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 # zot [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/anuvu/zot.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/anuvu/zot) [![codecov.io](http://codecov.io/github/anuvu/zot/coverage.svg?branch=master)](http://codecov.io/github/anuvu/zot?branch=master) [![Conformance Results](https://github.com/anuvu/zot/workflows/conformance/badge.svg)](https://github.com/anuvu/zot/actions?query=workflow%3Aconformance)
 
-**zot** is a vendor-neutral OCI image repository server purely based on 
+**zot** is a vendor-neutral OCI image registry server purely based on 
 [OCI Distribution Specification](https://github.com/opencontainers/distribution-spec).
 
 https://anuvu.github.io/zot/