Vector Linux 4 Reviewed

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. "

Comments

Good move

[El Cubano]

I'll spoil the ending right now and tell you that Vector Linux won, but you should check out the findings.

Great, now no one has to RTFA. Oh wait, I forgot this is /.

Re:omg !!!

[Anonymous Coward]

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mynuts won: pretty funnIE

[Anonymous Coward]

if you can chance to ignore yet another whoreabull failure of va lairIE/robbIE's pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise.

Re:we need a new cliche

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a trap!

Gentoo

[terrencefw]

For anybody looking for a small, fast distro, I would highly recommend Gentoo. The performance is amazing once all the bits have been compiled. My Gentoo P-III 500MHz laptop encodes oggvorbis at about the same rate as my 1.3GHz Duron, which is running a straight RH9 install.

I don't really understand how this distro can be faster, than others if it is still a binary distribution.

Wait, isn't Linux dead yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Long live FreeBSD!