There was a small CIS course in first year which focused mostly on VIM. This year about 20 of us who chose Systems Programming had to make good use of Linux, not to mention testing the later projects on Solaris and BSD. Im not sure if Systems Programming is on next years course catalogue however, I didn't find it the other time, but credits towards the OS course increased, so perhaps they have been joined together.
With regards to lecturers, Dr Cachia and Mr Cordina with CSA and Mr Meli with CIS seem to be Linux users. Perhaps they might even be on this list? I'm not sure about any others. PSpice? That would be Prof Micallef right? I ran an 8086 emulator like that this year using Wine. Hadn't tried pspice on wine last year as I still had an XP box at home back then but I hear there is similar software available for Linux (probably still better to stick to the lecturer's recomended software though). openSuse, Debian and Fedora would be a good start for ISOs. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have a nice friendly "Get Linux" page on the site linking to the downloads. Though having too many distro's there might cause more confusion to new users if everything is not properly explained. Anyway just my thoughts...
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