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Find out why your application is working fine in Gingerbread and on the Ice Cream Sandwich virtual machine, but why you cannot run it on an ICS physical device.

A pair of BSD installers show two different ways of tackling the install process: one tried and tested, the other more modern. It’s FreeBSD against PC-BSD.

The Australian ISP landscape just gotten a bit smaller; pictures arrive of the $25 computer that could; and now we can have VNC in a browser, thanks to Node.js.

The latest release of Linux Mint, codenamed Lisa, was released today and comes with three different variations on the GNOME desktop.

BlackBerry DevCon was held in San Francisco last week and RIM used the event to announce its new BBX operating system. Although developers can make apps for it today, the big question remains on when will the devices using the new OS appear.

Web Directions South conference has kicked off for another year, where participants will discuss HTML 5, JavaScript, CSS and many other web technologies. Coupled with that will be memes, geekiness and raging against old Internet Explorer versions and mobile browsers.

KDE has annouced the first release of their Plasma Active project that provides an alternate interface for tablets. Based on Qt 4.7 and the Plasma framework seen in the KDE Platform, KDE says that it will run almost any software that is available for Linux platforms.

Microsoft says that IE8 will return to its original standards compliant mode as the default rendering mode — going back on previous statements to the contrary.

$500 million is an awful lot of money for a small stake in a Web site — so I thought I’d make a list of things that Microsoft could spend its money on instead.

If OLPC is successful then the next generation of programmers will come from an environment that is a vast change from the fringe desktop that we live in today.