Miscellany

After many alpha releases the VectorLinux development team is happy to announce the first public release of the 5.8 SOHO version. This beta 1 release is built on our solid Slackware 11 and VL 5.8 standard base. Included is a custom smp kernel 2.6.20 with bootsplash, squashfs, lzma, and realtime patches, KDE 3.5.6 with Kmyfirewall, Amarok 1.4.5, OpenOffice 2.1, VLC 0.8.6a, Mplayer 1.0RC1, Gimp 2.2.13, and many other features.