Vector Linux 4 Reviewed

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Posted by Hemos on Monday October 27, 2003 @02:31AM 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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omg !!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 02:31 · Score: -1, Troll

dritte erst post heute ???
(Adolf Hitroll)
1. Re:omg !!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 02:36 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Neen, ik ben de koning van schuinestreep-punt, beste Adolf
  Z.K.H. Prins Bernhard
  PS heb je mijn brief nog ontvangen?
2. Re:omg !!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 02:39 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Hoe is 't met uw vrienden van de Dirk van den Broek?
3. Re:omg !!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 02:46 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  Mein Firstpost-Fuehrer!
  
  It has come to my attention that, it's not unusual for a woman, through sheer joy of having a son, to delight in the boy to such an extent that she will kiss him all over and suck his penis. This can be thought of as on the margins of motherhood, but if a father was so delighted in the birth of a girl that he kissed her vulva, he'd immediately be labelled as a sex abuser!
  
  Heil Post, mein Fuehrer!
4. Re:omg !!! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 03:02 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  "Nein, ich bin der Konig vom "Schuinestreep"-Punkt, mein bester Adolf. P.S hast Du noch meinen Brief bekommen?" Dank je wel for de Brief, mijn vriend van de kaas maar en DUITSLAND de hele DUITSE praten DUITSE EN NIET NEDERLANDSE TAAL! JE HEB VERSTAN?? ?? Also bitte: Ab jetzt alles auf Deutsch und nicht dieses elendige Kauderwelsch aus Deutsch und Englisch was ja das Hollanderische Niederdeutsch eigenlich ist. Wenn ich als Deutscher auch nur versuche diese abartige Perversion unserer Deutschen Sprache in den Mund zu nehmen, so lost es mir hochstens den Schleim aus dem Rachen. Ihr seid Deutsche ob es euch Recht ist oder nicht, nehmt also endlich auch sprachlich Haltung an! Eure Sprache ist namlich eine einzige Beleidigung fur unsere deutschen Ohren und wenn es nach mir ginge wurde ich euch alle bis auf die letzte Kaseecke (mein Wort fur junge noch nicht geschlechtsreife weibliche Sprachbehinderte) in der Nordsau ersaufen!!!!! Deutschland: SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL! SIEG HEIL!
Penus Torvalds? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 02:35 · Score: -1, Troll

Did Penus Torvalds personally authorize this copy, or is it yet another rogue distribution?
SilentBob4 new to /.? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 02:35 · Score: -1, Troll

Even if you don't have to time to read the whole article (it's two pages long), do check out the benchmark results. "

Who here has time to actually read the linked articles? TWO WHOLE PAGES LONG, EVEN? Hah!

You'll be lucky to get replies that make a passing reference to the story's summary.
meh... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 03:08 · Score: -1, Troll

does anyone care?
Re:I am rolling it out in a school by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-27 03:16 · Score: -1, Troll

JFC, I can't believe that got "interesting". It's crap, he's lying, whoring for karma. Hello!!!
Re:Okay, "stupid question" time by FooBarWidget · 2003-10-27 05:28 · 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.