The subversion client that comes with the Ubuntu linux distribution has problems connecting to the Rice campus subversion server.
The problem stems from the fact that Ubuntu packages are by default compiled against gnutls instead of openssl. There appears to be a protocol issue with the gnutls package that causes extremely slow server response when connecting to our openssl compiled server.
There are two possible solutions to this issue for Ubuntu users.
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Ubuntu has two versions of libneon Neon available.
- libneon27 (which uses openssl)
- libneon27-gnutls (which uses gnutls)
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