Damn Small Linux version 2.2

 

DSL is a LiveCD that is also installable onto a hard drive or a USB pen drive. Even though it is one of the smallest-footprint Linux OSes available, it is a fully functional system consisting of a graphical interface featuring the Fluxbox window manager, along with many useful applications, utilities, and tools Standard features in DSL include: Kernel 2.4.26

 

The distro is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:

Boot from a business card CD as a LiveCD, Boot from a USB pen drive, Boot from within a host operating system (it can run "inside" Windows), Run 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 50 MB LiveCD

Fluxbox desktop, 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 versatile backup and restore system which may be used with any writable media including a hard drive, a floppy drive, or a USB device.  Interestingly, the distribution also has the ability to act as an SSH/FTP/HTTPD server right off a LiveCD

 

SOME OTHER FEATURES INCLUDE:

 

XMMS 1.2.8 (MP3 and MPEG),  Firefox 1.0.6,  Spreadsheet,  Email client,  Spellchecker (US English),  Word processor,  Three text editors (Nedit, nVi, Zile [emacs clone]).    The distro also includes Xpdf, Worker (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE, a web server, calculator, system monitoring apps, and USB support

(DSL)

Damn Small Linux

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