AlbertPacino
Forerunner
Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:
- Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
- Boot from a USB pen drive
- Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
- Run very 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
Changes for DSL 1.1:
- New boot time option "secure" will prompt for passwords for root & dsl
- New boot time option "protect" will prompt for an encryption password and then triple des encrypt the backup file
- New boot time option "host" to pass hostname. Use as boot: dsl host=web123
- Added webdata, a triple des secure backup/restore to remote ftp server
- lspci now display textual description from pci database
- Added button to emelfm "Add2Filetool" to easily select and add files to the filetool.lst. Works from CLI as well
- Updated word view, excel view, and powerpoint view to accept spaces in filenames -- note only these MS utils will support this feature
- Corrected group bug in /usr/bin/rebuildfstab
- Changed typos in Getting Started
- Created work-around for the improper interactions of just a few programs with restarting xtdesk from within emelfm
- dsl-embedded upgraded to qemu-0.7
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