I.B.M.'s latest strategy is to run Linux applications on the big machines.

That began with customers running some Linux applications on unused mainframe capacity.

The company later abandoned this approach in favor of attempting to make Linux applications easy to download, install and use.

It also hopes to develop refined Linux applications like word processing.

Install a few other Linux applications.

This change will make it so that conventional native Linux applications that were not designed for Sugar will run better in the environment.

Since version 16, WinDev can be used for writing native Linux applications.

Canonical has launched a new project called Quickly that aims to simplify the process of developing and deploying Linux applications.

It has the potential to radically simplify the development process and provide new programmers with a more friendly introduction to creating Linux applications.

MoBlock is a Linux application for blocking connections to and from a specified range of hosts.