What is Damn Small Linux, a.k.a. DSL
Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:
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Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
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Boot from a USB pen drive
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Boot from within a host operating system (that’s right, it can run inside Windows)
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Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call “frugal install”
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Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
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Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
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Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
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Modularly grow – DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize
Changes for DSL 1.1:
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New boot time option “secure” will prompt for passwords for root & dsl
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New boot time option “protect” will prompt for an encryption password and then triple des encrypt the backup file
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New boot time option “host” to pass hostname. Use as boot: dsl host=web123
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Added webdata, a triple des secure backup/restore to remote ftp server
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lspci now display textual description from pci database
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Added button to emelfm “Add2Filetool” to easily select and add files to the filetool.lst. Works from CLI as well
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Updated word view, excel view, and powerpoint view to accept spaces in filenames – note only these MS utils will support this feature
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Corrected group bug in /usr/bin/rebuildfstab
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Changed typos in Getting Started
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Created work-around for the improper interactions of just a few programs with restarting xtdesk from within emelfm
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dsl-embedded upgraded to qemu-0.7
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