Vector Linux aims to be a user-friendly Linux distribution for Intel, AMD and x86 platforms based on the earlier Slackware distribution. Vector Linux was originally a Canadian distribution, and is now developed by an international community. The latest versions (as of December 18, 2006) are 5.8 Standard Edition and 5.1.2 SOHO Edition. Vector aims to cater to the diverse needs of its user base, although the developers and user community pay special attention to new and learning users, as well as owners of relatively old hardware, such as Pentium IIs. For this reason, Vector retains legacy drivers for such hardware and the forum actively supports users of equipment that would be considered outdated by today's standards. Vector has even been used for software development and web serving, although none of these is the primary focus of the distribution.

Differences between SOHO and Standard SOHO and Standard differ in a number of respects. SOHO assumes fairly modern hardware and includes larger applications, notably the KDE suite and OpenOffice.org. Moreover, choice of certain application versions is conservative in terms of stability, so as to prevent difficulties with newer and potentially immature software. SOHO chose to stay with the 2.4 series kernel, considered more stable than the newer 2.6 line of kernels, until 5.0.1. SOHO 5.1.1 was released with the 2.6.13 kernel. The Standard Edition includes the new 2.6 kernels since version 4.3 and chooses less resource-intensive applications, omitting KDE in favor of IceWM and XFce, and OpenOffice in favor of programs like AbiWord.

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