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DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's graded low prio: http://www.dillo.org/Plans.html

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Nice, 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.

I remember running a QNX demo off a single floppy on a 66MHz 486. Included a web browser, a game ,and an editor, all in 1.44MB

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Nice, 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?

If you're into small but very functional OSs, also take a look at MenuetOS: http://www.menuetos.net/

Not a *nix-like but has a ton of functionality in the space of a single floppy.

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Nice, 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?

> > 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? +1 to this remark, currently unanswered. Is the "NEVER RUN AS ROOT!" mantra from modern Linux practices, or has it been that way since the mid-90s? After nearly four years of using Fedoras, I'm getting better about remembering what operations require root privileges, but I'll still grumble every time I have to enter the root password to do something as trivial as mounting a flash drive on someone else's computer. (I can't remember, offhand, where that setting is/what it's called that lets normal users mount drives)

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Dillo 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.

Wow. On FC20, Dillo is 1.4M installed. Chrome 37 is about 200M.

Dillo looks to be a more interesting way to test websites' graceful fallbacks than hacking up Chrome or Firefox's settings.

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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I cannot even think of how many security vulnerabilities exists in these applications used for this "remake".

To quote the DSLR's author Very often, new versions of applications are heavier than older ones (Wirth's Law). If the old version already solves the problem ... without any compromise in security or stability, why make the switch [to a bloated new version]?

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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I greatly appreciate the fact that one of the tenents of the project is documentation.

More often than not, the vast majority of these awesome little projects flounder under the lack of documentation.

Making it available (and well done) allows for anyone to just jump in and help.

Kudos!

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