Damn Small Linux
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Damn Small Linux is an operating system that is only 50 MB in size but provides most of the options you will need to run Linux on any machine, thumbdrive or flash drive. There may come a time when you need to configure your own icons on the desktop. Damn Small Linux is one of our favourite distribution due to its capability to run on very old PC as 386/486/Pentium with very few hardware resources. This version has updated some features as Monkey Webserver 0.9.2 and is incredibly stable. Damn Small Linux is one route; a cousin is puppy. This was the only distro that would boot off the PCMCIA-CD-ROM and not forget that the CD-ROM was out there after booting the kernel.
Damn Small Linux is perfect for smaller USB flash drives and will fit on portable devices as small as 64MB making for a great compact linux environment. Damn Small Linux was created by John Andrews of damnsmalllinux.org and is a trimmed down version of Knoppix, making it perfect for smaller drives. Damn Small Linux is modular so it can be as customizable as you want it to be. Damn Small Linux is not as complete as Knoppix, but, no one in their right mind could expect it to be. It’s a teeny tiny distribution. Damn small linux is a different distribution of linux that uses a very small amount of disk space and low resources. It is about a 50MB download vs the 600+MB for Ubuntu.
Damn Small Linux is a powerful and versatile yet extremely small Linux distribution with a lot of potential. This distribution provides an avenue of freedom to those who have been limited by size and age of their computers as Damn Small Linux works extremely well on older hardware. Damn Small Linux is certainly small, but it has a bizarre GUI and is hard to learn. Slax has a weird model for saving your files and options using an online memory space that is probably not secure, and a trap set by someone hoping to harvest your bank passwords. DSL has a nearly complete desktop, and many command line tools. All applications are chosen with functionality, size and speed in mind. DSL has crammed sufficient amount of pre-installed open source programs inside the live CD. It includes useful applications like MP3/MPEG player, FTP client, web browser, games, spreadsheet, word-processor, text-editor, .pdf reader, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, web server, and calculator just to name some.
Damn Small Linux is tiny Linux distribution that John Andrews originally created in 2002 to see just how many applications could fit into a 50MB system. The project has grown over the years to include many other contributors working on hundreds of packages and applications. Damn Small Linux is damn small because it does not include some of the secondary features found in other, much larger versions of Linux. For example, while Damn Small Linux offers about two dozen options to the ls command, other versions offer more than twice the options.
Damn Small Linux is a very interesting project and it brings an entirely new way to use Linux. If you’re always on the move DSL is made for you, may it be in your USB key, as an embedded operating system running under Linux or Windows, or even as a business card Live CD that you carry around within your wallet.
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