List of proprietary software for Linux

Networking

Web browsers

FTP clients

Firewall (packet filtering)

• Opendium Web Gateway – part of a content control system targeted at schools
• Opendium UTM – part of a content control system targeted at schools
• SmoothWall Corporate – a closed fork of SmoothWall, targeted at enterprise and corporate users

  Visual traceroute

• VisualRoute

  P2P file sharing

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

  "Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers

• GHX

  Multifunction sound modem programs

• PrimaFax

  Fax software

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

  Network maintenance

• HP Openview agents

  Routing

• GateD

  [Distributed computing]

• Portable Batch System PBS Gridworks

  Instant messaging

• Skype
• ICQ
• Viber
• Trillian

  P2P file synchronisation

• BitTorrent Sync

  VoIP software

• Skype
• Zoom client for Linux

  Desktop/system software

Work with files

Console archivers

• RAR
• B1 Free Archiver

  Desktop search

• Google Desktop 1.0, released June 27, 2007

  File splitters

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

  [PDF] viewers

PDF authoring

• Adobe Acrobat Distiller

  Cryptography

• Pretty Good Privacy

  Scanner utilities

• VueScan
• Xvscan last updated in 2000

  Antivirus

• Avast! Antivirus
• AVG Anti-Virus
• Bitdefender GravityZone
• Comodo Group Anti-Virus for Linux
• Dr. Web
• F-Prot
• Kaspersky Anti-Virus
• ESET NOD32
• RAV Antivirus
• Sophos Antivirus for Linux
• Trend Micro ServerProtect for Linux
• Vexira for Linux Fileserver
• Vexira for Linux Samba Server

  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
• Mega

  Drivers

Printer drivers

• Brother Industries
• Hewlett-Packard
• Lexmark International
• TurboPrint

  Multimedia

Audio/video

[Digital audio workstation]s

• Bitwig Studio
• Mixbus
• ocenaudio
• REAPER
• Renoise
• Tracktion

  [MP3] encoding

• L3enc

  Score writers

• Guitar Pro

  Multimedia players

• Fluendo DVD Player
• LinDVD
• Moovida Pro
• Musictube
• PowerDVD for Linux
• JRiver Media Center
• RealPlayer

  Music

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

  Graphics

Graphics viewers/editors

Professional graphics editors and photography

• AfterShot Pro
• Corel Photo-Paint 9
• PaintSupreme
• Pixel32
• Pixeluvo

  Digital imaging

• Bibble
• FX Photo Effects

  2D bitmap animation and paint

• Harmony
• TVPaint

  Vector graphics editors

• Corel Draw 9
• Edraw Max 9.4
• Xara Xtreme

  Flash players

• Adobe Flash Player – freeware

  3D graphics

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

  Video, etc.

Simple/professional video production environments

• Autodesk/Discreet Flint/Flame/Inferno
• Autodesk/Discreet Smoke
• IFX Piranha
• ifxAnt
• Lightworks
• DaVinci Resolve
• iMira Editing
• MainActor

  Creation of 2D and 3D effects

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

  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
• EIOffice
• HancomOffice
• SoftMaker Office
• StarOffice
• ThinkFree Office
• WPS Office
• Yozo Office

  Word processors

• StarOffice Writer
• TextMaker
• UltraCompare
• UltraEdit
• WPS Writer

  Spreadsheets

• DataScene
• StarOffice Calc
• WPS Spreadsheet

  Presentations

• PageStream
• StarOffice Presentation
• WPS Presentation

  Local databases

• InterBase 7
• Rekall
• StarOffice Adabas D

  E-commerce and web business

• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• Oracle Application Server
• WebLogic

  Personal finance managers

• Moneydance

  Financial accounting

• Hansa Business Solutions – global
• Kalculate – India and Asia
• LeftHand Mała Firma
• LeftHand Mała Ksiegowość
• LeftHand Pełna Księgowość
• LeftHand Sprzedaż i Magazyn
• LeftHand Stowarzyszenia i Fundacje
• Locbook

  Enterprise automation (Russian)

• Keeper
• Oblik

  Collaboration software

• Kerika
• Microsoft Teams
• TeamViewer – TeamViewer for Linux is based upon the Windows version using Wine.
• Slack

  Project management

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

  Mind mapping/diagramming software

• Xmind
• yEd
• WireframeSketcher
• EdrawMax

  Communications software

• EasyIVR Call processing – for Linux

  Games

• Steam
• A Tale in the Desert
• Airline Tycoon Deluxe
• Aliens versus Predator
• America's Army
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• And Yet It Moves
• Ankh
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• Astro Battle
• Ballistics
• Bastion
• Bionic Heart
• Bubble Shooter
• Cave Story
• '
• Cold War
• Conquest of Elysium II
• '
• Crusader Kings II
• Cute Knight
• DEFCON
• '
• Darwinia
• Descent³
• '
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• Doom 3
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Dwarf Fortress
• '
• Enter the Gungeon
• Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
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• Europa Universalis IV
• Exile III:Ruined World
• Factorio
• FizzBall
• Galcon
• Garry's Mod
• Gorky 17
• Grappling Hook
• H-Craft Championship
• '
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• Heretic II
• Heroes of Might and Magic III
• Heroes of Newerth
• Hyperspace Delivery Boy!
• '
• Inner Worlds
• Jack Keane
• Jets'n'Guns
• Knights and Merchants
• '
• Lux
• Machinarium
• Majesty Gold
• Marble Blast Gold
• '
• MindRover
• Minecraft
• Mobility – last Linux version is 2.0
• '
• Neverwinter Nights
• Oil Rush
• Out of the Park Baseball
• '
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• Portal
• Postal²
• Prey
• Quake
• Railroad Tycoon II
• '
• Regnum Online
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• RimWorld
• Rise of the Triad
• '
• Rune
• Savage 2
• '
• Serious Sam
• Shadowgrounds Survivor
• Shadowgrounds
• '
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• SimCity 3000
• SiN
• Sleepless Night
• Soldier of Fortune
• Space Combat
• Spheres of Chaos
• Stardew Valley
• Summer Session
• Tabletop Simulator
• Team Fortress 2
• Terminus
• Terraria
• The Labyrinth of Time
• Theocracy
• This Is Where I Want To Die
• Tibia
• Toribash
• '
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• Tribal Trouble
• Tribes II
• Ultima Online
• Unreal Tournament 2003
• Unreal Tournament 2004
• Unreal Tournament
• Uplink
• Vendetta Online
• World of Goo
• X-Plane
• Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates

  Programming and development

[C++] IDEs">Integrated development environment">IDEs

• Code Crusader
• CodeWarrior
• KDE Studio Gold
• Kylix
• SlickEdit
• TimeStorm
• UEStudio
• Understand for C++
• JetBrains CLion

  PHP IDE

• Zend Studio
• JetBrains PHPStorm

  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] editors

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code
• JetBrains PyCharm

  [InterBase]/Firebird">Firebird (database server)">Firebird IDE

• IBAdmin

  Java">Java (programming language)">Java IDE

• JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
• Sun ONE Studio

  Memory leak tracing

• Insure

  Object Pascal IDE

• Kylix

  [Perl]/Python">Python (programming language)">Python/[Tcl] IDE

• ActiveState Komodo
• JetBrains PyCharm
• Sublime Text

  Prolog

• SICStus Prolog

  [WYSIWYG] [HTML] editors

• IBM WebSphere Homepage Builder
• IndexFinger
• BlueGriffon

  Servers

SSH Client/Server

• SecureCRT/VShell Server
• Termius
• Tectia SSH

  Web Hosting Control Panel

• cPanel
• DirectAdmin
• Plesk

  [WWW]

• Abyss Web Server – original open source version is being developed as part of xmlrpc-c project
• Adobe JRun
• CGIProxy – source available for non-commercial use
• LiteSpeed Web Server
• Zeus Web Server

  DB engines

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

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

• Bynari
• CommuniGate Pro
• Lotus Domino
• NetMail
• Novell GroupWise
• Open-Xchange
• Scalix
• SCOoffice Mail Server
• Teamware Office
• Zarafa
• Mailspring
• Hiri
• InScribe

  Product data/product lifecycle management (PDM">Product Data Management">PDM/PLM">Product Lifecycle Management">PLM)

• Siemens Teamcenter

  Proxy

• Opendium Web Gateway content control system targeted at schools
• Opendium UTM content control system targeted at schools

  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

  Streaming media servers

• Emby
• Plex

  Miscellaneous applications

Mathematics

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

  Statistical packages

• R/Rstudio
• SPSS
• Stata
• TSP

  3D modelling

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

  CAD">Computer-aided design">CAD/CAM">Computer-aided manufacturing">CAM/CAE">Computer-aided engineering">CAE

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

  Diagram and chart designing

• DataScene
• Poseidon for UML
• Visual Paradigm

  Dictionaries

• Lunestar – an English-Turkish dictionary, freeware

  HDD testing/benchmarking

• SPEC SFS

  Game makers

• Maker3D – a 3D RPG creation software
• Tululoo Game Maker – a complex game creation system environment

  Real property, Building Information Management & Asset management

• 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

• Navicat – 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; based on the free compatibility layer Wine
• CrossOver – based on the free compatibility layer Wine.