Linux software repositories have many benefits. But, like what happens in app stores, companies end support for them and your system stops getting updates. Eight years ago, Nokia released a ...

Immediately after the 2011 break-in, the Linux Foundation began "mandating a fairly strict authentication policy for those developers who commit directly to the git repositories housing the Linux ...

Yesterday, packages.microsoft.com—the repository from which Microsoft serves software installers for Linux distributions including CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and more—went down hard, and it ...

How to add Arch Linux AUR-like repositories to Ubuntu- and Fedora-based Linux distributions Your email has been sent Arch Linux has a community-driven repository that includes software not available ...

Also in today's open source roundup: Linux gaming might get a boost from Vulkan graphics and new hardware, and new iOS 10 features that were borrowed from Android Repositories have long been an ...

The revelation that the open-source Unreal IRC server download has been infected with malware for some eight months is pretty worrying. But the added discovery that this Trojan horse made its way into ...

Popular Linux distribution Gentoo has been “totally pwned” according to researchers at Sophos, and none of the current code can be trusted. The team immediately posted an update and noted that none of ...

A fter a rash of malware in the Arch User Repository (AUR), one AUR packaging system, Chaotic-AUR, is in response taking ...

Offensive Security warned Kali Linux users to manually install a new Kali repository signing key to avoid experiencing update failures. The announcement comes after OffSec lost the old repo signing ...