Vector Linux 5.8 SOHO

Vector Linux SOHO, as its name implies, is a Linux distribution aimed at Small Office and Home Office users. It is the standard edition of Vector Linux with a comprehensive KDE desktop environment that includes numerous pre-configured office, graphics, multimedia, package, and system configuration tools. Vector Linux SOHO is ideal for a modern workstation user who wants the latest, most comprehensive, and most powerful Linux software. To that end, the following applications are included and pre-configured for your convenience:

• KDE 3.5.6, a comprehensive, attractive, and friendly desktop environment.
• OpenOffice 2.2.0 productivity suite.
• Business applications for personal information, finances, and database work.
• Powerful web development tools.
• Graphics editors, from simple to advanced.
• Complete Internet applications pack, including Firefox 2.0.0.3, Seamonkey 1.1.1, and Opera web browsers.
• Multimedia and entertainment, for sound, music, video and web content streaming.
• Internet and local network connectivity tools.
• Support for peripherals including printers, scanners, digital cameras, fax/modems.
• VectorLinux's unique system administration and software management tools.

All the above comes with Vector Linux´s trademarks: good integration, lightness, speed, rapid install, bootup and shutdown times, and stability.

Vector Linux 5.8 SOHO also features:

• Custom Linux kernel 2.6.20.3 SMP, compiled with bootsplash, SquashFS, LZMA, and realtime patches.
• Kernel Module Configuration: module-init-tools 3.2.2
• Automatic hardware detection (udev 097)
• Reading/writing to NTFS-formatted media using FUSE and ntfs-3g.
• NVIDIA and ATI drivers are compiled for individual hardware on the spot to insure optimum performance.
• Updated wifi drivers, ndiswrapper, and madwifi.
• Window System: Xorg 6.9.0
• Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 1.0.11
• Office Applications: Vim 7.0
• Multimedia: VLC 0.8.6a, MPlayer 1.0rc1, The GIMP 2.2.14, Xara Xtreme 0.7, Amarok 1.4.5, Xine 1.1.2
• Mail/IM: Gaim 2.0.0beta6
• CD/DVD Burning: cdrtools 2.01, K3b 1.0.1
• Server/Client: DB 4.2.52, iptables 1.3.5, OpenSSH 4.4p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8d
• Development: GCC 3.4.6, glibc 2.3.6, PERL 5.8.8, PHP 5.2.2, Python 2.4.3, Qt-X11 3.3.7, Gtk+ 2.8.20
• Printing Services: Samba 3.0.23c, CUPS 1.2.10 with hpijs drivers for HP printers, and gutenprint drivers for many other popular printers