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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?
http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/08/how-dell-and-
created by andrewmin on 2008-08-07 01:59:26
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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.
http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/07/kde-41-what-t
created by andrewmin on 2008-07-30 11:21:37
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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?
http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/07/five-reasons-
created by andrewmin on 2008-07-04 13:15:56
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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.
http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/06/land-of-the-f
created by andrewmin on 2008-06-27 16:10:37
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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?
http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/06/when-will-edu
created by andrewmin on 2008-06-23 16:00:31
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