The purpose of this page is to keep an, up to date, listing of the commercial software available for Linux desktops.
The focus here is on consumer (and pro-sumer) focused, desktop applications (not server and enterprise applications). Software normal people might use.
The list is by no means completel. Feel free to recommend any software you would like to see added to the list!
Utilities
RadicalCodex - $10.00 - Radical Breeze
eBook & Comic Book reader and organizer. Can sync to eBook reader devices.
DoThisNow - $10.00 - Radical Breeze
Personal desktop automation software. Scheduling and menu-launching configurable actions (change desktop background, screenshots, etc.).
VMWare Workstation - $189.00 - VMWare
Desktop virtualization (run Windows, etc. inside Linux).
Parallels Workstation - $49.99 - Parallels
Desktop virtualization (run Windows, etc. inside Linux).
CrossOver Linux - $39.95 to $69.95 - CodeWeavers
Install many popular Windows productivity applications, plugins and games in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license.
TurboPrint - $38.94 - ZEDOnet
Professional printing system for Linux.
Games
World of Goo - $20.00 - 2D Boy
A physics based puzzle / construction game.
Eschalon: Book 1 - $19.95 - Basilisk Games
A classic role-playing game experience that will take you across massive outdoor environments and deep into sprawling dungeons.
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - $14.95 - Hothead Games
Adventure-RPG from the minds that bring us Penny-Arcade.
Vendetta Online - $9.99 / Month - Guild Software
Massively multiplayer, space combat and trading with an emphasis on space flight simulation.
Doom 3 - Various - Activision
It's Doom 3. Doom. 3.
Cedega - $45 / Year - Transgaming
Run many Windows games on Linux.
Penumbra Series - $20 - Frictional Games
Survival / Horror 3D game.
Graphics / Design
Pixel - $50.00 - Pavel Kanzelsberger
Pixel is a RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing, photo retouching, graphics manipulating and animation program.
Radical Comic Designer - $10.00 - Radical Breeze
Comic strip and comic book designing software.
Audio / Video
Fluendo Codec Pack - EUR 28.00 - Fluendo
High quality, and properly licensed, audio and video codecs for playing back a wide variety of content.
PowerDVD Linux - $49.95 - Cyberlink
DVD video playback software.
Renoise - EUR 49.00 - Renoise
Renoise is a complete music production environment for Linux. Automatic plug-in delay compensation, support for VST and AU plugins, multi-core load balancing, MIDI i/o, audio recording, 4096 PPQ resolution and parameter automation.
Software Development
REALbasic - Various (Free - $299) - REALsoftware
Cross platform (Linux, Windows, Mac) integrated development environment. Linux Standard edition is free.
Runtime Revolution - Various - Runtime Revolution
Cross platform (Linux, Windows, Mac) development environment. Similar, in many ways, to Hypercard.
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May 6th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
*Cough* Wiki *Cough*
May 6th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Parallels Workstation and PowerDVD Linux. Both found at Canonical’s shop.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Johan: Good call! Those both should be on the list! I’ll add them in.
Malcolm: Wiki would probably be overkill. There just aren’t that many commercial desktop Linux applications out there (unfortunately). For now I’m just focusing on a single list that we can quickly scan through.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Star Office (http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/get.jsp)
Cedega (http://www.transgaming.com/)
Nero (http://www.nero.com/eng/linux3.html)
All Introversion games (http://www.introversion.co.uk/)
Quake 4 (ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake4/linux path to installer
May 6th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Oh and I also found this that someone was saying was a great scanning app for Linux: http://www.hamrick.com/
Four apps available at the Mandriva store: http://store.mandriva.com/?cPath=25
May 6th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
If you’re looking for a good commercial DAW, you might want to check out Renoise (http://renoise.com). It has a tracker interface, a ton of features, and is rather cheap compared to most other DAWs.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:34 am
The Intel compiler suite and related tools. There’s a free version for non-commercial work too.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:54 am
The audio section is missing Renoise and EnergyXT2.
Renoise is most propably THE best tracker out there (cross plattform) and a real reference for commercial linux software (it’s been ported because the community suggested this step – and it runs rock solid).
May 7th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Jungle Disk: http://www.jungledisk.com/
(Which I found out about from your own review on LAS!)
May 7th, 2009 at 7:30 am
What about software that is gratis but non-free? I think it might count too.
* VirtualBox (the version from their web site)
* Adobe AIR
* Various proprietary hardware drivers
* Picasa
May 7th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Turbo Print http://www.turboprint.info/
May 7th, 2009 at 8:08 am
The Penumbra saga from Frictional Games
http://penumbragame.com/
May 7th, 2009 at 10:34 am
@Jason Smith
Picasa isn’t a Linux app, it’s a Windows app bundled with WINE.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Matlab for linux, thank god for that
May 7th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I’ve updated the list with a bunch of them (and still need to add a few more).
Keep in mind:
Trying to focus on Consumer/Prosumer level software. Stuff that “average” folk might use.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
I sent a twit response to you, but just in case:
UT2004 (even though it’s dated, it still works well)
and you have a grammar error: “The list is by no means completely.”
May 7th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Well Sadly I am mostly familiar with games, so I’ll go with that.
Postal 2 (yeah a bit old, but still looks good enough for me). Also Postal 3 is due out soonish and Running with scissors promises it too will be available natively for Linux. May fail the “normal user test” Do normal people use cats as silencers on guns?
Quake 4
oh yeah,
Non-game
Money Dance personal finance software.
Livestation Streaming TV app(not sure if it meets the commercial definition you’re looking for or not. I assume they get most of their money from the carried broadcasters)
May 9th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Two commercial apps for working with photos in the RAW format:
http://www.lightcrafts.com (They don’t mention Linux on their website for some crazy reason, but they do support it!)
http://www.bibblelabs.com/
May 13th, 2009 at 11:31 am
About Software Development, Intelli Idea is commercial, and there is a version for linux: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
May 13th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
CAD
http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/
http://www.varicad.com/en/home/
May 19th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
OBZVault is a secure text editor that encrypts files using TripleDES. It costs AUD$15 and is supported on Ubuntu / Kubuntu, Mac OS X and Windows:
http://www.offbyzero.com/obzvault
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:45 am
I know you aren’t necessarily endorsing any of these but you listed Pixel. There has not been a new release of pixel in over a year and almost no communication from the author with the community. It’s status is largely unknown though supposedly he has investors who will be rolling it out commercially. I would recommend against people buying it until it is all sorted out. Technically it is still Beta software and very buggy.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Enterprise level Content filtering / web security / malware/phishing protection, etc Ubuntu 8 distribution – http://www.censornet.com
June 16th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Thanks for sharing. I’m using Ubuntu linux as my primary OS for home and business so professional tools are a must sometimes. I’ve also found this site with commercial linux software that looks nice http://lin-app.com
August 29th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I use both Picassa and Flickr for sharing photos over the internet but i use Flickr more often than Picassa.;`:
May 9th, 2010 at 9:56 am
Also check out UltraEdit.. a long time unbeatable editor/IDE for Windows now available in a native Linux (Gnome) version. http://ultraedit.com
May 9th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
What about commercial and closed source on Windows and FOSS on linux like the vector editor xara extreme?
May 11th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Check out notecase pro via http://www.virtual-sky.com/
This is a multi-platform outliner with ports to just about every OS you could need. A really good general app for everyone.
Application is neat/uncluttered, and allows export to html and stand alone exe.
I use this to create front end to my linux home directory. The hyperlinks help navigation and the text documents the file or directory (all searchable). Really handy if you are working on lots of projects etc.
Price is not too bad from $32 for major release cycle up to $122 for lifetime.
July 3rd, 2010 at 12:39 am