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Vector Linux 4 Reviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-of-the-old-school dept.

SilentBob4 writes "On October 7th, the developers at Vector Linux released the latest version of their lightweight Linux distro, version 4. Vector has always been built upon the Slackware Linux framework and this time around it is based on Slack 9.0. The interesting thing here is that there was quite a delay between releases from the Vector camp, so as they were readying version 4, Pat Volkerding was releasing version 9.1 of his Slackware distro. This past Friday, the first review of Vector Linux was released (Distrowatch.com posted a link to it today). It was a pretty good review for the most part, but the interesting thing about it was that they actually benchmarked it against Slackware 9.1 and posted the results. I'll spoil the ending right now and tell you that Vector Linux won, but you should check out the findings. There are some pretty interesting numbers obtained from the two distros. The reviewer has published three PDF documents detailing the results. Everything was tested from the kernel to filesystem performance. It is interesting to say the least. Even if you don't have to time to read the whole article (it's two pages long), do check out the benchmark results. "

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  1. we need a new cliche by rootofevil · · Score: 2, Funny

    every time you slashdot a server, god kills a kitten.

    please, think of the kittens.

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  2. The 4th kind of lie by tangent3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdotters should know by know that there are now 4 kind of lies. Lies, damned lies, statistics and benchmarks.

  3. The solution... by leoboiko · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...slashdot God!

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  4. Every time you make that joke... by yerricde · · Score: 2, Funny

    Every time you make that f*@!(%# joke, God kills a Domo-kun.

    Please, think of the Domo-kuns.

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  5. Re:Yeah? So? by fdawg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Itd be a joke if it wasnt true.

    "#apt-get install flame-armor increased-karma"

  6. How very... (what's the word I'm looking for) by joeslugg · · Score: 4, Funny
    The interesting thing here is...
    ...but the interesting thing about it was...
    There are some pretty interesting numbers...
    It is interesting to say the least.

    I'm searching for an adjective to describe this article. Somebody help me here...

  7. Re:233Mhz is slow? by chasec · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have a 386? In my day, we didn't have no fancy-schmancy 386s. We had an abacus, and we liked it!

    I overclocked my abacus, and that thing was fast. It runs linux as fast as you can move the beads.

    Kids these days...