The SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) Edition is designed for modern computers and is based on the KDE desktop environment.

Standard Edition is a freely downloadable distribution based on Xfce and specifically designed for use on older computers with slower processors and less RAM.

VasmCC stands for 'Vector Administrative and Services Menu Control Center', and it configures everything from disk partitions to X.Org Server.

VasmCC has been available since Vector 2.0 was released and has been upgraded continually over the years, with the addition of GUI functionality in SOHO 3.2.

Combined with lzma-compression and dependency tracking, the inclusion of Gslapt offers VectorLinux users the ability to quickly install and remove software while avoiding so-called 'dependency hell.'

File compression via lzma allows low and high bandwidth users alike to minimize download times.

Two graphical frontends have been written for slapt-get, the backwards-compatible dependency-tracking extension to Slackware's package tools used by VectorLinux.

These deficiencies have stimulated significant volunteer and developer response, and many desired software packages have now entered the Vector repository.