My team is moving from Visual SourceSafe to Subversion soon, while developing/supporting a legacy project in Visual Basic 6.0, so I have a couple of questions:
For the server side, VisualSVN Server, is a super simple solution, we are running it in a vmware virtual, and its humming along.
If you are a command line guy, I really like the command line interface for svn, I find it less confusing to get to certain actions than tortoise, such as status of the folder. But if you are an explorer fan, tortoise is more than adequate, coming from a source safe world.
The main things to ignore are: