Vector Linux v5.9 GREEN. Release
Dec 24th, 16:02 UTC
The Vector Linux Team has announce the release of Vector Linux v5.9 GREEN. Bleeding edge Open Source at the speed of light.
The Vector Linux Team has announce the release of Vector Linux v5.9 GREEN. Bleeding edge Open Source at the speed of light.
"From the very humble beginning v1.5, (1998) the focus of Vector Linux has been to re-task older hardware. We are very proud of that, and have held true to that Credo. Building Open Source for almost a decade. RE-tasking computers for almost a decade. The support of new hardware has been ingeniously combined with legacy support, to bring you the very best Open Source product we are capable of producing, with ease of installation and bleeding edge software you will be very pleased with what we and many others consider to be the fastest distro out there. If you want a machine that will be screaming fast go with Vector Linux GREEN v5.9. We offer a deluxe two CD version for purchase at ridiculously low price or you can download our FREE version. Our support forum is legendary for being accurate, friendly and fast to answer your questions. New to Vector Linux or a seasoned pro everyone is treated with fairness and understanding. And it is FREE. Our community volunteers are very knowledgeable and friendly. Should you wish to purchase direct one on one support that service is also available from our Knowledge Hub link hosted in full by the good folks at http://sqi-inc.com/ic/ . Please visit their site. They contribute a lot to Vector Linux.
We do our part to GREEN the planet so you can do yours. Every purchase helps us continue our work, we have been serving the computing public with Vector Linux for almost a decade. We have worked the bugs out long ago, and could not have done it without the countless volunteers and supporters like you.
Vector Linux v5.9 Green, Greening one machine at a time. Saving precious resources from the landfill and GREENING them back to good use."
For more info on Vector Linux please check out there website at http://vectorlinux.com
The VectorLinux development team is proud to announce the release of VectorLinux 5.9 final GOLD edition. This is the fruit that has resulted from several months of coding, debugging and testing by the core development team and the Vector community. This release follows our legendary tradition of stability (inherited from SlackWare-12), blazing speed on even modest hardware and simplicity of design and function. The release features fully working browser plugins including Flash, java, mp3, real media, Windows media, pdf and Quick time. Additional features include: X.org 7.3, Linux kernel 2.6.22.14, fully customized Xfce 4.4.2, Fluxbox, Jwm, SeaMonkey Internet Suite 1.1.7, Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Opera 9.5.0 beta1 (so you'll be sure to have your favorite browser!). Abiword and Gnumeric for your office tasks. We include our own suite of gui configuration and support tools such as Vasm, Vwifi and Gslapt. There is a full set of the latest wireless drivers and configuration tools, support for read and write to ntfs via fuse and ntfs-3g. We have games lots of games. Printers, scanners and cameras are supported as well. Popular programs like amarok, openoffice, kde-3.5.8 and many others are available in our repository which currently boasts well over a thousand of the most popular linux applications and support software. Other news with this release is VLpackager, an easy way to package source code into usable binary packages and at long last a GUI control center dubbed VasmCC. We also have a modified version of cruxports for those wishing to easily build software that may not have made it to the repository yet.
(Submitted by Darrell J. Stavem of vector linux)
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