Malta Linux User Group

The Times i-Tech supplement contains an interesting article about educational open-source software. Read it here.

I am writing this to make all you Maltese Linux users aware of what I think is a great distro of Linux. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and ll Ubuntu packages are 100% compatible with it. The site is http://www.linuxmint.com/ . The latest version is Linux Mint 9 Isadora based on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.

Hi,I'd like to know whether any of you know of a computer shop here in Malta that sells Linux pre-installed notebooks.  As far as I know the computer shops that I know of don't offer that option, or at least claim they come from their suppliers as is and can't make modifications. David

An article by Daniel Bartolo has appeared in this week's i-Tech supplement. Read it here.

Hello all,          I am new to this webpage but not new to linux. I just moved to KDE from GNOME using the 9.04 version currently. I wish to get to know a little bit more about this group because it looks exciting to share the same interest. RegardsGary.

I am a seasoned system designer which build HTPC systems for clients in the Audio Visual Industry lately I am intrested in moving from Windows and Apple OS to Linux moreover to MythTV - this os is capable to support inputs from various TV CARDS - ie cable input, sattelite input and now also DVB T or terrestial malta's provider is GO ex Multiplus what I am intrested in is to emulate their decoder by providing the digital copy of the card - something like linux set top boxes use CCCam - I am asking help becuase basically I am new to linux - if anyone wants to join this project let me know if

it's been like a month since i have purchased my new acer aspire one A100, which is linux linpus based... i seem to keep having problems with it. is there any one who knows how to work linux linpus and take some time to meet up or msn regarding it please?billyjmcbee@gmail.com (email)

Fellow Penguins,

The next MLUG meeting shall take place as follows

Date: Saturday 18th July
Time: 09:30
Place: annex9 Lab, Birkirkara

Minutes of the previous meeting are attached, as is agenda for the next meeting.

Hope to see you there!

If you've installed OpenOffice 3.1, you can now have the Maltese spell checker installed on it. Here are the step-by-step instructions (assuming OOo 3.1 is already installed).

OOo uses hunspell as its spell-checker, so the first step is to install the tools to create new word lists: