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Brief Review Of Vector Linux SOHO
duncan bayne writes "I have just installed Vector Linux SOHO 5.0 RC2 on my old P150 laptop. Overall I was very impressed, and have posted a brief review on my blog. This distro has a lot to offer, especially to schools and other organisations trying to extract more useful life from obsolete hardware."
my pentium mmx piece of shit laptop i got laying around waiting a linux install doesn't have a cdrom drive... so bootfloppy started network install is just about the only realistical option for installing linux on it(or borrowing a suitable cdrom drive from someone).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
It seems to me that most Linux distributions stand or fall based on the quality and availability of their packaging system.
It's disappointing to see this system doesnt have packages for vim, or lyx. So the reviewer had to install from source.
Sure that's possible, and trivial for small packages without tons of dependencies - but building from source seems to me to be something you'd wish to avoid when installing on a P160 with 64Mb of RAM...
Unfortunate, I guess if the distro becomes more popular the archive will grow, but if it doesn't then there will be a big downside to using it.
RTFA and you find out that he had to compile many things from source, by hand, as the VLAPT system doesn't contain many packages.
Not "impressive" or "polished" at all.
There's no mention of what the default KDE is like (beyond "slow") as he uses IceWM. Nothing about hardware detection. No screenshots. Nothing.
Awful, awful article apparently reviewing an awful, awful distro; but he doesn't tell us enough to say how good it is.
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