A vulnerability affects all versions of the OpenSSH client released in the past two decades, ever since the application was released in 1999. The security bug received a patch this week, but since the OpenSSH client is embedded in a ...
Sparkle, the international services arm of TIM Group, and Malta’s GO plc, have upgraded the Italy-Malta bilateral cable and introduced 100GB transmission technology. The upgrade is in response to the growing demand for hosting and online gaming servers in Malta, ...
Microsoft is attempting to capitalize on a recent spate of ransom attacks on unsecured MongoDB instances by encouraging developers to switch to working with its own Azure-based DocumentDB system. The free version of MongoDB ships with the default TCP port ...
OSLS Linus Torvalds believes the technology industry’s celebration of innovation is smug, self-congratulatory, and self-serving. The term of art he used was more blunt: “The innovation the industry talks about so much is bullshit,” he said. “Anybody can innovate. Don’t ...
Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation. No, you don’t need to rub yours eyes: we did just write that. The company says it is “joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member to better collaborate with the open source community.” ...
Microsoft just open-sourced PowerShell, making it available for both Linux and Mac. The command-line shell and scripting platform is just the latest open-source friendly software from Microsoft. Microsoft software on Linux All the “Microsoft loves Linux” talk can be a ...
A momentous milestone Aug. 25 marks the 25th anniversary of Linux, the free and open source operating system that’s used around the globe in smartphones, tablets, desktop PCs, servers, supercomputers, and more. Though its beginnings were humble, Linux has become the ...
When Microsoft introduced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) the common refrain was that you could use it to run Linux’s beloved Bash tool but full Linux desktops were out. Turns out that wasn’t exactly true. It didn’t take long for ...
It was a lousy day for Linux Mint, a popular Linux desktop distribution. Clement Lefebvre, head of Linux Mint, revealed that the Mint web site had been hacked. Lefebvre wrote on Sunday, “Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with ...
Libreoffice is immediately available for Linux, MacOS X, Windows and available in localised version (Maltese version in development) The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 5.1, a full featured open source office suite which compares head-to-head with every product in the ...
Google Chrome is to drop support for all 32-bit Linux distros from March, 2016. The change, which brings the platform in line with that of Mac OS X, will apply to all x86 Linux builds, regardless of distribution or version number. Users affected ...
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 ...