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Special Forums News, Links, Events and Announcements Microsoft buys github Post 303018346 by Corona688 on Monday 4th of June 2018 11:11:10 AM
Old 06-04-2018
And just a year ago everyone was telling me to move my stuff off my grody home server onto github, where it'll be safer.

I doubt it'll fare any better than skype, which MS bought for the sole purpose of destroying.
 

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SOFTWARE-CENTER(1)					      General Commands Manual						SOFTWARE-CENTER(1)

NAME
software-center - manage software SYNOPSIS
software-center [options] [ package-name | apt-url | deb-file ] DESCRIPTION
software-center a graphical interface for package management in Ubuntu. OPTIONS
Listed below are the command line options for software-center: --version show program's version number and exit -h, --help show this help message and exit --debug enable debug mode EXAMPLES
software-center Display the main screen of software-center. software-center gedit Display the details view of the gedit package. software-center banshee?section=universe Display the details view of the banshee package and offer to enable the universe component. software-center adobe-flashplugin?channel=maverick-partner Display the details view of the adobe-flashplugin package and offer to enable the maverick-partner channel. software-center cheese,gtg Display a list containing the cheese and gtg packages. software-center /home/pgg/skype.deb Display the details view of the local debian file '/home/pgg/skype.deb'. AUTHOR
software-center was written by Michael Vogt <mvo@canonical.com>, and this manual page by Andrew Higginson <rugby471@gmail.com>. Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. August 2010 2.1.8 SOFTWARE-CENTER(1)
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