Malta is one of those places where the small size allows one to see significant migrations to GNU/Linux desktop in their full glory. Notice the ascendance of GNU/Linux in the same week that school started that year. The peak usage ...
Google Earth has been around for years, yet it still makes my jaw drop. I mean, seriously, for centuries the only way to get a “bird’s-eye” view of our planet was to spin an actual globe. Now we can “fly” ...
First of we would like to thank our friends at Malta Linux user Group, Institute of Computer Education and Canonical Ltd Who organised one of many digital workshops around the maltese islands, this time it was headed at SmartCity Malta and was ...
Although Windows is not a free operating system, it has become a standard simply because it comes pre-installed with most new computers. In the past, this meant you also had to get matching commercial software, which often came at ...
Owners of the Raspberry Pi have received some good news with the announcement that all of the tiny ARM computer SoC drivers are now available as open source. Better still, all of the open source drivers are vendor provided (direct from the ...
With many business and government organizations that now use open source software such as Linux, it’s becoming increasingly clear that price is not the only advantage such software holds. If it were, companies that adopted it during the Great Recession ...
While Linux is running in our phones, tablets, netbooks, games consoles transmitting our friend requests, tweets, financial transactions and much more… Most of us don’t know how it’s actually built. That is why the short video will take you inside ...
Open what? Open source is a term referred to software whose source code is freely available. this doesn’t always mean free as in no price attached, but rather the software is freely available to the public. Open source software is governed by ...
We welcome you to the new OSSMalta website, though it ain’t much right now our gear monkeys are currently working on the server, Though the site is still under construction, we thank you for your visit and hope that you ...
In this morning’s Red Hat Summit sessions, Jean Staten Healy and Bob Sutor of IBM presented on the solutions that communities around the world are implementing using Linux as a catalyst for a smarter planet. The IT industry exists to ...