The arrival of the €30~€35, wireless-enabled, Raspberry Pi 3, following a similarly 64-bit, $40 (€36) Odroid-C2 SBC a few weeks ago, represent a big speed boost for Linux hacker boards but not a sudden switch to 64-bit ARM computing. The default Linux distributions ...
The original Raspberry Pi went on sale four years ago, and more than 8,000,000 units have shipped since then. Raspberry Pi computers are used in schools and universities, in factories and other industrial applications, in home automation and hobby projects, ...
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 ...
A new video series has been launched to mark the 24th anniversary of the Linux Kernel. The Linux Foundation aim to use the six-part series, which is titled ‘A World Without Linux’, to raise awareness about Linux and how it plays ‘an integral ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...