One of the Army‘s IT support commands still sends out physical disks on a quarterly basis to patch its software. But the hope is in the next year, it can build out a common repository to improve its ...

GitHub Inc., the popular open-source hosting and repository service owned by Microsoft Corp., is hoping to entice more developers to use its platform after making all of its core features freely ...

The version of ownCloud in Ubuntu’s Universe repositories is old and full of “multiple critical security vulnerabilities.” It’s no secret. The ownCloud project itself asked Ubuntu to remove it so ...

Homebrew bills itself as the package manager MacOS never had (conveniently ignoring MacPorts) but they leave the PPC crowd criminally under-served, to say nothing of the 68k gang. Enter [that-ben] ...

The Army is working to set up a common software repository. The U.S. Army is making a “heavy push” this fiscal year to finish its common software repository, a platform meant to provide patches for ...

If superfluous repositories are slowing down your system, it’s time to clean house. Here’s a simple way to remove unwanted or broken repos from your Linux distribution. After a year of so of working ...

GitHub, the software collaboration platform recently acquired by Microsoft, will store 6,000 software repositories in long-term storage. The open-source software will be stored at Piql's data center ...

What is a Linux repository? A Linux repository is a storage location from which your system retrieves and installs OS updates and applications. Each repository is a collection of software hosted on a ...

Open-source repositories are collapsing under the strain of 10 trillion downloads annually. All the major repositories are joining together to tackle this problem. While a lack of funds is a major ...