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

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on Thursday May 08, 2008 @09:42PM

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"?"

Submission + - Ruby 1.9.0 Released (ruby-forum.com)

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on Tuesday December 25, 2007 @08:56PM

sciurus0 writes: "The 1.9.0 development version of the Ruby programming language has been released. This version has many changes, including a new virtual machine that provides great speed improvements."

Submission + - Walt Mossberg Reviews Ubuntu (allthingsd.com)

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on Monday September 17, 2007 @01:41AM

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."

Submission + - Google's FUSE Port Brings NTFS Support to OS X

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sciurus0

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:49PM

sciurus0 writes: "In his session at Macworld on OS X filesytems, Google's Amit Singh announced that he has ported Linux's FUSE module to OS X. The port is called MacFUSE and is available in source form and as a precompiled kernel extension with associated tools. Many FUSE filesystems such as sshfs and ntfs-3g are reported to work."

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