VectorLinux 5.1 Live CD

VectorLinux 5.1 Live CD final has been released today for download: "The VectorLinux team is proud to announce the release of the VL-5.1 standard Live CD. On this little CD you get everything in VectorLinux standard edition including 3 full featured desktops, Icewm, Fluxbox, and xfce4, a full office suite, and too many other apps to mention.

We have added Gparted for all of your GUI partitioning needs. The Live-CD installer icon is now on all of the root ROX desktops along with an icon for Gparted. We have added more options to the hard drive installer including an option for a separate /home partition, and the ability to choose if, and where to install lilo. We have added wifi-radar for easy connections to wireless networks, and more wireless drivers and firmware so now even more cards are supported. Cards with ipw2100 and ipw2200 chipsets should now work out of the box.

Updates from 5.1 Standard non-live version include kernel 2.6.15.3, Firefox-1.5.0.4, ndiswrapper 1.9, OpenOffice 2.0, udev 0.71, wifi-radar 1.9.6, Gparted 0.2.4, and its dependencies. We have decided to fill the empty space on the CD with the kernel source for those of you that need it to build drivers and such."

What is VectorLinux?

VectorLinux is a small, fast, Linux operating system for Intel, AMD and x86 compatible systems, based on Slackware Linux distribution.

Here are some features of VectorLinux:

￭ Kernel version 2.6.12 available in SATA, IDE and SCSI configurations. ￭ Glibc-2.3.4 ￭ Xorg-6.8.2 is the default X window system. ￭ New graphical/text package management with Gslapt and slapt-get. ￭ New usb-mount for automounting usb devices like pendrives. ￭ Easy on your system resources, should run fine with a minimum of 32mb of ram ￭ Only requires 950 megs of disk space for full install (but you should have more available for additional programs and swap space) ￭ Laptop support including pcmcia and apm. ￭ USB support with hotplugging

Most available Linux hardware drivers are included.

Desktop Features:

￭ XFCE4.2, Fluxbox and ICEwm window managers with antialias font support. More available on the deluxe CD. ￭ Fully customized KDE-3.4.1 available on the deluxe CD version. ￭ Freerock Gnome 2.10.2 is included with deluxe version as a second CD ￭ Internet ready with Firefox, Dillo, Gaim, Xchat and more. Mplayer, flash, acrobat reader and java all available on the deluxe CD. ￭ Abiword, a stand alone full featured word processor that imports exports MS word style documents. OpenOffice available on the deluxe CD. ￭ Xview and GQview for viewing, manipulating and editing graphics files ￭ The GIMP, a very sophisticated image creation program available on the deluxe CD ￭ XMMS to play most music formats including CD's ￭ A full compliment of GUI programs to handle email, file management, text editing, sound manipulation, file compression, desktop themes and more.

Console Features:

￭ Full development suite with most common libraries, compilers and related tools. ￭ gcc updated to version 3.3.4.

￭ PPP setup wizard for easy connection to the net via your modem. Both pppsetup and wvdial available. Updated gkdial is now available also. ￭ VI style text editors, mutt for email, lynx text web browsing, Midnight Commander file manager, ncftp, telnet, ping, finger and all the basic networking applications and daemons. ￭ Vim, apache, mysql, Emacs, samba, screen all available on the deluxe CD version. ￭ Added security with a built in gshield firewall, port sentry, openssl and openssh.. ￭ Enhanced USB support with hotplugging. ￭ The default file manager (midnight commander) will install/uninstall all software packages including rpms, slps, debs, and tgz.

Here are some screenshots of VectorLinux 5.1 Live CD that we have made:

The XFCE4 Desktop