Linux is a staple brand name when it comes to computers. Over the years, it has been creating programs and operating systems that are very much in tune with the world’s need these days. Actually, there is a variety of Linux programs that I find better than its counterparts. However, this program called the Amarok music player, can not run on a Windows platform. I scoured the worldwide web to find out how I can possible use this program that is originally for Linux and have come up with a solution.
Because I really really want to use Amarok Music Player in my Windows based computer, I looked all over the web. Just when I was thinking that it is a dead end search, I found out about a marvelous application called andLinux. andLinux solved not just my problem with Amarok Music Player; it also allowed me to use any Linux based software and application in my Windows. andLinux is actually a software based on Ubuntu but lets you use Linux in some Windows based systems such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003. However, andLinux can only be used in the 32 bit versions.
andLinux has two versions that you can use. If you will be using this at home and have quite a large amount of disk space free, the KDE based version is for you. It is around 500 MB in size and is more than three times is smaller counterpart. If you need to carry around the program in your pen drive, you could opt for the smaller and lighter XCFE version which just takes up around 150 MB of your free disk space, sure to fit even old school 512 MB flash drives.
To test drive andLinux, I installed the XCFE version. Like I said, this is the smaller one and I do not really need to add up more files to my chock full hard disk. A lot of Linux based applications did run on it so I was very very impressed. Hurray! However, my Amarok Music Player, which is the main program that pushed me to find a good solution to my problem, didn’t work much to my dismay. I really do think, though that it will run in the KDE version because it is an application that is based on KDE but I got to free up some more disk space, I guess.
andLinux is perfect for people who would want the flexibility of using Linux based applications on the more common Windows platform. All you need to do is put up a shared folder in Windows so you can log in and view the files in Linux.
This is much like hitting two birds in one stone, running on Windows and using Linux applications!
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