You’ve most likely been using other kinds of version control systems as well, and I was wondering how Bazaar compares to Subversion. I’ve been using Subversion for a few years now in order to manage several game development projects, and I keep hearing the buzz about Bazaar lately. My quest for finding a credible review on the differences among various VCSs failed, so I figured I’d probably find out by hearing it from you. Briefly, how does Bazaar compare to Subversion (and other VCS)?

Thank you very much.

-Djordy Seelmann

Mark Shuttleworth says:

Subversion is faster, but designed only for centralised use. There are some tools emerging to let you commit offline and do better branching and merging, but they haven’t yet reached the level of fluidity that projects like Git, Mercurial and Bazaar all have. I’d recommend you try Bazaar for yourself. If you have a tree of less than 5,000 files it’s plenty fast enough (status in less than a heartbeat, or 0.7 seconds). The dev team is focused now on raising the performance for very, very large trees too.

Suppose this is not the best place to submit a comment relating UBUNTU in general . I understand that ubuntu is a stable distro aiming to be a more polished user firendly solution for those that want linux. As a doctor and and as someone with an interest in IT, it was really sad that we struggled working in hospitals all over SOuth africa with non existent IT systems. This is especially true in the smaller clinics (I worked in a clinic 400miles from Uppington so I know!!) I whish there was a plug and play linux box that could help record medical data and patient records. THis would boost public health care in africa to the next level. MOst of the software out there is so complex in linux or so expensive in windows that we end up with paper paer and more paper. The other dillemma is that recording statistics is a nightmare and its mostly done in the big hospitals. So if you know of any project like this I would love to be involved ( I still have not found anything on the net except the open Electronic medical record program and thats for european countries with nothing of use). Please mail me a team leader name. IO am working in the UK now for a big pharma compnay and i owuld love to put something back for SA.

Dr William Kleynhans

The article claims Simonyi is the “first nerd in space” as well as the first billionaire. Aside from the fact that most astronauts are nerdy, can’t you claim both titles?

Best Regards,
Mark Turner
http://www.markturner.net
(P.S. Ubuntu rules!)

Mark Shuttleworth says:

Yes But nonetheless I hope Charles has a smooth and productive ride!

My main concerns were regarding the upgrade process but if you say it’s smooth and trouble-free, I’m on.

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