At the bottom of this post, you'll find the .deb file for Scrivener for Linux 1.9beta. Until recently, Scrivener has been Mac-only (it was written in Cocoa), and it is the one writing application that I could not live without after my switch to Linux. I even resorted to a virtual hackintosh so I could run it.

Now, finally, there are betas for both Windows and Linux. (And the Windows beta runs quite well in Wine.) If it's priced the same as the Mac version, the final Windows/Linux versions will probably be around forty bucks, and well worth the price.

IMPORTANT: You can't install this with the software center. Rather, open a terminal, navigate to your download directory, and type in:

dpkg -i scrivener-beta_1.9beta-10_all.deb

If you still have trouble with this, check out http://www.literatureandlatte.com/wiki/doku.php?id=running_scrivener_in_... or check the forums there.

This beta will expire on March 21st, 2011, at which time beta 1.10 should be available. At some point I imagine there'll be a PPA for it.
A .tgz of the Linux version can be found at http://www.literatureandlatte.com, as can the Mac version and the Windows beta.