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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. Re:Okay, "stupid question" time by FooBarWidget · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I'll probably get flamed for saying this,"

    Bla bla, people say this all the time. When will you people finally realize that Slashdot is not a pro-OSS/Linux site anymore?
    If you critisize Linux, you will get modded UP!
    If you pay a little attention to the comments, you'll notice that this has been true for more than a year now; probably for more than two years. Yet people still come up with the "if I critisize Linux I'll get modded down"-stereotype. Of course, those people will happily get modded up, and next time they still continue with posting this outdated and false stereotype. Just look at the Longhorn article; people critisize Linux for still not being mainstream, and they get modded up as Insightful. I can remember more Linux criticism posts from the past that got modded up to +5.

    Here's another newsflash for you:
    If you defend Microsoft, you can be modded up!
    Yes, it's true! I see them in every MS vs OSS or Windows vs Linux article. The MS defendant posts usually get modded up as +5 Insightful/Informative.

    SLashdot is a pro-Mac site. If you critisize MacOS X, *then* you'll get modded down.