Multiple Operating Systems
This page features all software that is available to more than one of the Operating Systems I use. In order to keep the other lists free of repeated software, all software that can be executed in more than one OS is listed here
General Desktop Software
Games
Lincity-NG
City Simulation Game, like SimCity, Lincity-NG is an improved version of the original Lincity using a iso-3D graphics engine.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Nexuiz
Nexuiz is a free open-source first person shooter.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Robocode
Robocode is a Java programming game, where the goal is to develop a robot battle tank to battle against other tanks.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Warsow
Warsow is a first person shooter based on the Qfusion 3D engine, a modification of the Quake 2 GPL engine.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Battle for Wesnoth
Turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Wormux
Worms clone.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
General Usage Applications
7Zip
File archiver with high compression ratio.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
blueMarine
Application for the digital photo workflow, the blueMarine project will provide you an all-in-one tool for managing your photos,.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Filezilla
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox (abbreviated officially as Fx, but also unofficially as FF) is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Pidgin
Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Putty
PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
Available for: Linux and Windows
Scilab
Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
VideoLAN
VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License. This includes a Video Player.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Office/Productivity Applications
Dia
Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
OpenOffice
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Scribus
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Image/Graphics Manipulation and 3D Rendering
Blender
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
GIMP
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Inkscape
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Development Software
Database Engines
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. I Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
SQLlite
SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
HSQLDB
HSQLDB is the leading SQL relational database engine written in Java.
Available for: Every OS with a Java and .Net Virtual Machine.
DB4O
db4o is the open source object database that enables Java and .NET developers to store and retrieve any application object with only one line of code, eliminating the need to predefine or maintain a separate, rigid data model.
Available for: Every OS with a Java or .Net Virtual Machine.
IDEs
Lazarus
Delphi clone.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Netbeans
The NetBeans IDE is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. Provides support for various programming languages like Java, C/C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
OpenKomondo
The Open Komodo Project, based on Komodo IDE, is a new initiative by ActiveState to create an open source platform for building developer environments.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
SPE
Python IDE.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Software Deployment Tools
IzPack
Fully cross-platform installer. As such, it is an alternative to native solutions such as platform-specific installers and package managers.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Misc Development
Poedit
Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Xampp
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Platforms
Active Perl
ActivePerl is the industry-standard Perl distribution.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Mono
Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Python
"Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
wxWidgets
wxWidgets lets developers create applications for Win32, Mac OS X, GTK+, X11, Motif, WinCE, and more using one codebase. It can be used from languages such as C++, Python, Perl, and C#/.NET. Unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets applications look and feel native.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Software, Code and Project Management Tools
GanttProject
GanttProject is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Subversion
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
UML Tools
ArgoUML
ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform and is available in ten languages.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Web Development
Aptana Studio
JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger. Also supports PHP and other scripting languages.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows
Kompozer
Web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.
Available for: Linux, Mac OS x and Windows