Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

is an

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

kernel and usually comes bundled with

free and open-source software Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...

; however,

proprietary software Proprietary software is software that is deemed within the free and open-source software to be non-free because its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner exercises a legal monopoly afforded by modern copyright and int ...

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

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 Smoothwall (formerly styled as SmoothWall) is a Linux distribution designed to be used as an open source firewall. Smoothwall is configured via a web-based GUI and requires little or no knowledge of Linux to install or use. Smoothwall is also a ...

Corporate – a closed fork of SmoothWall, targeted at enterprise and corporate users

Visual traceroute

* VisualRoute

P2P file sharing

* Loophole (

WinMX WinMX (Windows Music Exchange) is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored in 2000 by Kevin Hearn (president of Frontcode Technologies) in Windsor, Ontario (Canada). According to one study, it was the number one source for online mus ...

protocol) – WinMX servers down since 09.2005 * MetaMachine

eDonkey2000 eDonkey2000 (nicknamed "ed2k") was a peer-to-peer file sharing application developed by US company MetaMachine (Jed McCaleb and Sam Yagan), using the Multisource File Transfer Protocol. This client supports both the eDonkey2000 network and the ...

– latest release from 25.07.2005 (discontinued) * μTorrent Server

"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers

* GHX

Multifunction sound modem programs

* PrimaFax

Fax software

Esker Fax Esker Fax from Esker is a Windows server-based fax server solution that allows fax processing transmission and reception from both desktop clients and host applications. Product description Desktop users can both send and receive faxes via the Esk ...

Fax2Send Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer o ...

* FAXCOM * Ictfax * MessagePlus/Open * U-Fax

Network maintenance

HP Openview HP OpenView is the former name for a Hewlett-Packard product family that consisted of network and systems management products. In 2007, HP OpenView was rebranded as HP BTO (''Business Technology Optimization'') Software when it became part of the ...

agents

Routing

* GateD

Distributed computing A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different computer network, networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by message passing, passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed com ...

Portable Batch System Portable Batch System (or simply PBS) is the name of computer software that performs job scheduling. Its primary task is to allocate computational tasks, i.e., batch jobs, among the available computing resources. It is often used in conjunction ...

PBS Gridworks

Instant messaging

Discord Discord is a VoIP and instant messaging social platform. Users have the ability to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called "servers".The developer documenta ...

Skype Skype () is a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also has instant messaging, file transfer, deb ...

* ICQ *

Viber Viber, or Rakuten Viber, is a cross-platform voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) software application owned by Japanese multinational company Rakuten, provided as freeware for the Google Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS a ...

* Trillian

P2P file synchronisation

BitTorrent Sync Resilio Sync (formerly BitTorrent Sync) by Resilio, Inc. is a proprietary peer-to-peer file synchronization tool available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Amazon Kindle Fire and BSD. It can sync files between devices on a ...

VoIP software

* Zoom client for Linux * alfaview

Desktop/system software

Work with files

Console archivers

* RAR *

B1 Free Archiver B1 Free Archiver is a proprietary freeware multi-platform file archiver and file manager. B1 Archiver is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. It has full support (compression, unpacking and encryption) for ZIP and its nati ...

Desktop search

Google Desktop Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pag ...

(discontinued) 1.0, released June 27, 2007

File splitters

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

PDF Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...
viewers

PDF authoring

* Adobe Acrobat Distiller (discontinued)

Cryptography

Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partition ...

Scanner utilities

VueScan VueScan is a computer program for image scanning, especially of photographs, including negatives. It supports optical character recognition (OCR) of text documents. The software can be downloaded and used free of charge, but adds a watermark on ...

* Xvscan last updated in 2000

Antivirus

Avast! Antivirus Avast Antivirus is a family of cross-platform internet security applications developed by Avast for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. The Avast Antivirus products include freeware and paid versions that provide computer security, brow ...

* AVG Anti-Virus * Bitdefender GravityZone *

Comodo Group Xcitium, formerly known as Comodo Security Solutions, Inc., is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Bloomfield, New Jersey in the United States. History The company was founded in 1998 in the United Kingdom by Melih Abdulhayoğlu. The compa ...

Anti-Virus for Linux *

Dr. Web Dr.Web is a software suite developed by Russian anti-malware company Doctor Web. First released in 1992, it became the first anti-virus service in Russia. The company also offers anti-spam solutions and is used by Yandex to scan e-mail attachment ...

F-Prot FRISK Software International (established in 1993) was an Icelandic software company that developed F-Prot antivirus and F-Prot AVES antivirus and anti-spam service. The company was founded in 1993. It was acquired by Cyren in 2012. History Th ...

(not to be confused with F-Secure) *

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Kaspersky Anti-Virus (russian: Антивирус Касперского (''Antivirus Kasperskogo''); formerly known as ''AntiViral Toolkit Pro''; often referred to as KAV) is a proprietary antivirus program developed by Kaspersky Lab. It is des ...

* ESET NOD32 * RAV Antivirus (discontinued) * Sophos Antivirus for Linux *

Trend Micro is an American-Japanese multinational cyber security software company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and Irving, Texas, United State.Other regional headquarters and R&D centers are located around East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and ...

ServerProtect for Linux * Vexira for Linux Fileserver * Vexira for Linux Samba Server

Bootloader A bootloader, also spelled as boot loader or called boot manager and bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer. When a computer is turned off, its softwareincluding operating systems, application code, an ...
/
Boot manager A bootloader, also spelled as boot loader or called boot manager and bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer. When a computer is turned off, its softwareincluding operating systems, application code, an ...

Hard disk partitioning

* Acronis PartitionExpert * Paragon Partition Manager

Backup software

PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view

* TreePad Lite

File hosting service clients

Dropbox Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S. that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and Client (computing), client software. Dropb ...

Mega Mega or MEGA may refer to: Science * mega-, a metric prefix denoting 106 * Mega (number), a certain very large integer in Steinhaus–Moser notation * "mega-" a prefix meaning "large" that is used in taxonomy * Gravity assist, for ''Moon-Eart ...

Drivers

Printer drivers

Brother Industries is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Its products include Printer (computing), printers, multifunction printers, desktop computers, sewing machin ...

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

(HP) *

Lexmark International Lexmark International, Inc. is a privately held American company that manufactures laser printers and imaging products. The company is headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky. Since 2016 it has been jointly owned by a consortium of three multination ...

* TurboPrint

Multimedia

Audio/video

Digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for Sound recording and reproduction, recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software pro ...
s

Bitwig Studio Bitwig Studio is a proprietary digital audio workstation developed by Bitwig GmbH. Bitwig is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Bitwig is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arra ...

* Mixbus * ocenaudio *

REAPER A reaper is a agricultural machinery, farm implement or person that wikt:reap#Verb, reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass. The first documented reaping machines were ...

(experimentally) *

Renoise Renoise is a digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MID ...

* Tracktion

MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...
encoding

L3enc Fraunhofer l3enc was the first public software able to encode pulse-code modulation (PCM) .wav files to the MP3 format. The first public version was released on July 13, 1994. This commandline tool was shareware and limited to 112 kbit/s. It w ...

(discontinued)

Score writers

Guitar Pro Guitar Pro is a multitrack editor of guitar and bass tablature and musical scores, possessing a built-in MIDI-editor, a plotter of chords, a player, a metronome and other tools for musicians. It has versions for Windows and Mac OS X (Intel proc ...

Multimedia players

* Fluendo DVD Player *

LinDVD LinDVD from Corel was a commercial proprietary software for Linux for the playback of DVDs and other multimedia files. The latest version supported ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) and mobile internet devices (MIDs), as well as a streaming media and a wid ...

* Moovida Pro * Musictube * PowerDVD for Linux (discontinued) *

JRiver Media Center JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows, macOS, or Linux operating systems. JRiver Media Center is a "jukebox"-style media player, like iTu ...

RealPlayer RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks. The media player is compatible with numerous container file formats of the multimedia realm, including MP ...

(discontinued)

Music

* Dataplore * Dataplore CMS * energyXT *

* Loomer Aspect * Loomer Manifold * Loomer Resound * Loomer Sequent * Loomer Shift v2 * Loomer String * MuSing * Netease Cloud Music *

Pianoteq ''Pianoteq'' is a software synthesizer that features real-time MIDI-control of digital physically modeled pianos and related instruments, including electric piano, harp, harpsichord, fortepiano, and various metallophones. It is usable as a stan ...

* RecordPad *

Spotify Spotify (; ) is a proprietary Swedish audio streaming and media services provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is one of the largest music streaming service providers, with over 456 million monthly active us ...

* Transcribe!

Graphics

Graphics viewers/editors

Professional graphics editors and photography

AfterShot Pro Corel AfterShot Pro is a commercial and proprietary raw image processing software by Corel Cascade Parent Limited, doing business as Alludo (pronounced like "all you do"), is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, special ...

Corel Cascade Parent Limited, doing business as Alludo (pronounced like "all you do"), is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, specializing in graphics processing. Formerly called the Corel Corporation ( ; from the abbreviation ...

Photo-Paint 9 (discontinued) * PaintSupreme * Pixel32 * Pixeluvo

Digital imaging

* Bibble * FX Photo Effects

2D bitmap animation and paint

Harmony In music, harmony is the process by which individual sounds are joined together or composed into whole units or compositions. Often, the term harmony refers to simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches ( tones, notes), or chords. However ...

TVPaint TVPaint Animation (also known as TVPaint, TVP, Bauhaus Mirage or NewTek Aura) is a 2D paint and digital animation software package developed by TVPaint Developpement SARL based in Lorraine, France. Originally released for Amiga in 1991, version ...

Vector graphics editors

Corel Draw CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the bitmap-image editor Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). T ...

9 (discontinued) *

Edraw Max Edraw Max is a 2D business technical diagramming software which helps create flowcharts, organizational charts, mind map, network diagrams, floor plans, workflow diagrams, business charts, and engineering diagrams. The current version, Edraw ...

9.4 *

Xara Xtreme Xara Designer Pro+ is an image editing program incorporating photo editing and vector illustration tools created by British software company Xara. Xara Xtreme LX was an early open source version for Linux. The Windows version was previously so ...

(discontinued)

Flash players

Adobe Adobe ( ; ) is a building material made from earth and organic materials. is Spanish for ''mudbrick''. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of e ...

Flash Player Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) is computer software for viewing multimedia contents, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the ...

– freeware

3D graphics

AC3D AC3D is a 3D design program which has been available since 1994. The software is used by designers for modeling 3D graphics for games and simulations - most notably it is used by the scenery creators at Laminar Research on the X-Plane (simulator ...

* Chrono::R3D *

Houdini Harry Houdini (, born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-American escape artist, magic man, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts. His pseudonym is a reference to his spiritual master, French magician ...

* MASSIVE *

Maya Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a populat ...

Softimage Autodesk Softimage, or simply Softimage () was a 3D computer graphics application, for producing 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling, and computer animation. Now owned by Autodesk and formerly titled Softimage, XSI, the software has been predomi ...

* MODO * Substance Designer by

* Substance Painter by

* Mari by

The Foundry Visionmongers Foundry (registered as The Foundry Visionmongers Limited; also known under its former brand name The Foundry) is a British visual effects software development company with headquarters in London, and offices in Manchester and in Austin, Texas. ...

* VariCAD

Video, etc.

Simple/professional video production environments

* Autodesk/Discreet Flint/Flame/Inferno * Autodesk/Discreet Smoke * IFX Piranha * ifxAnt *

Lightworks Lightworks is a non-linear editing system (NLE) for editing and mastering digital video. It was an early developer of computer-based non-linear editing systems, and has been in development since 1989. Lightworks won a 2017 EMMY Award for being ...

DaVinci Resolve DaVinci Resolve (originally known as da Vinci Resolve) is a color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production video editing application for macOS, Windows, and Linux, originally developed by da Vinci Systems, and now deve ...

* iMira Editing (discontinued) * MainActor (discontinued)

Creation of 2D and 3D effects

Fusion Fusion, or synthesis, is the process of combining two or more distinct entities into a new whole. Fusion may also refer to: Science and technology Physics *Nuclear fusion, multiple atomic nuclei combining to form one or more different atomic nucl ...

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

Miscellaneous

Google Earth Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D computer graphics, 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposition, superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and geog ...

TrueCrypt TrueCrypt is a discontinued source-available freeware utility used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file, or encrypt a partition or the whole storage device (pre-boot authentication). On 28 May ...

– the

source code In computing, source code, or simply code, is any collection of code, with or without comments, written using a human-readable programming language, usually as plain text. The source code of a program is specially designed to facilitate the wo ...

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 A fedora () is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown.Kilgour, Ruth Edwards (1958). ''A Pageant of Hats Ancient and Modern''. R. M. McBride Company. It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and "pinched" near the front on both sides ...

Office/business

Office suites

* ApplixWare Office (see Applixware Words) *

EIOffice EIOffice, also known as Evermore Integrated Office, is a proprietary Office suite by Evermore Software. In 2010, Evermore changed their name to Yozosoft. Supported operating systems include Microsoft Windows and Linux. It is marketed internationa ...

* HancomOffice *

SoftMaker Office SoftMaker Office is an office suite developed since 1987 by the German company SoftMaker Software GmbH based in Nuremberg. A freeware version is released as well, under the name of SoftMaker FreeOffice. Components SoftMaker Office include ...

ThinkFree Office Hancom Office, formerly ThinkFree Office, is a proprietary office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet software, presentation software, and a PDF editor as well as their online versions accessible via an internet browser. ThinkFree ...

WPS Office WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and HarmonyOS developed by Zhuhai-based Chinese software developer Kin ...

(previously known as

Kingsoft Office WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and HarmonyOS developed by Zhuhai-based Chinese software developer King ...

) * Yozo Office

Word processors

TextMaker TextMaker is a word processor developed by the German company SoftMaker and available as part of the SoftMaker office suite. TextMaker is available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android. Some reduced versions of TextMaker are released as freewa ...

* UltraCompare *

UltraEdit UltraEdit is a commercial text editor for Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X created in 1994 by the founder of IDM Computer Solutions Inc., Ian D. Mead, and owned by Idera, Inc. since August 2021. The editor contains tools for programmers, includi ...

* WPS Writer

Spreadsheets

DataScene DataScene is a scientific graphing, animation, data analysis, and real-time data monitoring software package. It was developed with the Common Language Infrastructure technology and the GDI+ graphics library. With the two Common Language Runt ...

* WPS Spreadsheet

Presentations

PageStream PageStream (originally Publishing Partner) is a desktop publishing software package by Grasshopper LLC (United States), currently available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. The software was originally relea ...

* WPS Presentation

Local databases

InterBase InterBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other RDBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-g ...

7 * Rekall *

StarOffice StarOffice is a discontinued proprietary software, proprietary office suite, intended to compete with the marketing-leading Microsoft Office. It served as the basis for open-source suites OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. StarOffice supported the ...

Adabas D Adabas D is a relational database management system owned by Software AG since 1994, when Software AG acquired SQL-Datenbanksysteme GmbH from Siemens Nixdorf AG. SAP AG's MaxDB is based on ADABAS D version 6.1.15.57, licensed from Software AG ...

(discontinued)

Desktop publishing

* VivaDesigner

E-commerce and web business

* IBM

WebSphere IBM WebSphere refers to a brand of proprietary computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create and integrate applications wi ...

Application Server *

Oracle Application Server The Oracle Application Server 10g (the "g" stands for ''grid'') (short Oracle AS), consists of an integrated, standards-based software platform. It forms part of Oracle Corporation's Fusion Middleware technology stack. The heart of Oracle Applic ...

(discontinued) *

WebLogic Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server currently developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle acquired WebLogic Server when it purchased BEA Systems in 2008. Application Server versions * WebLogic Server 14c (14.1.1) - March 30, 2020 ...

Personal finance managers

Moneydance Moneydance is a personal finance software application developed by The Infinite Kind, formerly developed by Reilly Technologies, USA. Written in Java, it can be run on many different computers and operating systems. Under the hood, Moneydance im ...

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 Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. Teams primarily competes with the similar service Slack, offering workspace chat and videoconferencin ...

* TeamViewer * Slack

Project management

* Cando Projects Server

Mind mapping/diagramming software

* Xmind (Pro Edition) *

yEd yEd is a general-purpose diagramming program with a multi-document interface. It is a cross-platform application written in Java (programming language), Java that runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and other platforms that support the Java Virtual ...

WireframeSketcher WireframeSketcher is a wireframing tool developed by Peter Severin and first released in November 2008. WireframeSketcher software is a member of Eclipse Foundation. It is used for creating wireframes, mockups and prototypes for desktop, web and ...

* EdrawMax

Communications software

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

Games

Game distribution platforms

* '' Steam''

Action-adventure

Adventure

Business simulation

Card

City simulation

First-person shooter

Graphic adventure

MMORPG

Platformer

Puzzle

Racing

Real-time tactics

Role-playing game (RPG)

Shoot 'em up

Stealth

Strategy

Survival horror

Sports simulator

Third-person shooter

Visual novel

* ''

Dwarf Fortress ''Dwarf Fortress'' (officially called ''Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress'') is a construction and management simulation and roguelike indie video game created by Bay 12 Games. Available as freeware and in development sin ...

'' * ''

Enter the Gungeon ''Enter the Gungeon'' is a 2016 bullet hell roguelike game developed by Dodge Roll and published by Devolver Digital. Set in the firearms-themed Gungeon, gameplay follows four Player character, player characters called Gungeoneers as they tra ...

'' * ''

Factorio ''Factorio'' is a construction and management simulation game developed by the Czech studio Wube Software. The game was announced via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in 2013 and released for Windows, macOS, and Linux on 14 August 2020 follo ...

'' * '' FizzBall'' (discontinued) * ''

Garry's Mod ''Garry's Mod'' is a 2006 sandbox game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. The base game mode of ''Garry's Mod'' has no set objectives and provides the player with a world in which to freely manipulate objects. Other game ...

'' * ''

Heroes of Newerth ''Heroes of Newerth'' (''HoN'') was a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game originally developed by S2 Games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The game idea was derived from the ''Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne'' custom ma ...

'' * '' MindRover'' * ''

Minecraft ''Minecraft'' is a sandbox game developed by Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before being ...

'' * ''

Prey Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill the ...

'' * '' Quake'' (all versions) * ''

Railroad Tycoon II ''Railroad Tycoon II'' is a business simulation video game in the ''Railroad Tycoon'' series developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers. It was released for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation and Dreamcast Game ...

'' * '' Raptor: Call of the Shadows'' (discontinued) * ''

Regnum Online ''Champions of Regnum'' (previously known as ''Regnum Online'') is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG) developed and published by Nimble Giant Entertainment, a game development studio located in Argentina. The game ...

'' * ''

Return to Castle Wolfenstein ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein'' is a first-person shooter video game published by Activision, released on November 19, 2001, for Microsoft Windows and subsequently for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Linux and Macintosh. The game serves as a reboot of the ...

'' * ''

RimWorld ''RimWorld'' is a construction and management simulation video game developed and published by Montreal-based developer Ludeon Studios. Originally called ''Eclipse Colony'', it was initially released as a Kickstarter crowdfunding project in earl ...

'' * ''

Rise of the Triad ''Rise of the Triad: Dark War'' is a first-person shooter video game, developed and published by Apogee Software (now 3D Realms) in 1995. The player can choose one of five different characters to play as, each bearing unique attributes such as ...

'' * '' Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood'' * ''

Rune Runes are the letter (alphabet), letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets native to the Germanic peoples. Runes were used to write various Germanic languages (with some exceptions) before they adopted the Latin alphabet, a ...

'' * '' Savage 2'' * '' Savage: The Battle for Newerth'' * ''

Serious Sam ''Serious Sam'' is a video game series created and primarily developed by Croteam. It consists predominantly of first-person shooters. The series follows the advances of mercenary Sam "Serious" Stone against Mental, an extraterrestrial overl ...

'' (all versions unfinished ports; beta) * '' Shadowgrounds Survivor'' * ''

Shadowgrounds ''Shadowgrounds'' is a top-down shooter for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, developed by Frozenbyte. The game takes place on a space colony on Ganymede which is being attacked by aliens. It was released for Windows on November 11, 2005, ...

'' * '' Shogo: Mobile Armor Division'' * ''

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ''Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri'' is a 4X video game, considered a spiritual sequel to the ''Civilization'' series. Set in a science fiction depiction of the 22nd century, the game begins as seven competing ideological factions land on the planet ...

'' * '' SimCity 3000'' * ''

SiN In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law. Each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin. While sins are generally considered actions, any thought, word, or act considered immoral, selfish, s ...

'' * ''Sleepless Night'' * '' Soldier of Fortune'' * ''

Space Combat Space warfare is hypothetical combat in which one or more belligerents are situated in outer space. The scope of space warfare therefore includes ''ground-to-space warfare'', such as attacking satellites from the Earth; ''space-to-space warfare ...

'' * '' Spheres of Chaos'' * ''

Stardew Valley ''Stardew Valley'' is a simulation role-playing video game developed by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone. Players take the role of a character who takes over their deceased grandfather's dilapidated farm in a place known as Stardew Valley. The game wa ...

'' * '' Summer Session'' * ''

Tabletop Simulator ''Tabletop Simulator'' is an independent video game that allows players to play and create tabletop games in a multiplayer physics sandbox. Developed by Berserk Games as their first title after a successful crowdfunding campaign in February 2014, ...

'' * ''

Terminus Terminus may refer to: * Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end destination * Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination Geography *Terminus, the unofficial original name of Atlanta, Georgia, United ...

'' * ''

Terraria ''Terraria'' is an action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows on May 16, 2011, and has since been ported to several other platforms. The game features exploration, crafting, building, painting, ...

'' * '' The Labyrinth of Time'' * ''

Theocracy Theocracy is a form of government in which one or more deity, deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the government's daily affairs. Etymology The word theocracy origina ...

'' * ''This Is Where I Want To Die'' * ''

Tibia The tibia (; ), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects ...

'' * '' Toribash'' * '' Total War: Three Kingdoms'' * '' Total War: Warhammer II'' * '' Tribal Trouble'' * '' Tribes II'' * ''

Ultima Online ''Ultima Online'' (''UO'') is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released on September 24, 1997 by Origin Systems. Set in the '' Ultima'' universe, it is known for its extensive player versus player combat system. ...

'' (discontinued) * ''Uplink (computer game), Uplink'' * ''Vendetta Online'' * ''World of Goo'' * ''X-Plane (simulator), X-Plane'' * ''X2: The Threat'' * ''Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates''

Programming and development

C++ Integrated development environment, IDEs

* Code Crusader * CodeWarrior * KDE Studio Gold * Kylix (software), 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 InterBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other RDBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-g ...
/Firebird (database server), Firebird IDE

* IBAdmin

Java (programming language), Java IDE

* IntelliJ IDEA, JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA * Sun Microsystems, Sun ONE Studio

Memory leak tracing

* Insure

Object Pascal IDE

* Kylix (software), Kylix

Perl/Python (programming language), Python/Tcl IDE

* ActiveState Komodo * PyCharm, JetBrains PyCharm * Sublime Text

Prolog

* SICStus Prolog

WYSIWYG HTML editors

* IBM

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 Technology, Zeus Zeus Web Server, Web Server (discontinued)

DB engines

* IBM Db2 * Informix * Microsoft SQL Server * Oracle database, Oracle * Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

E-mail / personal information manager / groupware servers

* Bynari * CommuniGate Pro * Lotus Domino * NetMail * Novell GroupWise * Open-Xchange * Scalix (based on HP OpenMail) * SCOoffice Mail Server * Teamware Office * Zarafa * Hiri (email client), Hiri * InScribe

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

* Teamcenter, 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, SSH File Transfer Protocol, SFTP, HTTP, and HTTPS file transfer methods

Streaming media servers

* Emby * Plex (software), Plex

Miscellaneous applications

Mathematics

* Magma computer algebra system, Magma * Maple (software), Maple * Mathematica * MATLAB * Xoctave Scientific Development Environment: Octave GUI

Statistical packages

* R/Rstudio * PSPP * Stata * TSP (econometrics software), TSP

3D modelling

* CityEngine * PhotoScan by Agisoft * ProEngineer, Pro/ENGINEER Linux (discontinued) * Parasolid * Realsoft 3D * NX (software), Siemens NX

Computer-aided design, CAD/Computer-aided manufacturing, CAM/Computer-aided engineering, CAE

* ADINA, Adina – by ADINA R&D * ARCAD 3D * ARES Commander * Bricscad, BricsCAD – IntelliCAD-based commercial CAD solution * CAM Expert Professional * CATIA – by Dassault Systèmes * CYCAS by Verlag Frese * DraftSight – by Dassault Systèmes * EAGLE (program), EAGLE * MEDUSA * NX (software), Siemens NX * 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

* 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

Platform virtual machines

Windows compatibility layer

* Bordeaux (software), Bordeaux * Cedega (software), Cedega – Windows games compatibility layer; based on the Free software, free compatibility layer Wine (software), Wine (discontinued) * CrossOver – based on the Free software, free compatibility layer Wine.

Notes

:A. Open-source drivers are available through HP Linux Imaging and Printing

References

External links

:* ''This list is based on
The Table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux
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Networking

Web browsers

FTP clients

Firewall (packet filtering)

Visual traceroute

P2P file sharing

"Hotline" P2P protocol clients/servers

Multifunction sound modem programs

Fax software

Network maintenance

Routing

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Instant messaging

P2P file synchronisation

VoIP software

Desktop/system software

Work with files

Console archivers

Desktop search

File splitters

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PDF authoring

Cryptography

Scanner utilities

Antivirus

Hard disk partitioning

Backup software

PIM / DB / hierarchical notebook with tree view

File hosting service clients

Drivers

Printer drivers

Multimedia

Audio/video

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Score writers

Multimedia players

Music

Graphics

Graphics viewers/editors

Professional graphics editors and photography

Digital imaging

2D bitmap animation and paint

Vector graphics editors

Flash players

3D graphics

Video, etc.

Simple/professional video production environments

Creation of 2D and 3D effects

Miscellaneous

Office/business

Office suites

Word processors

Spreadsheets

Presentations

Local databases

Desktop publishing

E-commerce and web business

Personal finance managers

Financial accounting

Enterprise automation (Russian)

Collaboration software

Project management

Mind mapping/diagramming software

Communications software

Games

Game distribution platforms

Action-adventure

Adventure

Business simulation

Card

City simulation

First-person shooter

Graphic adventure

MMORPG

Platformer

Puzzle

Racing

Real-time tactics

Role-playing game (RPG)

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