Expanding the use of free and open source software is high on the agenda of governments and organizations working to narrow the gap in access to technology. It is not only about addressing the issue of the digital divide or ...

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, ...

Almost two years ago, The Document Foundation announced it was going to bring LibreOffice to the cloud. With the release of LibreOffice 5.3, that day has finally come. LibreOffice’s new MUFFIN-based interface gives users a more flexible document creation experience. ...

Canonical and BQ have had the great pleasure of informing OSSMalta and its followers today about the upcoming availability of the world’s first Ubuntu converged device, the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet. The BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition tablet will ...

Episode 2 in The Linux Foundation’s ‘A World Without Linux’ video series is now available to watch. After last week’s look at how there’d be no internet without Linux, this latest episode posits a related tack: “a world without Linux would mean a world without ...

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 ...

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 ...