Linux Configuration Management and Version Control

This page is thin, its under development.

Some general references:

A generic reference is at Andre's config-mgmt yellow pages.
A thorough listing of configuration management products(for all operating systems), some of which support Linux.
Project Management & Bug Tracking for Linux

Commercial Products

INTERSOLV PVCS

New Listing! PVCS provides software configuration management and version control. Runs under most all Unixes, OpenVMS, Windows/NT, Windows 95, and OS/2.

SCM

UniPress Software provide SCM (Source Code Manager). The offer a free single-user version.

The client is X11 based.

Perforce

Perforce generously allows you to try out their software before you buy. They allow non-commercial users of FreeBSD an unlimited free license. Maybe if you ask nice, they will provide this for Linux too?

The design is client-server, and does not rely on a shared file system for distributed operation. The tool is an ASCII command-line tool, and although it include perl cgi scripts for invocation from a web browser, it does not have an X11 interface.

Perforce provides RCS/CVS-to-Perforce conversion scripts.

CMZ

CMZ Software Version Control and Configuration Management tool.

Non-Commercial Tools

An excellent overview of free tools lies here.

RCS: Low-level. Not client-server. Available on most Linux distributions.
CVS: Provides multiple user checkout, and a client-server model. Available on most Linux distributions.
RAD/CVS: TCL/TK & Java interfaces to CVS. See the RADSoft page. Under active development.
TkCVS A different CVS GUI.
Aegis

Other Stuff

BEAM: A tool for the automated distribution of software onto clusters of workstations. The is a perl script ??? (ftp site).