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In a sources.list I see these comments:

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.

Anyone have an idea what "N.B." refers to?

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene, N.B. in short means "pay attention" or "take notice". Therefore, the comment is telling you you should take note the software in that repository is not supported by Ubuntu.

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"N.B." (Nota Bene) is a Latin form, in English you can read it as "Note well".

In this case, the sources.list file contains just a heads up for the users about the repository(ies). And the given note is self-explanatory i think as the Universe repository contains mostly the community contributions.

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  • Thanks, I've been using Debian and Ubuntu for a long time, just wasn't familiar enough with the Latin notation to realize what N.B. was referring to. Jun 22, 2016 at 5:33
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    @Jonwithnoh Yeah, just a heads up like i said :)
    – heemayl
    Jun 22, 2016 at 5:34

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