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Software

Submission + - The Future of Subversion (red-bean.com)

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sciurus0
sciurus0 writes: "As the open source version control system Subversion nears its 1.5 release, one of its developers asks what is the projects future? One the one hand, the number of public Subversion dav servers is still growing quadratically. On the other hand, open source developers are increasingly switching to distributed version control systems like Git and Mercurial. Is there still a need for centralized version control in some environments, or is Linus Torvalds right that all who use it are "ugly and stupid"?"
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Submission + - Walt Mossberg Reviews Ubuntu (allthingsd.com)

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sciurus0
sciurus0 writes: "Mainstream technology journalist Walt Mossberg recently reviewed an Inspiron 1420N with Ubuntu installed by Dell. Citing problems such as an oversensitive touchpad and poor multimedia support, he suggests that "from the point of view of an average user, someone who wouldn't want to enter text commands, hunt the Web for drivers and enabling software, or learn a whole new user interface" Ubuntu isn't a good choice compared to Windows or OS X."

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