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                                                                            Vector Linux

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                                                                            Vector Linux Facts:
                                                                            • Comes with KDE desktop
                                                                            • Runs Opera "out of the box" (this was huge for me!)
                                                                            • Vector Linux is based on Slackware, the oldest distro still in use and available.

                                                                            What I liked:
                                                                            • Opera was already there, ready to go, which was great for this newb!
                                                                            • Seamonkey was also installed, which I like reasonably well (it's a Mozilla project, like Firefox and Galeon)
                                                                            • There is multimedia support for iPods and such.

                                                                            What I didn't like:
                                                                            • I tried to install it to hard drive (I liked it that much) but I felt that the install process was a newbie nightmare with the partitioning and such
                                                                            • The installation froze up and refused to boot again, except from the Live CD

                                                                            Summary:
                                                                            I really wish I had been able to install this OS; however, it was not all that newbie friendly and it did freeze up on install, so I have to give this one a C-
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