Linux

Linux is a popular, Open source Operating System first written by Linus Torvalds. It sees common use in servers, high-performance computing clusters, appliances, set-top boxes, and mobile devices. There's also a growing contingent of home desktop users spurred by distributions such as Ubuntu that emphasise out-of-the-box-experience and conversion.

The Game Maker program works under Wine (up to version 7), but the created games run with graphical errors. Game Maker games have been known to run flawlessly on Wine with a few minor adjustments. After the C++ rewrite, YYG have said they'll consider a port to making Game Maker run fully under Linux.

The Linux Kernel has been used in many devices including game home consoles, PDAs, handheld consoles, and mobile phones. Previousy, over 60% of Motorola phones were reported to be using the Linux Kernel. As of Q3 2010, the Linux-based Android operating system fielded for mobile devices by Google was only bested by Nokia's long-time stalwart, Symbian, in quarterly sales.