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.
Contents
1Networking
1.1Web browsers
1.2FTP clients
1.3Firewall (packet filtering)
1.4Visual traceroute
1.5P2P file sharing
1.6"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers
1.7Multifunction sound modem programs
1.8Fax software
1.9Network maintenance
1.10Routing
1.11Distributed computing
1.12Instant messaging
1.13P2P file synchronisation
1.14VoIP software
2Desktop/system software
2.1Work with files
2.1.1Console archivers
2.1.2Desktop search
2.1.3File splitters
2.2PDF viewers
2.3PDF authoring
2.4Cryptography
2.5Scanner utilities
2.6Antivirus
2.7Bootloader / Boot manager
2.8Hard disk partitioning
2.9Backup software
2.10PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view
2.11File hosting service clients
3Drivers
3.1Printer drivers
4Multimedia
4.1Audio/video
4.1.1Digital audio workstations
4.1.2MP3 encoding
4.1.3Score writers
4.1.4Multimedia players
4.1.5Music
4.2Graphics
4.2.1Graphics viewers/editors
4.2.2Professional graphics editors and photography
4.2.3Digital imaging
4.2.42D bitmap animation and paint
4.2.5Vector graphics editors
4.2.6Flash players
4.2.73D graphics
4.3Video, etc.
4.3.1Simple/professional video production environments
4.3.2Creation of 2D and 3D effects
4.3.3Miscellaneous
5Office/business
5.1Office suites
5.2Word processors
5.3Spreadsheets
5.4Presentations
5.5Local databases
5.6Desktop publishing
5.7E-commerce and web business
5.8Personal finance managers
5.9Financial accounting
5.10Enterprise automation (Russian)
5.11Collaboration software
5.12Project management
5.13Mind mapping/diagramming software
5.14Communications software
6Games
6.1Game distribution platforms
6.2Action-adventure
6.3Adventure
6.4Business simulation
6.5Card
6.6City simulation
6.7First-person shooter
6.8Graphic adventure
6.9MMORPG
6.10Platformer
6.11Puzzle
6.12Racing
6.13Real-time tactics
6.14Role-playing game (RPG)
6.15Shoot 'em up
6.16Stealth
6.17Strategy
6.18Survival horror
6.19Sports simulator
6.20Third-person shooter
6.21Visual novel
7Programming and development
7.1C++ IDEs
7.2PHP IDE
7.3CASE
7.3.1CASE-facility for UML
7.3.2Top-level CASE system
7.4Compilers
7.5Revision control
7.6HTML/DHTML editors
7.7InterBase/Firebird IDE
7.8Java IDE
7.9Memory leak tracing
7.10Object Pascal IDE
7.11Perl/Python/Tcl IDE
7.12Prolog
7.13WYSIWYG HTML editors
8Servers
8.1SSH Client/Server
8.2Web Hosting Control Panel
8.3WWW
8.4DB engines
8.5E-mail / personal information manager / groupware servers
9.9Real property, Building Information Management & Asset management
9.10SQL dataBases GUI admin tools
9.11Remote Desktop
10Emulators
10.1Video game console emulators
10.2Platform virtual machines
10.3Windows compatibility layer
11Notes
12See also
13References
14External links
Networking
Web browsers
Application
Publisher
Support status
Native binary[lower-alpha 1]
Source code
Pricing
Google Chrome
Google Inc.
Active
Yes
Partial[lower-alpha 2]
Freeware
Edge (Chromium)
Microsoft Inc.
Active
Yes
Partial
Freeware
Netscape
Netscape Communications
Dropped
Yes
Yes
Freeware
Opera
Opera Software
Active
Yes
Yes
Freeware
Maxthon Cloud Browser
Maxthon
Active
Yes
Yes
Freeware
Vivaldi
Vivaldi Technologies
Active
Yes
Partial[lower-alpha 3]
Freeware
Insight WebClient
Bynari, Inc.
N/A
N/A
N/A
IBM Notes
IBM
Active
N/A
Yes
$108 – 175 USD
Yandex Browser
Yandex
Active
Yes
Yes
Freeware
FTP clients
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
Yes
N/A
SynchronEX+
Xellsoft Software Services
Active
Yes
Yes
$0.00 USD
CrossFTP Pro
CrossFTP Software
Active
Yes
Yes
$24.99 USD
Beyond Compare (Not FTP : Diff tool)
Scooter Software
Active
Yes
Yes
$30.00 USD
sFTP Client
sFTP App Ltd
Active
Yes
Yes
$30.00 USD
SecureFX
VanDyke Software
Active
Yes
No
$59.95 USD
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 protocol) – WinMX servers down since 09.2005
MetaMachine eDonkey2000 – latest release from 25.07.2005 (discontinued)
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
Discord
Skype
ICQ
Viber
Trillian
P2P file synchronisation
BitTorrent Sync
VoIP software
Skype
Zoom client for Linux
alfaview
Desktop/system software
Work with files
Console archivers
RAR
B1 Free Archiver
Desktop search
Google Desktop (discontinued) 1.0, released June 27, 2007
File splitters
HJSplit for Linux – freeware, also available on other platforms
PDF viewers
Application
Publisher
Support status
Native binary[lower-alpha 4]
Source code
Pricing
Adobe Reader
Adobe Systems
Dropped[lower-alpha 5]
Yes
No
Freeware
Foxit Reader
Foxit Software
Active
Yes
No
Freeware
PDF Studio Pro
Qoppa Software
Active
No[lower-alpha 6]
No
$129 USD
PDF Studio Standard
Qoppa Software
Active
No[lower-alpha 6]
No
$89 USD
↑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
↑Most of the source code is provided by the Chromium project. The source code for the Flash player is excluded.
↑Most of the source code is provided by the Chromium project. The source code for the user interface is excluded.
↑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
↑Last Linux version is 9.5.5
↑ 6.06.1Java
PDF authoring
Adobe Acrobat Distiller (discontinued)
Cryptography
Pretty Good Privacy
Scanner utilities
VueScan
Xvscan last updated in 2000[1]
Antivirus
Application
Publisher
Support status
Native binary[lower-alpha 1]
Source code
Pricing
AntiVir Workstation PersonalEdition
Avira
Dropped
N/A
N/A
N/A
↑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
Avast! Antivirus
AVG Anti-Virus
Bitdefender GravityZone
Comodo Group Anti-Virus for Linux
Dr. Web
F-Prot (not to be confused with F-Secure)
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
ESET NOD32
RAV Antivirus (discontinued)
Sophos Antivirus for Linux
Trend Micro ServerProtect for Linux
Vexira for Linux Fileserver
Vexira for Linux Samba Server
Bootloader / Boot manager
Application
Publisher
Support status
Native binary[lower-alpha 1]
Source code
Pricing
Acronis OS Selector
Plop Boot Manager
Elmar Hanlhofer
Active
N/A
No
Freeware
↑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
Acronis PartitionExpert
Paragon Partition Manager
Backup software
Application
Publisher
Support status
Native binary[lower-alpha 1]
Source code
Pricing
BRU Workstation/Desktop/Server
TOLIS Group, Inc.
Active
N/A
N/A
$499 – 4,999 USD[lower-alpha 2]
EMC NetWorker
EMC Corporation
Active
N/A
N/A
N/A
ImgBurn
Lightning UK
Active
No[lower-alpha 3]
No
Freeware
Microlite BackupEDGE
Microlite Corporation
Active
Yes
N/A
$400 – 500 USD[lower-alpha 4]
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
↑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
↑TOLIS Group Product Pricing
↑Developer officially supports running Windows binary with Wine
↑Microlite BackupEDGE Pricing
PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view
TreePad Lite
File hosting service clients
Dropbox
Mega
Drivers
Printer drivers
Brother Industries
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Lexmark International
TurboPrint
Multimedia
Audio/video
Digital audio workstations
Bitwig Studio
Mixbus
ocenaudio
REAPER (experimentally)
Renoise
Tracktion
MP3 encoding
L3enc (discontinued)
Score writers
Guitar Pro
Multimedia players
Fluendo DVD Player
LinDVD
Moovida Pro
Musictube
PowerDVD for Linux (discontinued)
JRiver Media Center
RealPlayer (discontinued)
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
Application
Publisher
Support status
Native binary[lower-alpha 1]
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[lower-alpha 2]
No
Freeware
Sketsa SVG Editor
KIYUT Software
Active
No[lower-alpha 3]
No
$89 USD
XnView MP
Pierre-Emmanuel Gougelet
Active
Yes
No
Freeware
Xv
John Bradley
Partial[lower-alpha 4]
Yes
Yes
$35 USD
↑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
↑Publisher bundled the application with Wine
↑Cross-platform Java application
↑Application is still available, but no longer actively developed
Professional graphics editors and photography
AfterShot Pro
Corel Photo-Paint 9 (discontinued)
PaintSupreme
Pixel32
Pixeluvo[2]
Digital imaging
Bibble
FX Photo Effects
2D bitmap animation and paint
Harmony
TVPaint
Vector graphics editors
Corel Draw 9 (discontinued)
Edraw Max 9.4
Xara Xtreme (discontinued)
Flash players
Adobe Flash Player – freeware
3D graphics
AC3D
Chrono::R3D
Houdini
MASSIVE
Maya
Softimage
MODO
Substance Designer by Adobe
Substance Painter by Adobe
Mari by The Foundry Visionmongers
VariCAD
Video, etc.
Simple/professional video production environments
Autodesk/Discreet Flint/Flame/Inferno
Autodesk/Discreet Smoke
IFX Piranha
ifxAnt
Lightworks
DaVinci Resolve
iMira Editing (discontinued)
MainActor (discontinued)
Creation of 2D and 3D effects
Fusion – Linux version is based upon the Windows version using wine.
Nuke
Shake (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,[3][4][5][6][7] and even considered with "potential to be actively dangerous" by Fedora[8]
Office/business
Office suites
ApplixWare Office (see Applixware Words)
EIOffice
HancomOffice
SoftMaker Office
ThinkFree Office
WPS Office (previously known as Kingsoft Office)
Yozo Office
Word processors
TextMaker
UltraCompare
UltraEdit
WPS Writer
Spreadsheets
DataScene
WPS Spreadsheet
Presentations
PageStream
WPS Presentation
Local databases
InterBase 7
Rekall
StarOffice Adabas D (discontinued)
Desktop publishing
VivaDesigner
E-commerce and web business
IBM WebSphere Application Server
Oracle Application Server (discontinued)
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
Slack
Project management
Cando Projects Server
Mind mapping/diagramming software
Xmind (Pro Edition)
yEd
WireframeSketcher
EdrawMax
Communications software
EasyIVR Call processing (IVR, CTI, ACD) – for Linux
Games
Game distribution platforms
Steam
Action-adventure
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Ark
Heretic II
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Adventure
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb
Jack Keane
Machinarium
Business simulation
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Airline Tycoon Deluxe
Card
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
City simulation
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Mobility
last Linux version is 2.0
First-person shooter
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Aliens versus Predator
America's Army
Dropped
Counter-Strike
Valve
Active
Dark Horizons Lore
Descent³
Doom 3
Duke Nukem 3D
Enemy Territory
Grappling Hook
Medal of Honor
Unfinished beta
Postal²
Team Fortress 2[9]
Valve
Active
Unreal Tournament
GT Interactive
Unreal Tournament 2003
Infogrames
Unreal Tournament 2004
Atari
Graphic adventure
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Ankh
Ankh
MMORPG
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
A Tale in the Desert
Platformer
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
And Yet It Moves
Cave Story
Inner Worlds
Marble Blast Gold
Portal
Puzzle
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Bubble Shooter
Hyperspace Delivery Boy!
Racing
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Ballistics
H-Craft Championship
Real-time tactics
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Myth II
Role-playing game (RPG)
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Bastion
Cute Knight
Eschalon
Eschalon
Exile III:Ruined World
Gorky 17
Neverwinter Nights
Shoot 'em up
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Astro Battle
Jets'n'Guns
Stealth
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Cold War
Strategy
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Civilization
Conquest of Elysium II
Crusader Kings II
DEFCON
Darwinia
Dominions
Dominions II
Dominions 3
Europa Universalis IV
Galcon
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Knights and Merchants
Kohan
Lux
Majesty Gold
Oil Rush
Survival horror
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Amnesia
Penumbra
Penumbra
Sports simulator
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Out of the Park Baseball
Third-person shooter
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.²
Visual novel
Game
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Bionic Heart
Digital
Heileen 2: The Hands of Fate
Dwarf Fortress
Enter the Gungeon
Factorio
FizzBall (discontinued)
Garry's Mod
Heroes of Newerth
MindRover
Minecraft
Prey
Quake (all versions)
Railroad Tycoon II
Raptor (discontinued)
Regnum Online
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
RimWorld
Rise of the Triad
Robin Hood
Rune
Savage 2
Savage
Serious Sam (all versions unfinished ports; beta)
Shadowgrounds Survivor
Shadowgrounds
Shogo
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
SimCity 3000
SiN
Sleepless Night
Soldier of Fortune
Space Combat
Spheres of Chaos
Stardew Valley
Summer Session
Tabletop Simulator
Terminus
Terraria
The Labyrinth of Time
Theocracy
This Is Where I Want To Die
Tibia
Toribash
Total War
Total War
Tribal Trouble
Tribes II
Ultima Online (discontinued)
Uplink
Vendetta Online
World of Goo
X-Plane
X2
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Programming and development
C++ IDEs
Code Crusader
CodeWarrior
KDE Studio Gold
Kylix (discontinued)
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 IDE
IBAdmin
Java IDE
JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA
Sun ONE Studio
Memory leak tracing
Insure
Object Pascal IDE
Kylix
Perl/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 (discontinued)
DB engines
IBM Db2
Informix
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
E-mail / personal information manager / groupware servers
QCAD – by RibbonSoft, professional is built on the QCAD opensource package
RI-CAD
Simcenter STAR-CCM+ by Siemens.
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.
Remote Desktop
TeamViewer
AnyDesk
NoMachine
Splashtop
Emulators
Video game console emulators
Application
Publisher
Support status
Native binary[lower-alpha 1]
Source code
Pricing
BoycottAdvance[lower-alpha 2]
• Julien Frelat • Richard Bannister • Niels Wagenaar
Dropped[lower-alpha 3]
Yes
No
Freeware
ePSXe[lower-alpha 4]
ePSXe Team
Active
Yes
No
Freeware
Regen[lower-alpha 5]
AamirM
Active
Yes
No
Freeware
↑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
↑Game Boy Advance emulator
↑Last Linux-compatible version was 0.2.6; current version is 0.2.8
↑Sony PlayStation emulator
↑Sega Genesis / Mega Drive emulator
Platform virtual machines
Application
Publisher
Support status
Native binary
Source code
Pricing
Parallels Workstation
Parallels, Inc.
Terminated[lower-alpha 1]
N/A
No
No longer sold
QuickTransit
VMware Player
VMware vCenter Converter
VMware Workstation
Oracle VM VirtualBox Enterprise
Win4Lin
Discontinued
↑Product is no longer supported on any platform
Windows compatibility layer
Bordeaux
Cedega – Windows games compatibility layer; based on the free compatibility layer Wine (discontinued)
CrossOver – based on the free compatibility layer Wine.
Notes
A.^A Open-source drivers are available through HP Linux Imaging and Printing [12]
See also
Wine, a "compatibility layer" that allows many windows software to run on Linux (both proprietary and free)
↑"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.
↑"HP Developers Portal | HP Linux Imaging and Printing". https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing.
External links
This list is based on The Table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux, which is licensed under GNU FDL.