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Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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when i visit the site, it says the the account is suspended. anyone else experiences the same problem or is it just me?

Same here. Worked earlier, so I assume it was just the deluge of bandwidth consumption from news interest.

ah it's the classic hn hug of death. thanks for the answer.

Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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Interesting fact is that DSL used to be 50MB because that’s how big a business-card sized CDs were. And yes, there used to be business-card sized CDs.

Wow, I completely forgot about this! You just teleported me back in time for a minute there. For anyone else interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card

What an unfortunate acronym...

Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Only 2.2.26 kernel tho so that's very dated The whole thing is dated; that looks like more of a retrocomputing project (mostly) than an updated version. I mean, busybox 1.00 is probably fine for what it is, but it's not exactly new. (Note that this is a clarification but not a criticism; having played with things like "how old of a distro can I shove in docker and run on a current kernel", I certainly support retro…

It would be rather difficult to fit any newer linux kernel onto a floppy, together with all the other software.

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Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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post #35

Interesting fact is that DSL used to be 50MB because that’s how big a business-card sized CDs were. And yes, there used to be business-card sized CDs.

Wow, I completely forgot about this! You just teleported me back in time for a minute there. For anyone else interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card

I remember an Energizer battery game coming on one of these disks - the only time I'd ever seen one.

Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

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> DSL 2024 currently only ships with two window managers: Fluxbox and JWM. Both are lightweight, fairly intuitive, and easy to use. I wonder what they will move to once they have to start using Wayland. Is there a lightweight, user-friend, and stable compositor ? (My experience is that you can choose two, but not three).

If I had to wager a guess, probably something like labwc would end up in that role for a distro of DSL's scope and philosophy. However, I think we're still a while away from that, and for the targeted machines, X is still completely fine and will remain so for a long while.
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