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What Android Needs to Beat the iPhone
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/09/what-android-needs-to-b...
When Google filed their Android patent in September 2007, the hype was almost as high as the hype surrounding Apple’s iPhone. Native apps, any phone, any carrier, and open source sounded pretty dang good. But then, Google started losing its jump. Apple picked up speed, added 3rd party native apps, and brought down the price. Meanwhile, Google twiddled their thumbs and announced a few developer contests.
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Why the Computer Won’t Be Going Into the Cloud Anytime Soon
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/08/why-the-computer-won%e2...
Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about cloud computing. The CherryPal Linux-based machine got on both Slashdot and Digg when it announced it was shipping a machine with “Firefox as the OS”. The BBC ran an article that claimed that Microsoft was ending the Windows era with a new operating system, Midori, which would store almost all your information in the cloud, getting rid of you being tied to one machine. And the Red Hat CEO thinks that cloud computing is the way of the future. Unfortunately, they’re all wrong. For now, the computer is staying right where it is.
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Submitted by andrewmin
42 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 9 hours agoTags: computers, computing, cloud, internet, web, cloud computing
How Dell and System76's Ubuntu Machines Stack Up to Their Mac Counterparts
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/08/how-dell-and-system76s-...
Open source operating systems obviously give more bang for the buck than any other operating system in the world. After all, they’re free, and you can’t get lower than free (unless you’re Kaspersky). However, what about pre-installed Ubuntu machines? Do they beat their Windows and OS X competitors in the bang for the buck category? Dell got rid of the so-called Windows tax, so it’s obvious that pre-installed Ubuntu on Dells give more power than pre-installed Windows on Dells. But what about Macs?
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KDE 4.1: What to expect
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/07/kde-41-what-to-expect/
Recently, Gnome’s been gaining a lot of ground on its KDE counterpart in the desktop environment wars. The KDE developers were hoping to change this with KDE 4, the new radical release of KDE, but it was not to be. KDE 4.0 was buggy and unstable, leaving everyone except the hard-core KDE lovers. Mainly, this was because it just didn’t work most of the time. However, the developers were not without hope. They promised that KDE 4.1 would be more stable and fix all the holes and problems with KDE 4.0. That time is coming soon: in just four days, K Desktop Environment 4.1 will be released to the Linux masses.
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Five Reasons Ubuntu is the #1 Linux Distro
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/07/five-reasons-ubuntu-is-...
Ubuntu is, according to DistroWatch, the #1 Linux distribution. That’s a huge feat in itself. However, once you realize that Ubuntu is only three and a half years old, the feat is much bigger. How did the Linux rookie beat out the nine-year-old Mandrake, the fourteen-year-old SUSE, or the fifteen-year-old Debian?
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Arora, an extremely fast WebKit web browse
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/06/land-of-the-freeware-ar...
I have this huge love/hate relationship with Firefox. It’s way too bloated and so much slower compared to the other browsers I’ve tried. But I can’t live without it, simply because I never found a decent alternative. I can’t use Internet Explorer or Safari simply because I run Linux. Besides, neither seemed extremely stellar to me. Konqueror won’t render everything. Sure, that’s the programmer’s fault and Konqueror is W3C compliant and all that, but that doesn’t help me read that site. Ditto for Opera. I also don’t need an email, BitTorrent, and feed client. All I need is a web browser. And Epiphany and Dillo are great, but I don’t like running Gnome apps in my KDE install. That’s why I was quite excited when I found Arora, a WebKit-powered Qt web browser.
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When Will Education Become Outdated?
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/06/when-will-education-bec...
The teaching process has changed quite a lot over the past centuries. In the ancient Roman society, children were simply taught by their parents and the boys were brought up learning the trade of their father. In colonial America, children were generally either taught at home or in small, one room schoolhouses. Public education as we know it today has only been around for the last century or so. Even today, education is undergoing rapid changes. Homeschooling is on the rise, as are alternative education options like online learning and small charter schools. What will it look like in another 100 years?
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Newsvine - John McCain's VP List: The pros and cons from a conservative's point of view
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Now that the race is officially on (OK, Keyes hasn't dropped out yet, but he can't win anyway), John McCain has the sticky business of picking a vice president. This is extremely important, especially this year because of his age. Even if he's healthy, we want a strong VP just in case. Additionally, the VP usually ends up becoming the presidential nominee for his party.
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Submitted by andrewmin
44 months, 2 weeks, 8 hours agoTags: politics, hillary clinton, republican, gop, john mccain
Why is proprietary software so bad?
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/06/linux-land-why-is-propr...
One of the biggest arguments in the Linux world rages around proprietary software (software restricted by license and/or price). The majority of the Linux users out there are for pure FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software). That is, they only want FLOSS software on their machines. This movement really took off mostly because many of the original Linux and UNIX pioneers were firm FLOSS disciples. However, many users, especially the less philosophical and the more pragmatic, have gotten into the habit of simply wanting what works. Which is the right answer?
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Submitted by andrewmin
44 months, 2 weeks, 14 hours agoTags: floss, foss, free software, open source, OSS, linux, unix
Why Are We So Loyal?
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http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/06/why-are-we-so-loyal/
Mac fan(atic)s get slammed all the time for their nigh-unwavering devotion to Apple and Steve Jobs. Many of them even embrace (more or less jokingly) the accusations they receive of treating Steve Jobs as a deity. I could go into all of the reasons for this, but I am afraid that I would quickly start rationalizing and becoming defensive, as I have been accused of being a “Mac Fanboy” myself.
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