Re: Is Ubuntu a debian derivative or is it a fork?

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 16:24, Stephen Birch wrote:
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> Okay ... I missed the development of arch.  Boy ... its difficult to
> keep up with everything going on.  How did the arch project improve on
> Subversion?

SVN (like CVS) is a centralized SCM, while the Arch is a distributed one. You 
can however compare SVK (which implements distributed functionality on top of 
SVN) with Arch and other distributed SCM's. Probably you are looking for a 
reading like that [1]. All of these are already packaged for Debian.

[1] http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html

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