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."

Comments

Don't be a chicken

[Chemisor]

> especially when cutting edge means nothing and stability is paramount.

Now that's just a load of FUD. A 64 bit Linux is just as stable as a 32 bit one. It is not even "cutting edge", since the same source is compiled on both platforms. If you write good code, you shouldn't even have to change anything; just recompile and run. I run Slamd64 myself, and everything on it is 64bit and very nice and stable.

> Most of the useful(java plugin) or popular apps(games, some business) are not as
> stable in 64-bit if they exist at all(skype) so why put out a 64 bit distro

So it's a chicken and egg problem. Somebody has to start wanting 64 bit programs before companies will start providing them. It's the nature of business. Sure, you might not see any benefit from migrating to 64 bit, just as many people like you did not see any benefit from migrating to 32 bit from good old DOS. But a distribution packager is supposed to know these things, supposed to care about the advantages of the x64 platform. He ought to start migrating everything and everyone onto 64 bit, because it will eventually happen, just as 32 bit application completely replaced 16 bit ones. Be the egg, not the chicken.