Damn Small Linux Returns After 16 Years Of Silence

31 thoughts on “Damn Small Linux Returns After 16 Years Of Silence”

• Oh so basically emacs..

• The most interesting thing in this distro is the programs they install. These programs are much better designed than what people call modern applications. Spotify is genocide.

• MPV is like Vim; it doesn't work as a media player out of the box, and it's a pain to configure.

• I once spent a month installing DSL with Netscape web browser onto 230 Wyse thin clients for a military information display system. DSL was chosen because it would fit on the 64Mb flash drive in the clients.
  After unboxing, flashing the OS, labeling, soak testing and reboxing, the three pallets worth of clients were sent up to the Scottish Air Traffic Control Center for installation.

• Nice to see this return. I used the original a few years back to assist with setting up Puppy 4.30 on an ancient Dell Optiplex, used for archiving stuff from floppy disks. Puppy would grab the swap partition like .. ahem .. a dog with a bone (only 64MB of RAM installed!).

  I'd install it just for the included Pac-Man and Space Invaders! Here comes a new VM …

• use l3afpad instead of leafpad

• I’ve yet to find a lightweight distro that looks good

• mtPaint is a very nice tool. It's my go-to for working with paletted images.

• kolibri os does this on a single floppy. (not linux and very limited driver support but it it fully asm)

• The maintainer of the distro could make a simple script to display man pages from an online source in the terminal. He could even use the one that Ubuntu already has call dman. It pulls man pages from the Ubuntu Manpage Repo and displays them in the terminal. (At least I think that's what it does.) He could alias this for man in bash and it would make it seamless to the user. I wrote a similar but more simplistic script for Arch to pull manpages from the Arch Manpage Repo.

• Rad, I had just been fiddling around with AntiX a couple weeks ago and loved it, but was having issues with sound on the two computers I tried it on.
  This looks like exactly what I was looking for. I can't wait to try it out.

• I NEED things like the Debian netinstall ISO because I have like 200 raw CDs just laying around and often find I have PCs that won't boot from USB.

• Thanks for alerting me to this distro =]

• Hah, mutt: it doesn't have bugs, it has fleas!

• I remember puppy Linux! The word processor situation never bothered me; I just use vi+LaTeX to write pdfs.

• Can i install Xanmod Kernel and Flatpaks on DSL?

• It should do what another OD did (maybe even the original DSL). You would type man _ and it eould just open up a URL to that manpage in the browser.

  I think it was old DSL, because I seem to remmeber it opening in Dillo.

• They should add Simon Tathams puzzles. It's rather small but has a bunch of games that were originally on Palm OS.

  It's very interesting how it works in Linux. You rename (or create a symlink for) the file to load a different game.

• If I remember correctly, mtpaint has one very nice feature: it can edit those old text-mode graphics that would show on boot. It's a weird format that is basically just numbers, whcih then get displayed as pixels.

  I used it to modify the boot screen on my mom's laptop to be our dog.

• 8:37 "I don't like nano. Nano scares me"

  Did Benno Schulenberg insult you? Just read the nanorc file! GNU nano is a wonderful text editor.

• Still twice the size of 9front. Which has man (and doc) and src (and /dist/plan9front, the entire git history).

• One disk? Try QNX …
  And I am speaking of a floppy disk;)
  (Just joking, it's commercial, capable of real time embedded and a demo. But an impressive demo. Search for it;) )

• DSL was one of my first Linux distros. What a throwback!

• Fuck MPV.
  All my VLC enjoyer homies hate MPV.
  And we mock MPV fans for fun.

• Mtpaint is great, i still use it today after finding it from damn small linux back in 2007. Its much easier to use than something like gimp, and it does everything i need for the small amount of image editing i do. I used it even on windows, as it can do lot of things that ms paint can't. And its very lightweight. Today its UI is exactly the same it was in 2007, but thats the way i like it.

• 50 MB vs 700 MB … what happened with DSL? It’s not DS anymore …

  Also: Removing documentation but adding multiple browsers and games is a good idea?

• I remember using DSL way back in the day when it was still 50mb. I had it on a 128mb pen drive with some emulation tools baked in so that I could plug it into a windows box, and use linux without restarting

• What's that adorable wallpaper?

• Conky, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

• Debian netinstall is a 629MB ISO though 🙂
  Used it forever.

• Back in the day I had a separate linux box with all my mp3's and ran XMMS remotely through x forwarding and x on cygwin. Setting up a share and running winamp probably would have been the better option. Maybe. :p

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