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O'Reilly Broadcast blogger Caitlyn Martin reports: After stripping away the marketing hype the net result is that SOHO is once again free.

I also have to wonder if there was some push back from the community when SOHO, which was free for download when version 5.8 was current, was moved to a paid-only status.

O'Reilly Broadcast reported Caitlyn Martin writes about a new partnership between Vector Linux and SQI to provide the infrastructure for both paid support and the wider user community.

She also describes why Linux makes sense for small business and how the partnership makes Vector Linux an attractive choice for those businesses.

An anonymous reader writes with a link to Caitlyn Martin's review of the Slackware-based Vector Linux SOHO 5.9 Deluxe: "I've read past reviews by other reviewers describing Vector Linux as 'better Slackware than Slackware' or 'what Slackware should be' and I always felt that was a bit of a stretch.

With this release it isn't a stretch.

O'Reilly News reporter Caitlyn Martin takes an in depth look at the latest offering from the Canadian Linux distribution Vector Linux.

She calls 5.9 SOHO their most polished release to date, offering the stability of Slackware, superior performance, and the conveniences of bigger, more popular distros.

O'Reilly News reporter Caitlyn Martin provides an in depth review of Slackware 12.1. In her view Slackware has a well earned reputation for reliability, stability, and performance.

It may also be the least user friendly major Linux distribution on the planet short of building Linux From Scratch.

Entropy blogger Caitlyn Martin gives her impressions of Slackware 12.1 after two installations and a week running the new version.

Her conclusions: Slackware is still Slackware. It's incredibly flexible, fast and rock solid but terribly user unfriendly.

She can only recommend it to experienced users who know what they are getting into.

The failure of two computers forced Entropy blogger Caitlyn Martin to do more with less with some old hardware in the interim.

She tried Vector Linux Light 5,. Beta 5 and writes about advances in green computing she found. Most impressive: VL-Hot, a HAL replacement which doesn't poll the hardware, working with LXDE, a new lightweight desktop.

O'Reilly Linux blogger Caitlyn Martin looks at an article claiming that Linux has outgrown its stereotypes and is now easy to use.

She doesn't question the facts in the article but sees it as "preaching to the proverbial choir". She then lays out two scenarios which could lead to wider acceptance of Linux in the home and on the office desktop.

O'Reilly Linux blogger Caitlyn Martin offers an in depth review of the latest version of Vector Linux. She reports that the changes since 5.8 are like "day and night" and details the new tools and features of this release.

She does say that Vector Linux still isn't for everyone and that newcomers to Linux may find it challenging.