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I just installed vector linux on my 128 mb pc, man I never thought this pc would run this good. Thanks to all the people who advised me to use ...
  1. 01-21-2006 #1
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    Vector Linux runs like a dream!

    I just installed vector linux on my 128 mb pc, man I never thought this pc would run this good. Thanks to all the people who advised me to use it.
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    It's been about a year since I've tried it, but yes, Vector is nice.
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    Vector is pretty good. What DE are you using?

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    Yeah I just installed vector on my other spare partition and so far i'm pretty impressed. i don't like that they use lilo as the boot loader because that made me have to screw around with my other grub files and placement of my kernels but the xfce4 that comes standard is really slick looking. I haven't messed around with it too much but I'm hoping the slapt-get is comparible to pacman on arch because I really like that package manager.
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    I've had bad experience with Vector. Has the development team at least gotten their act together enough to fix the USB keyboard issue?
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    Quote Originally Posted by spencerf
    I haven't messed around with it too much but I'm hoping the slapt-get is comparible to pacman on arch because I really like that package manager.
    In my opinion, Slapt-get isn't nearly up to speed when compared to Pacman. It's just slower, it feels clumsier, and it's generally more work trying to use it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bryansmith
    Vector is pretty good. What DE are you using?

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    IceWM, I like how it looks and it runs fast. I might try out fluxbox too, except in my opinion it doesn't look nearly as good.
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    Yeah, I like the IceWM implementation in Vector too. Vector has an E17 slapt-get repo too if you want to try that.

    I found slapt-get to be very slow. It took ages to get E17...I can't remember if I let it finish or not. That said, pacman is slow at updating the database. Package download in pacman is blazing fast though!

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    Quote Originally Posted by bryansmith
    pacman is slow at updating the database
    I haven't found it to be slow at all. In fact I just did a refresh and it took only 3 or 4 seconds from start to finish.

    Maybe you need to reorder your mirror listing, or something. Mine used to run a bit slow but once I removed all the ibiblio mirrors things started going really fast.

    Sorry, oosterhouse... didn't mean to steal your thread with this.
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    Same here oosterhouse.

    I will give it a go, thanks for the suggestion ozar.

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