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Vector Linux 5.8 Gold Review – CPUFreak91

CPUFreak91

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Here's the Vector Linux review I promised.
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/21/166220

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CPUFreak91

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Oops. That was supposed to be a PM.

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Jari

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Thanks for sharing!
VL seems like a decent distro, I did use it for a while since it was supposed to be fast - not sure was it fast or not.

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Nice review, just one little thing...

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Vector is based on Slackware Linux, but adds features that Slackware lacks, such as slapt-get for package management and a Linux 2.6 kernel, a few proprietary programs and plugins (such as Flash) and some eye candy.
I think lack is the wrong word. Slackware doesn't lack a 2.6 kernel and package-management, it doesn't want or need it. Slackware is about security and stability. Hence why 2.4 kernel is still standard, it's tried and tested. Slackware is about being as Unix like as possible.

Vector linux has simply used it's stability as a platform to make a more beginner friendly distro. Does it pull it off? I don't paticuarly think it offers anything new or different. If you want to go the easy root, Debian based distro's are for you, if you don't Slackware, Arch and Gentoo is probably where you want to be looking.

Just my 2 cents.

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well, I read your article. I think it was well written, and I was thinking about trying Vector. but it has no Live CD. so until I have a pc I can just fool around with, I will not be installing it. oh well.

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CPUFreak91

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Originally posted by buddboy:
well, I read your article. I think it was well written,


Thanks!

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and I was thinking about trying Vector. but it has no Live CD. so until I have a pc I can just fool around with, I will not be installing it. oh well.

Yeah that's a disadvantage. Luckily I have a big hard drive with a partition reserved for testing distros or else I would be sunk .

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buddboy

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yeah. but actually I have a pc with a 122 gig in it. and I have 2 partitions, one for windows, and one for Ubuntu. but apparently, there's another partition that linux uses that's like 700-some megs. it's called some kind of logical partition. I'm not sure if Ubuntu needs it or not. and I can't figure out, with that installer, how to create a new partition. not even sure if you can have more than 3. so until I'm sure you can have 4, and I can figure out how to make one more with that installer, I'm not installing it on there. and I don't want to install it anywhere else. and I'm not erasing that 700 meg partition to create a bigger one. cuz I'm not sure if I need it or not.

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CPUFreak91

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Originally posted by buddboy:
but apparently, there's another partition that linux uses that's like 700-some megs. it's called some kind of logical partition.


That's the swap partition.

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I'm not sure if Ubuntu needs it or not.


It doesn't need it, but it makes your computer run faster if it's there.

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and I can't figure out, with that installer, how to create a new partition. not even sure if you can have more than 3.


sudo cfdisk

That will let you see all the partitions you have, add and/or delete them.

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so until I'm sure you can have 4, and I can figure out how to make one more with that installer,


I have 6 partitions. I think you can have a max of 9. You can only have 3 primary partitions, then you have to make the rest logical.

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