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Title: DSL, a different acronym - Damn Small Linux!
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 30, 2006, 03:46:00 PM
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

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DSL is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.

Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:

-Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)

-Boot from a USB pen drive

-Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)

-Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"

-Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install

-Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram

-Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)

-Modularly grow -- DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD...


8) Never heard of this before, but it was mentioned by Michael Robertson, founder of Linspire and now Ajax13, in the "Demo" video found here: http://www.myajaxos.com

Title: Re: DSL, a different acronym - Damn Small Linux!
Post by: Mr. Analog on May 30, 2006, 03:50:24 PM
Attack of IT TLA collision.
Title: Re: DSL, a different acronym - Damn Small Linux!
Post by: Darren Dirt on May 30, 2006, 04:06:25 PM
Yeah, one would think the industry could have gotten together to come up with a better hash algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function) ;)
Title: Re: DSL, a different acronym - Damn Small Linux!
Post by: Lazybones on May 30, 2006, 04:23:53 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on May 30, 2006, 03:50:24 PM
Attack of IT TLA collision.

You missed LAMP showing up in the month end meeting
Large Account Managment Process and there I was thinking Linux Appachy MySQL PHP