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VectorLinux SOHO 5.9 Deluxe Reviewed
An anonymous reader writes with a link to Caitlyn Martin's review of the Slackware-based Vector Linux SOHO 5.9 Deluxe: "I've read past reviews by other reviewers describing Vector Linux as 'better Slackware than Slackware' or 'what Slackware should be' and I always felt that was a bit of a stretch. With this release it isn't a stretch. You get all the reliability and stability of Slackware, better performance than vanilla Slack (at least on my hardware) and the features and most of the conveniences users of distributions touted as user friendly have come to expect."
If you have year's(or even decade's) of Slackware experience and are looking for a user friendly distro.
If you have years of slackware experience, why would you need a "user friendly" distro?
If you have years of slackware experience, why would you need a "user friendly" distro?
I used Slackware for about five years, but I got tired of it mainly because of the package system. I tried to remedy this by installing third-party package managers like slapt-get. That didn't work for me either, because of (very) small repositories. About two years ago I decided I care too much about the bleeding edge to use Slackware, which is more stability oriented, and switched to Arch Linux. I keep thinking to myself that it would be nice to have a distribution with roots in Slackware, but with better community support and more recent packages. The point is, even if you want to have control over everything, configure && make && make install starts to drive you nuts after about four years. Even hackers eventually get lazy.
Just like all modern addresses are IPV6? Or all modern storage is solid state? Or all modern ISPs are either wireless or fibre? Or all modern car designs are super efficient? I know, I hate how they drag it out too, but "all modern" is pretty meaningless until it becomes prevalent, by which time it will be obsolete.
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Geek fatigue is real friend.