List Of Proprietary Software For Linux - Linux Software

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:

Networking

Web browsers

FTP clients

Firewall (packet filtering)

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

Visual traceroute

• VisualRoute

P2P File Sharing

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

"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers

• GHX

Multifunction sound modem program/s

• PrimaFax

Fax software

• Esker Fax
• Fax2Send
• FAXCOM
• MessagePlus/Open
• U-Fax
• Ictfax

Network maintenance

• HP Openview agents

Routing

• GateD

Distributed Computing

• Portable Batch System PBS Gridworks

Instant messaging

• Telegram (software)
• Skype
• Gadu-Gadu

P2P file synchronisation

• BitTorrent Sync

VoIP Software

• Skype
• Zoom client for linux

Desktop/System software

Work with files

Asset Management And Real Property

• Mapjects AssetFENCE Management of assets commercial and federal properties for leased and purchased sites.
• Mapjects RADAR Management of real commercial and federal properties for leased and purchased sites.
• MapjectsIMPORT for Linux â€" freeware, also available on other platforms, lets you import files across QuickBooks and Map them to assets in excel.

Console Archiver/s

• RAR

Desktop search

• Google Desktop 1.0, released June 27, 2007

File splitters

• HJSplit for Linux â€" freeware, also available on other platforms.

PDF viewer

PDF Authoring

• Adobe Acrobat Distiller

Cryptography

• Pretty Good Privacy

Scanner utilities

• VueScan
• Xvscan last updated in 2000

Antivirus

• Avast! Antivirus
• AVG Anti-Virus
• Bitdefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices (discontinued https://unices.bitdefender.com/)
• Dr. Web
• F-Prot (not to be confused with F-Secure)
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• NOD32 (server version)
• RAV Antivirus (discontinued)
• Trend Micro ServerProtect for Linux
• Vexira for Linux Fileserver
• Vexira for Linux Samba Server
• Comodo Group Anti-Virus for Linux

Bootloading

Acronis OS Selector opensource

Hard disk partitioning

• Acronis PartitionExpert
• Paragon Partition Manager

Backup software

PIM / DB / Hierarchical notebook with tree view

• TreePad Lite

File hosting service clients

• Dropbox (service)
• Mega (service)

Drivers

Printer driver

• TurboPrint
• Brother Industries
• Lexmark International
• Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Multimedia

Audio/Video

Digital audio workstation

• Bitwig Studio
• Mixbus
• Renoise
• Tracktion

MP3 Encoding

• L3enc (discontinued)

Score Writer

• Guitar Pro

Multimedia Player

• Fluendo DVD Player
• LinDVD
• Moovida Pro
• Musictube
• PowerDVD for Linux (discontinued)
• RealPlayer â€" (discontinued)

Music

• Dataplore
• Dataplore CMS
• energyXT
• Guitar Pro
• Loomer Aspect
• Loomer Manifold
• Loomer Resound
• Loomer Sequent
• Loomer Shift v2
• Loomer String
• MuSing
• Pianoteq
• RecordPad
• Transcribe!
• UltraMixer
• Spotify (beta)
• Netease Cloud Music

Graphics

Graphics viewers/editors

Professional Graphics Editors and photography

• AfterShot Pro
• Corel Photo-Paint 9 (discontinued)
• LightZone
• PaintSupreme
• Pixel32
• Pixeluvo

Digital imaging

• Bibble
• FX Photo Effects

2D Bitmap Animation and Paint

• TVPaint

Vector Graphics Editor/s

• Corel Draw 9 (discontinued)
• Edraw Max 8
• Xara Xtreme (discontinued)

Flash Player

• Adobe Flash Player â€" freeware

3D Graphics

• Chrono::R3D
• Houdini
• MASSIVE
• Maya
• AC3D
• VariCAD
• Softimage
• Substance Designer by Allegorithmic
• Substance Painter by Allegorithmic

Video, etc.

Simple/Professional Video Production Environment

• Autodesk/Discreet Flint/Flame/Inferno
• Autodesk/Discreet Smoke
• ifxAnt
• IFX Piranha
• Lightworks
• iMira Editing â€" (discontinued)
• MainActor (discontinued)

Creation of 2D and 3D Effects

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

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 Linux distributions, and even considered with "potential to be actively dangerous" by Fedora

Office/Business

Office suites

• ApplixWare Office (see Applixware Words)
• EIOffice
• HancomOffice
• SoftMaker Office
• StarOffice (discontinued)
• ThinkFree Office
• Yozo Office
• WPS Office (previously known as Kingsoft office)

Word processor

• StarOffice Writer (discontinued)
• TextMaker
• UltraCompare
• UltraEdit

Spreadsheets

• DataScene
• StarOffice Calc (discontinued)

Presentations

• PageStream
• StarOffice Presentation (discontinued)

Local database

• InterBase 7
• Rekall
• StarOffice Adabas D (discontinued)

E-Commerce and Web Business

• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Oracle Application Server â€" (discontinued)
• WebLogic

Personal Finance Manager

• Moneydance

Financial Accounting

• Global: Hansa Business Solutions
• India & Asia: Kalculate
• LeftHand MaÅ‚a Firma
• LeftHand MaÅ‚a Ksiegowość
• LeftHand PeÅ‚na KsiÄ™gowość
• LeftHand Sprzedaż i Magazyn
• LeftHand Stowarzyszenia i Fundacje
• Locbook

Enterprise Automation (Russian)

• Keeper
• Oblik

Collaboration Software

• Kerika
• TeamViewer â€" TeamViewer for Linux is based upon the Windows version using Wine.

Project Management

• 2-plan Desktop, free project management software.
• Cando Projects Server

Mind mapping/diagramming software

• Xmind (Pro Edition)
• yEd

Communications software

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

Games

• Airline Tycoon Deluxe
• Aliens versus Predator
• America's Army (discontinued)
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
• And Yet It Moves
• Ankh
• Ankh: Heart of Osiris
• Astro Battle
• A Tale in the Desert
• Bastion
• Ballistics
• Bionic Heart
• Bubble Shooter
• Cave Story
• Civilization: Call to Power
• Cold War
• Conquest of Elysium II
• Crusader Kings 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 (discontinued)
• 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 (Unfinished Port -Beta)
• MindRover
• Minecraft
• Mobility â€" last Linux version is 2.0
• Myth II: Soulblighter
• Neverwinter Nights (plus expansion packs)
• Oil Rush
• Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
• Out of the Park Baseball
• Penumbra: Black Plague
• Penumbra: Overture
• Portal
• Postal²
• Prey
• Quake (all versions)
• Railroad Tycoon II
• Raptor: Call of the Shadows (discontinued)
• 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 unfinished ports -Beta)
• Shadowgrounds
• Shadowgrounds Survivor
• Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• SimCity 3000
• SiN
• Sleepless Night
• Soldier of Fortune
• Space Combat
• Spheres of Chaos
• Summer Session
• Team Fortress 2
• Terminus
• The Labyrinth of Time
• Theocracy
• This Is Where I Want To Die
• Tibia
• Toribash
• Tribal Trouble
• Tribes II
• Turbo Sliders
• Ultima Online â€" (discontinued)
• Unreal Tournament
• Unreal Tournament 2003
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• 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 â€" (discontinued)
• SlickEdit
• TimeStorm
• Understand for C++

PHP IDE

• Zend Studio

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

• BitKeeper

HTML/DHTML Editor

• PajÄ…czek

InterBase/Firebird IDE

• IBAdmin

Java IDE

• Sun ONE Studio
• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA

Memory Leak Tracing

• BoundsChecker
• Insure

Object Pascal IDE

• Kylix

Perl/Python/Tcl IDE

• ActiveState Komodo
• JetBrains PyCharm
• Sublime Text 2

Prolog

• SICStus Prolog

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

• IndexFinger
• IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder

Servers

WWW

• Abyss Web Server â€" original open source version is being developed as part of xmlrpc-c project now.
• Adobe JRun
• CGIProxy â€" source available for non-commercial use.
• Zeus Web Server (discontinued)
• LiteSpeed Web Server

DB Engine

• IBM DB2
• Informix
• Oracle
• Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

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)

• Siemens Teamcenter

Proxy

• Opendium Iceni content control system targeted at schools

Cluster Filesystems

• Matrix Server

Managed File Transfer

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

Miscellaneous applications

Mathematics

• Magma
• Maple
• Mathematica
• MATLAB
• Xoctave Scientific Development Environment : Octave GUI

Statistical Packages

• R/Rstudio
• SPSS
• Stata
• TSP

3D Modelling

• CityEngine
• Pro/ENGINEER Linux (discontinued)
• Realsoft 3D
• Siemens NX
• PhotoScan by Agisoft

CAD/CAM/CAE

• Adina by ADINA R&D
• ARCAD 3D
• ARES Commander
• BricsCAD is an IntelliCAD based commercial CAD solution.
• CAM Expert Professional
• CATIA by Dassault Systèmes
• CYCAS by Verlag Frese
• DraftSight by Dassault Systèmes
• EAGLE
• RI-CAD
• MEDUSA
• Siemens NX
• Synergy by Weber Systems
• QCAD by RibbonSoft, professional is built on the QCAD opensource package.
• VariCAD by VariCAD s.r.o.

Diagram and Chart Designing

• DataScene
• Poseidon for UML

HDD testing/benchmarking

• SPEC SFS

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 â€" Linux version is based upon the Windows version using wine.

Emulators

Video game console emulators

Platform virtual machines

Windows Compatibility Layer

• Bordeaux
• 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.)