Through DistroWatch I just found out that the mini-distro is back Damn Small Linux, for lovers of minimalism.
Almost 4 years have passed since the last stable version Yesterday John Andrews announced the availability of version 4.11 release candidate.
DSL is able to efficiently accomplish the following:
- Boot from a card format CD to a separate environment from your hard drive.
- Boot from a USB stick.
- Booting * into * a host OS (for example, it can be booted into Windows).
- Running seamlessly from a Compact Flash IDE card using a method we call "frugal installation."
- Transform to a traditional Debian distribution after installing on a hard drive.
- Keep a 486DX running acceptably fast with 16MB of RAM.
- Running full from memory in as little as 128MB (you'll be amazed at how fast your computer really is!).
- Grow modularly - DSL is highly extensible without the need for customization.
As I have read, Puppy Linux It is light but it does not start on a 486 machine, personally I think those machines are no longer used, so I do not know if that point is really an advantage.
For those who want to try it:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html
regards
it's a great distro, along with slitaz they are my favorites
I agree on both. The two smallest distros that I like. Third would put Puppy.
SliTaz !! +1
Looking at the forums, a discussion between John Andrews and Robert Shingledecker (and the latter's departure) caused the project to stall.
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-ST/f-4/t-20537.1.html
The first distro I use, how many memories, it's good that I come back is highly recommended!
It is a great and excellent distro !! I recommend it
"Transform to a traditional Debian distribution after installing on a hard drive."
That sounds interesting.
It was also one of my first distros, I had it installed on a 6 mhz K2-400, in a time of extreme poverty haha, a totally recommended classic
I'm already lowering it.
It was also one of my first distros and for a while I had it in a pen to have a rescue system
In the part where you say "Start from a Card format CD… »The first thing that came to mind was esto y this other
xDDD
I'm waiting for them to let me install one of these distros to the old computer at home. I'm between this and Slitaz
I have an old machine to which I installed puppy linux and it went very well but I have never tried this distro, we will see how it goes with this one.
It would really be very good to see DSL again in the Cuban scene, I haven't seen that for a long time except in FLISOL, where one always wears almost all the "crown jewels."