VectorLinux SOHO: A better Slackware than Slackware (Linux.com)

VectorLinux SOHO: A better Slackware than Slackware (Linux.com)

Posted May 22, 2007 1:00 UTC (Tue) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469)
Parent article: VectorLinux SOHO: A better Slackware than Slackware (Linux.com)

Sounds more like a better Ubuntu than Slackware to me.

I know a lot of Slackers, and while long ago (2+ years) we saw a little bit of cross-over between Vector and Slackware users, today I'm just not seeing that. Perhaps I don't "hang out" in the right places, but it seems to me that Vector is substantially different from Slackware now that its users and Slackware's users have little in common as the distros have such different focuses.

Today, comparing Vector to Slackware strikes me like comparing OpenSuSE to Fedora. After all, they both use the same package manager!

Maybe Vector v. Slackware is sorta like Ubuntu v. Debian. Some newbies (generally speaking) want a "hard core" Linux (whatever that means), but don't like getting their hands elbow deep in their system's guts the way Debian and especially Slackware pretty much require you to do.

Take all this with a grain of salt as I've never run Vector or Ubuntu, and have only had less than a teaspoon's taste of Debian.

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