Sounds like a fun project.
DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake
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Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake
#12"...comes pre-loaded with many useful applications and breaths* new life into..." *Grammar Nazi alert - breathes
There are a few other mistakes (okay, at least one; I'm not enough of a grammar nazi to have counted them).
Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake
#13No policy statement on systemd? :) http://alpinelinux.org/ is another minimal appliance distro.
Yes Alpine is a nice distro that also uses Musl. Good way to try out Musl libc if you haven't yet.
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#14Nice, I remember being shown DSL and being amazed someone could make an OS that small. > DSLR's approach to security is different . It is possible to run as root without causing a global disaster. Is there any more information available on how this is achieved?
uLinux or picoLinux (I don't remember very well the name) -> Runs on one or two 3.5 floppies. There is a version with 3 or 4 floppies with an X-Windows included.
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#15How does the power efficiency of DSLR compare to Ubuntu? Would I get longer battery life?
I somehow doubt it. Sure, there's a lot less stuff running, so there are fewer wakeups. But on the other hand, it's missing some essential power-saving software like `acpid` that tells bits of hardware to take a rest in the first place.
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#16I cannot even think of how many security vulnerabilities exists in these applications used for this "remake".
Mentioning one of these things you can't even think of would be useful. For example: I've used Ted for years; it's great.
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#17Dillo is so awesome! I urge you to apt-get install dillo The forgotten feeling when computers responded immediately . I guess I'll be using it for some web.
Dillo also has an easy, approachable plugin architecture: http://www.dillo.org/dpi1.html This makes me feed sorry for the people dealing with the XUI/JS/CSS cesspit of Firefox plugins.
Do they plan to add a JavaScript engine?
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#18The small Linux distributions are an interesting alternate universe. Very hobbyist in some respects, as often it's mostly repackaging standard distro stuff, getting older software to compile, writing simple GUI scripts -- not exactly developing a semi-embedded Linux subset with state of the art tools. Very hackish. And I mean that in a good way…
Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake
#19Nice, I remember being shown DSL and being amazed someone could make an OS that small. > DSLR's approach to security is different . It is possible to run as root without causing a global disaster. Is there any more information available on how this is achieved?
uLinux or picoLinux (I don't remember very well the name) -> Runs on one or two 3.5 floppies. There is a version with 3 or 4 floppies with an X-Windows included.
What's a floppy? Is it as small as an SD card?
Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake
#20Dillo is so awesome! I urge you to apt-get install dillo The forgotten feeling when computers responded immediately . I guess I'll be using it for some web.
Dillo also has an easy, approachable plugin architecture: http://www.dillo.org/dpi1.html This makes me feed sorry for the people dealing with the XUI/JS/CSS cesspit of Firefox plugins.
Dillo plugins use CSS (see the download manager source) and Firefox addons can use HTML instead of XUL (see the add-on SDK).