Quoting Nathaniel Cunningham <nathaniel.cunningham at gmail.com>:
> I cannot view the maxima CVS repository either via link
> http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/maxima
>
> or via terminal access with command
> cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/maxima login
> ... with [RETURN] at password prompt
>
> Is something broken?
Yes, the sourceforge site was hacked a while ago
and the cvs service has been very slow to come back
online. You'll find some recent posts on the situation
midway down this page: http://sourceforge.net/blog/2011/02/
Leo
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