The VectorLinux development team proudly announces the final release of VectorLinux 5.8 SOHO, built on the rock solid base of VL 5.8 standard GOLD. This release addresses all the bugs and suggestions since the RC3 release. We revised the binary NVIDIA and ATI drivers installation where they are compiled for the individual hardware and not thru a pre made package plus updated to latest drivers. We felt it was time to give our users the best out of the box experience and in todays world video performance is a must. The kernel has been revised to 2.6.20.3, Firefox and OpenOffice updated to their latest and some serious updates to Vasm to reflect new configuration programs Several wifi drivers were updated including ndiswrapper and madwifi.
There are some eye candy updates as well as some tweaks to the installation process.
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             The latest SOHO includes a custom 2.6.20.3 SMP Kernel, compiled with bootsplash, squashfs, lzma, and realtime patches. It supports reading and writing to NTFS-formatted media via fuse and ntfs-3g. The desktop environment is KDE version 3.5.6 with Kmyfirewall, Amarok 1.4.5, and OpenOffice version 2.2. Multimedia applications such as VLC 0.8.6a, Mplayer 1.0RC1, K3B-1.0.1 and graphics editors such as The Gimp version 2.2.14 and Xara Xtreme version 0.7. Printing is supported by cups with hpijs drivers for HP printers, and gutenprint drivers for many other popular printers. There is a whole new look and feel, from the boot menu to the desktop. We call it beautiful. We know its fast! The choice is yours.....</p>
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