[COLUG] looking for some basic introductory information on linux/Damn Small Linux 3.2

[Cramer, John]

FYI-Damn Small Linux 3.2
Posted by Philipp on: 2007-01-18 14:05:51 Damn Small Linux 3.2 has been
released

DSL is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.

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

Final Change log:
* Updated murgaLua to v0.3
* Updated sqlite to v3.3.10
* Updated madwifi-ng modules.
* Updated Broadcomm 10/100 module b44.o
* Updated busybox with >2GB file support.
* New Cron - A perl cron, with new boot option 'cron' and toggle from
control panel.
* Added wpasupplicant for wireless security.
* New Mouse Config Lua GUI.
* Added default tone generator for XMMS.
* Added Resolution Selection to Rdesktop.lua
* New boot option "checkfs". Usage: dsl 2 checkfs - for frugals: dsl 2
toram checkfs
* Simplified MyDSL structure using the level 1 default autoscanned
/mydsl directory or user specified level one directory which contains
extensions, and optionally the 'optional' subdirectory and/or a
'modules' subdirectory. Dropped now unneeded 'modules' boot time option
and support for extensions at level 1.
* New mkmydsl - Simplified Custom iso maker now even easier than before
and supports new MyDSL layout and works for both isolinux and syslinux
CD versions. Also supports booting with toram or not. On low resource
machines boot with: dsl base norestore mydsl{=hdXY{/dirname}}
* Updated MyDSL to support direct downloading to all supported and
mounted drives/directories.
* Improved MyDSL download via the Lua GUI - implemented server side
parsing.
* Added volume setting to persist via .umix
* New allow boot option desktop=xxx to override backup.
* New alsa.unc and automated Alsa sound card detection.
* New dsl-dpkg.unc and adjustments to core.
* dsl2unc conversion script.
* Added default Netscape to call Firefox
* Added a default .desktop to /etc/skel for better hard drive support.
* Updated xsetup.sh to add .xserverrc to /etc/skel for better hard drive
support.
* Fixed bad default X & Y for Aterm.lnk
* Fixed hard drive install permmision problem on /opt/.mydsl_dir
* For hard drive installs, perform regenerate ld.so.cache and
modules.dep only upon first boot.
* Updated "Getting Started" with the new MyDSL simplified directory
structure.
* Updated Qemu to 0.8.2, dropped 60MB virtual hard drive, Added qemu-img
- read the new readme.txt!
* New dsl-pendrive.bat for Qemu to detect booted pendrive.
* Dropped Synaptic & Enable Apt from menus - use Synaptic and dsl-dpkg
extensions.
* Dropped Update to GNU Utils from menu - use gnu-itils.unc or
gnu-utils.dsl.
* Fixed Emelfm Superuser from menu. 

==jcramer

-----Original Message-----
From: colug432-bounces at colug.net [mailto:colug432-bounces at colug.net] 
On Behalf Of Larry W. Virden [lvirden at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:35 PM
To: colug432 at colug.net
Subject: [COLUG] looking for some basic introductory information on
linux

I have a son trying to build his first linux system. He has an old
gateway desktop computer with 128 meg of memory in it. When he tries to
install ubuntu, it doesn't make it through. He suspects there isn't
enough memory in the machine for it to be able to install.

So where can I find a version of Linux that would install on such a
small machine? He would add memory, but it can only hold another 128
meg, and the local stores have been saying they don't carry such small
memory any longer.

Also, once he gets linux onto the desktop, what are some recommendations
for low cost internet, so he can get online and get updated
applications, send email, etc.?

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