14 DAY TRIAL // The VectorLinux team launched a LiveCD version of the DELUXE SOHO edition for their distribution. The VectorLinux SOHO 5.9 Preview LiveCD is offered for free so everyone can try the product - VectorLinux DELUXE SOHO - before buying it. The developers want to make sure that the upcoming DELUXE SOHO edition works on everyone's hardware.
The LiveCD brings you a secure 2.6.22.19 Linux kernel, with X.org 7.3 and the latest version of KDE from the 3.5 branch, KDE 3.5.9. If you need to create and/or edit documents, spreadsheets or presentations, you can do that with the help of OpenOffice 2.3.1.
Seamonkey 1.1.9, Firefox 2.0.0.13 and Opera are the three browsers available in this LiveCD. I think including more than one web browser is a good idea, taking into consideration the fact that users might have different tastes when it comes to this sort of applications.
VectorLinux SOHO 5.9 Preview sports a full range of multimedia programs, such as K3B for CD/DVD burning, Amarok and iPod support. You can use the LiveCD as a stand-alone operating system, without the need to install it on the hard drive. The advantage is that you have a portable full-fledged operating system that you can take wherever you like and do all the basic (maybe more than basic, though) tasks with it.
About VectorLinux:
VectorLinux is a Linux distro based on Slackware, which aims to provide speed, performance, stability and ease of use. It was started by Robert S. Lange and Darrell Stavem in 1998, with its first version launched in June 1999. Two front-ends were created for slapt-get, a package management solution used by VectorLinux. The first one was VL-APT, created by the Vector development team to have a GUI for package management, and the second was gslapt, created by the original developers of slapt-get with the same purpose. Recently, the VL-APT option has become obsolete, because of the changes in the slapt-get packaging format. The developers promoted gslapt as the viable package manager.
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