Malta Linux User Group

The announcement by the Ministry responsible for IT that it is actively seeking open-source solutions came as a surprise, albeit a very welcome one. It signals a shift from our government being bound to and dependent almost exclusively on one supplier, to a more open IT scene, and one which is based on some very healthy practices of openness and competition. It's no secret that the Government's policies in IT will propagate across the private sector, as well as MCAST and the University.

The i-Tech supplement in The Times contained various reactions from the open source community in Malta, including yours truly. My full comments can be seen in The Recipe for Success.

According to this article in Times, the Maltese government is actively interested in seeing how to use open source technologies including Linux across its offices and schools.

We now have wiki functionality on the site to help co-ordinate MLUG's Projects

Currently we are working on these projects:

• Custom Open Disc for IT Students
• Ubuntu LiveCD Replication
• Artwork and Posters

It's officially out: go grab openSUSE 11.0! We currently have all 32bit versions available. 64bit versions will be available by this evening.

Here is a brief list of improvements which made their way into openSUSE 11.0 ...

[UPDATE]: 64bit versions are now available too!

Hi Everyone,

The following is the agenda for the next meeting at Irrera. Anyone coming please print a copy since only a limited number of copies will be available.

Agenda for Committee Meeting #42 - 21st June 2008

IBM's newly unveiled Roadrunner supercomputer became the first to achieve 1.6 petaflops and is officially the world's fastest supercomputer. It runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux on almost 7000 AMD Opteron dual-core CPUs and 13,000 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs. It's no laptop - it covers 1,100 square meters.

Anyone want to run Quake 4 on an IMAX screen?

Irrera Restaurant, Ta' Xbiex

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