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 ...

Have you ever needed some information from a file, only to remember that you modified the file a week ago and removed the very information you're interested in? Or, have you ever spent hours sifting ...

Many of the best-organised software projects around the world are the legions of free and open source offerings. This is in part due to one reason, namely the tight use of source code control and ...

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 ...

Git isn't the only open source version control system around. Here's what you need to know about three of its biggest competitors. Git started life as version control software developed to manage the ...