I really liked this Steven J. Vaughan Nichols article on five Linux companies he feels deserved to live. Or, at least, didn't deserve to die. I don't agree with each of his choices, but I completely ...

Welcome to another edition of Linux.Ars. We've been pretty busy here in the Orbiting HQ, preparing for the launch of Ubuntu Hoary this week. Our crack staff has still managed to assemble a top-notch ...

If you work on any kind of open-source project, you've probably worked with CVS. You probably remember the first time you learned to do an anonymous checkout of a source tree over the Net, your first ...

The history of versioning systems is quite extensive. They have proven to be effective during the many stages of project development, from source code management to documentation and publishing. In ...