. ^ Refers to the existence of an ELF or a.out binary targeting the Linux ABI. Applications that use a compatibility layer such as Wine or use an interpreted language are listed as "No", with a note explaining why

Bootloader / Boot manager[edit]

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[a] Source code Pricing
Acronis OS Selector
Plop Boot Manager Elmar Hanlhofer Active N/A No Freeware
  1. ^ Refers to the existence of an ELF or a.out binary targeting the Linux ABI. Applications that use a compatibility layer such as Wine or use an interpreted language are listed as "No", with a note explaining why

Hard disk partitioning[edit]

  • Acronis PartitionExpert
  • Paragon Partition Manager

Backup software[edit]

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[a] Source code Pricing
BRU Workstation/Desktop/Server TOLIS Group, Inc. Active N/A N/A $499 – 4,999 USD[b]
EMC NetWorker EMC Corporation Active N/A N/A N/A
ImgBurn Lightning UK Active No[c] No Freeware
Microlite BackupEDGE Microlite Corporation Active Yes N/A $400 – 500 USD[d]
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 Novosoft LLC
Veeam Veeam Software Active Freeware
  1. ^ Refers to the existence of an ELF or a.out binary targeting the Linux ABI. Applications that use a compatibility layer such as Wine or use an interpreted language are listed as "No", with a note explaining why
  2. ^ TOLIS Group Product Pricing
  3. ^ Developer officially supports running Windows binary with Wine
  4. ^ Microlite BackupEDGE Pricing

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

  • TreePad Lite

File hosting service clients[edit]

Drivers[edit]

Printer drivers[edit]

Multimedia[edit]

Audio/video[edit]

Digital audio workstations[edit]

MP3 encoding[edit]

Score writers[edit]

Multimedia players[edit]

Music[edit]

Graphics[edit]

Graphics viewers/editors[edit]

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[a] 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[b] No Freeware
Sketsa SVG Editor KIYUT Software Active No[c] No $89 USD
XnView MP Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet Active Yes No Freeware
Xv John Bradley Partial[d] Yes Yes $35 USD
  1. ^ Refers to the existence of an ELF or a.out binary targeting the Linux ABI. Applications that use a compatibility layer such as Wine or use an interpreted language are listed as "No", with a note explaining why
  2. ^ Publisher bundled the application with Wine
  3. ^ Cross-platform Java application
  4. ^ Application is still available, but no longer actively developed

Professional graphics editors and photography[edit]

Digital imaging[edit]

2D bitmap animation and paint[edit]

Vector graphics editors[edit]

Flash players[edit]

3D graphics[edit]

Video, etc.[edit]

Simple/professional video production environments[edit]

Creation of 2D and 3D effects[edit]

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

Miscellaneous[edit]

Office/business[edit]

Office suites[edit]

Word processors[edit]

Spreadsheets[edit]

Presentations[edit]

Local databases[edit]

Desktop publishing[edit]

E-commerce and web business[edit]

Personal finance managers[edit]

Financial accounting[edit]

Enterprise automation (Russian)[edit]

  • Keeper
  • Oblik

Collaboration software[edit]

Project management[edit]

Mind mapping/diagramming software[edit]

Communications software[edit]

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

Games[edit]

Game distribution platforms[edit]

Action-adventure[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Ark: Survival Evolved
Heretic II
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness

Adventure[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb
Jack Keane
Machinarium

Business simulation[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Airline Tycoon Deluxe

Card[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire

City simulation[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Mobility last Linux version is 2.0

First-person shooter[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Aliens versus Predator
America's Army Dropped
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Valve Active
Dark Horizons Lore: Invasion
Descent³
Doom 3
Duke Nukem 3D
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Grappling Hook
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Unfinished beta
Postal²
Team Fortress 2[9] Valve Active
Unreal Tournament GT Interactive Software
Unreal Tournament 2003 Infogrames Entertainment
Unreal Tournament 2004 Atari

Graphic adventure[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Ankh
Ankh: Heart of Osiris

MMORPG[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
A Tale in the Desert

Platformer[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
And Yet It Moves
Cave Story
Inner Worlds
Marble Blast Gold
Portal

Puzzle[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Bubble Shooter
Hyperspace Delivery Boy!

Racing[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Ballistics
H-Craft Championship

Real-time tactics[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Myth II: Soulblighter

Role-playing game (RPG)[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Bastion
Cute Knight
Eschalon: Book I
Eschalon: Book II
Exile III:Ruined World
Gorky 17
Neverwinter Nights

Shoot 'em up[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Astro Battle
Jets'n'Guns

Stealth[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Cold War

Strategy[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Civilization: Call to Power
Conquest of Elysium II
Crusader Kings II
DEFCON
Darwinia
Dominions: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders
Dominions II: The Ascension Wars
Dominions 3: The Awakening
Europa Universalis IV
Galcon
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Knights and Merchants
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Lux
Majesty Gold
Oil Rush

Survival horror[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Penumbra: Black Plague
Penumbra: Overture

Sports simulator[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Out of the Park Baseball

Third-person shooter[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²

Visual novel[edit]

Game Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Bionic Heart
Digital: A Love Story
Heileen 2: The Hands of Fate

Programming and development[edit]

C++ IDEs[edit]

PHP IDE[edit]

CASE[edit]

CASE-facility for UML[edit]

  • Together ControlCenter

Top-level CASE system[edit]

  • Rational Rose

Compilers[edit]

Revision control[edit]

HTML/DHTML editors[edit]

InterBase/Firebird IDE[edit]

Java IDE[edit]

Memory leak tracing[edit]

  • Insure

Object Pascal IDE[edit]

Perl/Python/Tcl IDE[edit]

Prolog[edit]

WYSIWYG HTML editors[edit]

Servers[edit]

SSH Client/Server[edit]

Web Hosting Control Panel[edit]

WWW[edit]

DB engines[edit]

E-mail / personal information manager / groupware servers[edit]

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

Proxy[edit]

Cluster filesystems[edit]

  • Matrix Server

Managed file transfer[edit]

  • Serv-U File Server – managed file transfer server, supporting FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, and HTTPS file transfer methods

Streaming media servers[edit]

Miscellaneous applications[edit]

Mathematics[edit]

Statistical packages[edit]

3D modelling[edit]

CAD/CAM/CAE[edit]

Diagram and chart designing[edit]

Dictionaries[edit]

  • Lunestar – an English-Turkish dictionary, freeware

HDD testing/benchmarking[edit]

Game makers[edit]

Real property, Building Information Management & Asset management[edit]

  • Mapjects AssetFENCE – management of assets both commercial, industrial & federal properties for leased and purchased sites
  • Mapjects RADAR – management of real property commercial and federal properties for leased and purchased sites
  • MapjectsIMPORT for Linux – freeware, also available on other platforms, lets users import files across QuickBooks, Archibus, AutoDesk CAD and Map them to assets in excel

SQL dataBases GUI admin tools[edit]

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

Emulators[edit]

Video game console emulators[edit]

Application Publisher Support status Native binary[a] Source code Pricing
BoycottAdvance[b] • Julien Frelat
• Richard Bannister
• Niels Wagenaar 		Dropped[c] Yes No Freeware
ePSXe[d] ePSXe Team Active Yes No Freeware
Regen[e] AamirM Active Yes No Freeware
  1. ^ Refers to the existence of an ELF or a.out binary targeting the Linux ABI. Applications that use a compatibility layer such as Wine or use an interpreted language are listed as "No", with a note explaining why
  2. ^ Game Boy Advance emulator
  3. ^ Last Linux-compatible version was 0.2.6; current version is 0.2.8
  4. ^ Sony PlayStation emulator
  5. ^ Sega Genesis / Mega Drive emulator

Platform virtual machines[edit]

Application Publisher Support status Native binary Source code Pricing
Parallels Workstation Parallels, Inc. Terminated[a] N/A No No longer sold
QuickTransit
VMware Player
VMware vCenter Converter
VMware Workstation
Oracle VM VirtualBox Enterprise
Win4Lin
Discontinued
  1. ^ Product is no longer supported on any platform

Windows compatibility layer[edit]

Notes[edit]

A.^A Open-source drivers are available through HP Linux Imaging and Printing [12]

See also[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ ltd., tummy.com. "Solutions – tummy.com, ltd". www.tummy.com.
  2. ^ "Pixeluvo – Beautiful Images Made Easy". www.pixeluvo.com.
  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. ^ "Forbidden items - Fedora Project Wiki". fedoraproject.org.
  9. ^ "Team Fortress 2". Valve. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  10. ^ "Teamcenter 2005 Delivers Comprehensive PLM Offering". Siemens PLM Software. 2006-06-20. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
  11. ^ "UGS Ships NX 4 and Delivers Industry's First Complete Digital Product Development Solution on Linux". 2009-04-04. Retrieved 2009-06-20.
  12. ^ https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing

External links[edit]

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