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Archive for February 21st, 2008

Vector Linux 5.9: Light, fast Slackware-based distro

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Introduction
Vector Linux 5.9, released in late December of last year, is a Slackware 12.0-based distribution that uses Xfce 4.4.2 as its default user interface (”UI”). Generally speaking, Xfce requires less horsepower than other UIs, like GNOME and KDE, and so Vector Linux (”VL” for short) bills itself as an excellent operating system to install on [...]

Firefox 3 Beta: Good Enough Now and Getting Better

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

 
Don’t look now, but the third volley in the second browser war is about to be fired, and it’s packing an impressive payload. Mozilla, the folks developing the Firefox Web browser, last week released a new test version. It’s the third beta of Firefox 3.0, and it’s solid enough that it could become your [...]

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