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| VectorLinux 5.0 SOHO goes gold |
Mar. 01, 2005
The Vector Linux project has released VectorLinux Soho v5.0, described as "a very feature-rich full-sized Linux distribution aimed at the small office/home office (SOHO) user." Key enhancements, according to the project team, include "a fresh new look to the desktop," and a number of changes "under the hood."
Among the "under the hood" changes are "huge improvements in VASM," the system administration utility, and the addition of VLAPT, the first generation of a package management system with dependency tracking, based on Slapt-get. Additionally, the installer has been rewritten, resulting in improved hardware detection and package selection, and the init routine has been reworked with the result of "dramatically [reducing] boot time by about 50 percent."
VL Soho 5.0 is based on the recently released Slackware 10.1. "This means a very fine-tuned distro with Slack's rock-solid base and the most up to date stable packages available," the project team says.
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