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 ...

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] ...

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. — The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center took a major step forward in ensuring command, control, communications, computers, cyber, ...

For many years, GitHub’s has reigned as the ultimate open source forge, but its grip may be loosening.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...