Saturday, June 14, 2008

Damn Small Linux!



Damn Small Linux was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD. It was at first just a personal tool/toy. But over time Damn Small Linux grew into a community project with hundreds of development hours put into refinements including a fully automated remote and local application installation system and a very versatile backup and restore system which may be used with any writable media including a hard drive, a floppy drive, or a USB device.

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


What New and Change of DSL 4.0:
-- Upgraded kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.4.31.
-- Created new support modules: cloop, unionfs, ndiswrapper, fuse, and madwifi in support of kernel change.
-- Changed icon/file manager to dfm for drag-n-drop capability.
-- Updated murgaLua to v0.5.5
-- Updated nano-tiny to v2.0.6.
-- Updated Xpdf to v3.0.2
-- Updated flrun.lua to v1.1.2
-- Updated "Getting Started" to reflect the many changes implemented in 4.0.
-- New dfmext.lua GUI tool for dfm associations.
-- New xtar.lua. A new GUI to view,extract or process as a MyDSL extension various tar files.
-- New netcardconf.lua. A new GUI to configure netcards, relaces dialog version.
-- New printing.lua, called from the printer icon, provides "intelligent icon" to handle all printing needs, from setup, start, stop, or print, -- double-click or drag-n-drop.
-- New add2filetool.lua, add2Xfiletool.lua, add2bootlocal.lua provides smooth interface for these tasks, double-click or drag-n-drop
-- New switcher.lua GUI to switch WM, jwm, fluxbox, or swm
-- Added sudo to myprism2, myndis, myiwconfig so they can be run from home by double clicking associated icons.
-- New automatic update of etc.ld.cache for better support of uci extensions.
-- Updated frugal_grub install to prompt for MyDSL, boot options, and langauge options.
-- Added 'checkfs' option to grub menu for frugal grub installations.
-- Fixed non-critical bug in dsl-config concerning hard drive installations.
-- Added dsl 3 runlevel for multiple user dsl consoles.
-- Fixed bug in iwconfig-setup
-- Updated fluxbox menus to use system default font (helvetica).
-- Added vim link.
-- Patched knoppix-autoconfig to correct language issues.
-- Updated minirt24.gz waitusb function.
-- Fixed cloop error on traditional hard drive installations.
-- New pendrive usbhdd installation script now uses grub with DSL on 2nd small partition and prompt for boot options.
-- Removed pendrive usbzip install script, syslinux and mtools.
-- Added taskbar buttons & click to focus in .jwmrc
-- Added emelfm - dropped mc
-- Created new Standard Boot floppy & PCMCIA modules floppy.
-- Updated getman/man url
-- Updated .torsmo_ip to fetch ethernet device from /proc
-- Updated functions5.lua
-- Updated DSLpanel Backgrounds calls dfm background option
-- Update mydslDownload.lua
-- Factored out .jwmrc-tray for better user control of tray icon choices.
-- Restored busybox link to provide rpm2cpio.
-- Added gettime.lua to jwm and fluxbox menus.
-- Added dfmext GUI, add2bootlocal, add2filetool, and add2Xfiletool to jwm and fluxbox menus.
-- Added libm.so link

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