14 DAY TRIAL // The founder and leader of Linux has launched a new software management configuration system, called Git. After having some problems, Linus was forced to give up on the previous version.
At the beginning of the month, Torvalds gave up the BitKeeper administering solution, returning to an older and slower technique of sending the updates through e-mail to the programmers involved in this project. However, adopting the Git system requires including once again an automatic control system for the update flux, to monitor every change.
In 2002, Torvalds adopted BitKeeper, a solution previously owned by BitMover from South San Francisco, Calif. At that time, Linus was thrilled by this solution because it increased Linux's efficiency, but started to complain that the system is not only based on open-source solutions, but also on licensed software.
But the biggest complaint showed up this year, from the makers of the solution, BitMover. Larry McVoy, its founder, had objections about the unfavorable conditions in which BitKeper is used by the open-source community and the attempts of copying this application. One of the "copied" versions is being developed by Andrew Tidwell, one of Torvalds's colleagues from Open Source Development Labs, who is trying to come up with a project called SourcePuller compatible with BitKeeper.
Unlike that solution, Git is not trying to be compatible with BitKeeper, so the problem with McVoy is solved, but adopting the new system will be more difficult for the other users.