New Release of a Cool Canadian Distro: Vector Linux 5.8

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jan 6, 2007 1:06 PM EDT
Linux DevCenter; By Caitlyn Martin
Mail this story
Print this story

Once upon a time there was a small, lightweight distribution based on Slackware. It wasn’t all that different from any of a number of small, lightweight distros designed to work on older hardware though it seemed to be well thought out. That was Vector Linux 1.8 six years ago. Since then VL has grown into a full featured distribution available in several different configurations. The latest release, Vector Linux 5.8, appeared on December 18th and it is clearly the most mature yet, in many ways equaling or even surpassing more popular distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandriva. If the developers manage to smooth out the few remaining rough edges they may find themselves with a distro that is as popular as any of those.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Groups: Fedora, Mandriva, Slackware, Ubuntu, Linux; Story Type: News Story

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.