Hi,

I'm a newbie to linux. Just starting to get my head around the different Distros and GUI's.

I'm just wondering if Vector has it's own GUI?

Thanks

Own gui?

I have used Vector, and beside it's curses setup program it used KDE.

Oh, OK. Like I said, I'm new to Linux. Thanks.

Hi,
No problem. Vector is a very nice distro. The latest release is even better and you have a choice
of several GUI,(Freerock Gnome is quite nice) even the latest Enlightenment (with quite a lot of tinkering, though). I am a supporter
of this little distro, it is the fastest in terms of performance out there (for a non-source distro) and has
Slackware's stability.
Have a look at that article :
http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=4966
Go for it !
Regards

For a newbie, I highly recommend vector. The installer is not as graphical as some of the more mainstream distros, but it's lightweight, quick and pretty easy.
Also, their user forums are very responsive and helpful.
The SOHO 5 release is extremely good for a newbie who's looking for a good OS and isn't using the latest and greatest hardware.

I DONT recommend Vector to a newbie, unless you have slightly dated hardware and want to use it to its maximum potential. Don't get me wrong, but a distro like SUSE or Mandriva will be better for you at this stage ....

I think Vector is really well suited to the right kind of newbie. It's really easy to get it going, but it's also very easy to start customizing and adapting, which is a great way to learn linux.

hmm... at one point some people may be right in saying that it is not good for newbie maybe because of the installation process. it is not that gui unlike mandriva/mandrake or redhat where even if the newbie has a slight idea of linux he/she can install it readily.

however, i can still suggest this for a person who has an old pc, or one who is bored of MS, or one who has a limited disk space. this is a very fast and unbloated distro.you can easily work your way around once it is installed. and talk about the guis once it's up and running. What windowmanager do you want? this distro includes most of the popular one.

for newbies, it is really difficult to know which distro you will like. i search alot in the internet to know what should i use iread the pros and cons of the bigwigs (fedore, mandriva, slackware, ubuntu, gentoo, live distros, etc). and it boils down to: "linux has so many flavors and many packages to suit everybody". but i'll take the suggestion of a webpage i saw that states that if you really want to learn linux by heart, stick to a distro, through good times and bad times, learn about it through forums and manuals so that you will master it, then you can change distros to differentiate things.

after searching high and low, i'll stick with vectorlinux. for personal reasons including "i dont want to spend thousands for royalties". i have laptop only 15GB and 128MB RAM. i have to learn a proprietary software that runs only through MS Windows. but i really like to learn linux, vim, c++... doing the math, 6.5GB (Windows XP) + 4GB (my documents) and the rest for linux...and with my memory?most of the bigwigs will crawl with it...

so here comes the fastest and smallest linux distro.problem solved!

thanks vectorlinux!

VC was the first Linux that I used where everything "worked". Previously, I had used Mandrake, Red Hat and originally got my feet wet with Caldera Linux (oh yeah). After a short time, I started to wonder why, since VC is basically Slackware, an I not running Slackware? So now I am 100% Slackware (I run only servers). I have tried a dozen other "new" distros in the last several years, but I keep coming back to Slackware. I should mention that I have worked on Unix systems since the early 80's, so Slackware simplicity suites me fine. Nevertheless, I highly recommended VC to any newbie interested in learning more about Linux than just figuring out which button to click on to make things work. VC does have a forum where you can look for help, but IMHO there are few people on that forum who are really interested in helping with "newbie-like questions". Slackware users frequent on alt.os.linux.slackware where you will probably find some of the most knowledgable Linux users (and yes, they do know that) that can be found anywhere. If you are prone to asking dumb questions, though, it help to be thick-skinned on that usegroup! VC users often show up there for answers to their not-VC specific questions, and often get help