Commercial Applications

Many commercial vendors either have released or are developing applications for Linux, including:

Corel
Informix
Oracle
Netscape
Even Microsoft is porting the Windows Media Player to Liunx
And more!

Recently Intel announced that it was working on a Uniform Driver Interface so that all Unix variants on Intel platforms would use the same driver model. To quote direct from the horse's mouth: "Linux will be, said Quick, key to the adoption of the UDI initiative. A reference platform will be distibributed as freeware for Linux, and the Project UDI members will be counting on the Linux community to work on device drivers." In other words, Intel is basing a key business plan on Linux and the Linux development community.

Plenty of Linux games exist. Notably, over half the Quake servers in the world run under Linux. The Linux Games site has plenty of up-to-date information on games for Linux.