############################## |vector_edition| Light Edition ############################## What´s in the Light Edition? ============================ Vector Linux Light provides a lean and mean Linux system. It is optimized for use on older computers and is surprisingly lightweight, fast and stable. Despite being "light weight", it is a complete Linux workstation system, including compilers, multimedia and office applications. The most recent release of VL Light is still in beta development stage, up to version Beta 2 as at February 25th, 2009. It is not recommended that newbies install this system until it has been finalized. |vector_edition| Light is unlike smaller Linux distros such as Puppy, DSL, Feather and others. Instead it includes a full development environment for programming and compiling, scripting languages, man pages, documentation, a complete console based on bash (rather than busybox) and a huge array of typical Linux command line utilities and software. It also has these features: - a fun, fast and easy installer with good hardware detection. Install time is only about 10-12 minutes on modern computers. - the latest IceWM and JWM window managers with the PCManFM desktop manager - both are good-looking and fast window managers which consume few system resources. - VASM: a powerful system administration utility. - VASMCC: a user-friendly GUI interface to VASM. - gslapt and slapt-get for easy, automated package downloading, upgrading, installation and maintenance. - HAL or vl-hot systems, for detection and auto-mounting of USB storage devices, low resources. - Opera browser. - Many other Internet applications including Pidgin, XChat, gFTP, Lynx, nmapFE, pyNeighborhood. - vcpufreq: for reducing CPU frequency on supported processors, mainly for laptops to save power. - vwifi: a special version of WiFi manager for help configuring various wireless cards and networks. - MPlayer, Xine and xmms for multimedia and entertainment - for music and video and web content streaming. - vsmbmount: a Samba connectivity tool. - vpackager: an automated system for compiling ad packaging VL packages from source code. - CUPS Printing System Requirements ============ It is recommended that your system meets these requirements: - Pentium 200 or better compatible processor (i586 and up). - minimum of 2GB of hard disk space for the entire system (less if you choose to install only certain packages), plus additional space for swap (virtual memory) and personal files. - 64 MB of memory as an absolute minimum - but 256 MB or more will greatly improve performance. - Suitable Video card and Monitor. - Standard mouse, keyboard, sound card, CDROM, etc. If you are ready to try VL Light it is free to download.