A version control system useful to software developers.
> why we need this ?
If you don't know what it is you don't need it.
(No flame intended) You could not be more wrong. I coded programs (mostly for school, sometimes as a hobby) for about 8 years before finding out about CVS. All I can say was that as the professor (it was a Software Engineering class) explained what CVS did, I thought how nice it would have been to know about it earlier.
Anyone who develops a program more complex than a 'Hello World!' program can benefit greatly from CVS (even if they don't know what it is at the moment). As a matter of fact, it is really useful for anything that requires documents to be repetitively modified. I use it for source code, LaTeX files, bibTeX bibliographies, reports, and lots of other things.
I also find it to be an extremely handy backup tool. I keep my main repository on my desktop at home. I can check out the whole thing onto my notebook and have all the files I need. Once a week (or more frequently if necessary) I commit all the changes to the repository on my desktop. For backup, I can just tar and zip the whole repository and burn it to CD.
Just some ideas.
-Roberto
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