1. Lunduke.com » Commercial Linux Software List - May 6th, 2009

   [...] Commercial Linux Software [...]

2. Malcolm Bastien - May 6th, 2009

   *Cough* Wiki *Cough*

3. Johan - May 6th, 2009

   Parallels Workstation and PowerDVD Linux. Both found at Canonical’s shop.

4. Bryan - May 6th, 2009

   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.

5. Johan - May 6th, 2009

   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

6. Johan - May 6th, 2009

   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

7. Noah R. - May 7th, 2009

   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.

8. Peterix - May 7th, 2009

   The Intel compiler suite and related tools. There’s a free version for non-commercial work too.

9. Matthias - May 7th, 2009

   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).

10. Jason Smith - May 7th, 2009

    Jungle Disk: http://www.jungledisk.com/

    (Which I found out about from your own review on LAS!)

11. Jason Smith - May 7th, 2009

    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

12. Troy Franks - May 7th, 2009

    Turbo Print http://www.turboprint.info/

13. Carlo Becchi - May 7th, 2009

    The Penumbra saga from Frictional Games

    http://penumbragame.com/

14. Benjamin M. Strozykowski - May 7th, 2009

    @Jason Smith
    Picasa isn’t a Linux app, it’s a Windows app bundled with WINE.

15. Anonymous Bloke - May 7th, 2009

    Matlab for linux, thank god for that

16. Bryan - May 7th, 2009

    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.

17. Harley - May 7th, 2009

    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.”

18. Rich - May 9th, 2009

    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)

19. børge - May 13th, 2009

    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/

20. Manuel - May 13th, 2009

    About Software Development, Intelli Idea is commercial, and there is a version for linux: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

21. iza.coska - May 19th, 2009

    CAD

    http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/

    http://www.varicad.com/en/home/

22. Duncan Bayne - May 23rd, 2009

    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

23. Nero - May 29th, 2009

    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.

24. Tim - June 16th, 2009

    Enterprise level Content filtering / web security / malware/phishing protection, etc Ubuntu 8 distribution - http://www.censornet.com

25. Ubuntu freak - August 29th, 2009

    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

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