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Microsoft has Media Player, Apple has iTunes, and Linux has Amarok.
Usually, Linux applications tend to mimic their Windows or Mac counterparts, but in this case, Amarok ended being such a remarkable audio library manager that users are now yearning to see it ported to Windows and OSX. The KDE desktop application offers some features as handy as editing a playlist afterhand, editing song tags, physically saving song tags, physically sorting the file library, and real-time monitoring of folders.

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Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have “Windows” as part of their name. Why is that? When entering a dispute on the subject with a Windows user, the most common argument he tries to feed me is that Windows is more widespread, and therefore, more vulnerable. Apart from amusing myths like “Linux is only for servers” or “does it have a word processor?”, the issue of Linux desktop security is still seriously misunderstood.

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Once a week, an article about the imminent broad endorsement of GNU/Linux by consumers is being published. Desktop Linux never seemed to pick up however, at least in a noticeable manner, because all the predictions have gotten it wrong: it didn’t become mainstream overnight, but it is doing so through a quiet revolution in mobile computing.

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