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IMHO, Linux would be ready for primetime IF its development was controlled by a committee or something like that. After more than twenty years been a Unix admin, i cannot stand Linux mess, and i don't mean kernel itself which is ok, but the whole thing as an OS.
Even the most conservative distributors like Slackware, use to include a whole bunch of useless old and unstable crap into their base system breaking all standards including POSIX.
Volunteer developers prefer X desktop development. Even so, they put their efforts to countless windows managers, desktop implementations and different projects that will die sooner or later.

All the above are simple facts that prove Linux wrong direction. People recognize Unix as the leading server OS, but all of us, try to make it a pretty desktop alternative, with no success even after more than a decade.
Look what Apple did. They forked FreeBSD (much better than Linux imho), dropped useless parts, for them, like X and finally build an excellent GUI over it. With no more than fifty developers, in less than three years.
Another example was BeOS although was abandoned after Palm acquired Be. In that case, a single developer with a small support team built a kernel and a GUI OS using the common GNU framework and utility set.

What was Linux progress all that time ? Do you really believe IT and admins interest on KDE or Gnome or X desktop ? Or do they like spend hundreds of hours checking versions and lib dependencies? I don't think so.

Please, don't call me "Windows fan" In my company I use FreeBSD as my preferable server OS, for both web and file server and I'm also involved with system (Kernel) development on my spare time. If you want my honest opinion, yes i'm afraid that Windows will dominate on server market too .NET ASPX IIS7 XAML-enabled browsing and all that stuff show MS direction to server market. And they did it right, that's the problem.

BTW, I really believe that future companies will prefer using a server OS, known to their employees instead asking help from dinosaurs like me

Thank you all for the info,
Subversion command line did the trick although i still prefer a daily updated downloadable archive.

Thank you Rickard

Rickard, i don't like bugs and compatibility issues in general. Never said that IE has no such problem, but in my experience latest IE builds have far less issues than Opera and Firefox IF user knows hot to configure security options right.

Opera cannot render right many web pages and crashes every so. A no-go for me.
Firefox is buggy and unstable, and much slower than both IE and Opera.

I really don't like IE and all its quirks (especially ActiveX) but it works
As of IE security holes, can you imagine what would happened if Opera or FF was used by 90% of internet users ? For now, nobody interests to break FF/Op security because of their low spread across net.
It's just my opinion though

Me too

Do you mean version number itself ? If so, it is saved in mysql punbb config table. You can use something like phpMyAdmin to edit this table.

www part is enough to handle any case. As a quickfix did that using str_replace() and works just fine.
I also had to modify some quick validation in code, that don't call confirm_referer.