This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maven is an extremely popular Java build tool for a variety of reasons. As such, it is no wonder that developers and organizations are looking at setting up local Maven repositories to compliment the ...