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Interview With Robert Lange, co-founder and lead developer of VectorLinux (DistroWatch Weekly #308)

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The Slackware-based VectorLinux project has been around for almost a decade, making regular releases of the fast, desktop-friendly Linux distribution. Robert Lange, the project's co-founder and lead developer, was kind enough to agree to an interview. How did it all start? And what does the future hold for the project? Read on to find the answers to these and other questions. In the news section, the Fedora community announces a new live CD featuring the lightweight LXDE desktop environment, Mandriva prepares for its 2010 release with major changes to the development branch, and Ubuntu gets set to tackle minor annoyances which impact negatively on user experience. Also in the news, we link to an interview with Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre and O'Reilly publishes answers provided by developers about the recently released OpenBSD 4.5.

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Comments (7)

nikkels ·
Interview gets spelled with one " t " only
caitlyn ·
...and Chris Smart has an 'r' in his last name. Hopefully one of the editors will see this and make the necessary corrections.

Oh, and if those are my typos I'll blame it on several nights with little or no sleep.
caitlyn ·
Thank you, Scott. It probably was me.
ComputerBob ·
I like that interview. He seems like a really nice, really real guy.

But boy, he doesn't look much at all like his VectorLinux support forum avatar.

Come to think of it, though, I'm kind of relieved.
caitlyn ·
No, he sure doesn't look like his avatar. He offered a picture with his grandkids (not appropriate for DistroWatch) which certainly isn't the image that avatar gives.
Steven_Rosenber ·
Vector seems atypical of Linux distros in that it is, at one level, seeking commercial business a la Mepis. I wonder how that side of the business is going.

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