The software-properties-gtk app in action. How to easily purge unwanted repositories in Linux Your email has been sent If superfluous repositories are slowing down your system, it's time to clean ...

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 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 ...

The Web front end for a Free Software Foundation software repository remains down after the server it was hosted on was attacked last week. The repository holds the pages for the organization’s ...

Traditionally, Ubuntu has used the Deb package format. The Deb package format comes from Debian, which Ubuntu is based on. This is similar to other Linux package formats, like the RPM packages that ...

The European Commission wants to improve its free and open-source software repository system using an enhanced metadata specification meant to help E.U. countries exchange more information about their ...

This kind of attack is very difficult to detect and might lead to full compromise of systems, leading to cyberespionage or financial crime. As recently exposed by Cisco Talos, software supply chain ...