VL-5.8 standard final is under the tree. Merry Christmas!!
The Vector developement team is proud to announce the release of Vector
Linux 5.8 Standard final, code named "Santa" (Merry Christmas!). This
is the fruit that has resulted from several months of coding, debugging
and testing by the core developement team and the Vector community.
This release follows our legendary tradition of stability (inherited
from Slackware11.0), blazing speed on even modest hardware. and
simplicity of design and function. The release features fully working
browser plugins including Flash 9, java, mp3, real media, Windows media
and DVD playback (including encrypted movies).
Additional features include: Linux kernel 2.6.18.5, fully customized Xfce 4.3.99.2, SeaMonkey Internet
Suite
1.0.6, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9.10 (so you'll be sure to have your
favourite browser!). The Gimp and Xara LX for your graphic needs,
Abiword and Gnumeric for your office
tasks. We include our own suite
of configuration and support tools such as vasm, vl-hot, and Gslapt.
There is a full set of wireless drivers and configuration tools,
support for read and write to ntfs via fuse and ntfs-3g and we have
games lots of games. Printers, scanners and cameras are supported as
well. We have popular programs like openoffice 2.10 and kde-3.5.5 and
many others available in our repository just a slapt-get away.
Merry Christmas and happy new year!! Enjoy!
The VL team
