DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake • Hacker News Board

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Post by rglullis » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 11:44 PM UTC

chillingeffect wrote: post #68

scardine wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost 20 years ago I typed "rm /lib" instead of "rm lib" by mistake. Kernel panic messages started to flash on the terminal and I felt butterflies on my stomach. It was a huge (at the time) Sun machine, took more than 12h to restore it. That is why I avoid running as root.

lol, we should have a thread about famous typos. The other late evening, I typed "sudo pip uninstall pip" instead of "sudo pip uninstall pil" Not that bad, but i was on an outdated distro (13.04) and I couldn't apt-get pip back. :< It was time to move to 13.10 anyway.

what? `sudo apt-get install python-pip --reinstall` wouldn't work?

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Post by aeflash » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 12:27 AM UTC

guard-of-terra wrote: post #3

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.

Too bad nearly every page is broken on it (CSS wise). The only error it detected on my site was that newfangled declaration... The entire layout was jumbled.

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Post by zem » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 12:54 AM UTC

tomswartz07 wrote: post #30

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!

"tenets" (because you're likely pronouncing it wrong too)

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Post by marvy » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 12:58 AM UTC

jlarocco wrote: post #69

scardine wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost 20 years ago I typed "rm /lib" instead of "rm lib" by mistake. Kernel panic messages started to flash on the terminal and I felt butterflies on my stomach. It was a huge (at the time) Sun machine, took more than 12h to restore it. That is why I avoid running as root.

Using Linux or OSX on a modern single user computer, the separation between root and non-root makes very little sense. I don't care if I "rm -Rf /bin" because I can reinstall all of it in less than an hour. It's an inconvenience, but hardly the end of the world. On the other hand, "rm $HOME/*" would be a huge pain in the ass, potentially losing personal data that I can't just "apt-get install _____" back. It does mak…

that's what time machines are for

Re: DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake

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Post by e12e » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 10:32 AM UTC

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #4

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?

> Nice, I remember being shown DSL and being amazed someone could make an OS that small.

Obligatory mention, the QNX demo disk (1.44M floppy image with full gui):

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

While the floppy is justifiably dead, it is a little strange to see basic installs taking up so much space these days. Thankfully the core-os type projects (os for densly populated vm servers) are helping a bit -- even if deduplication/running root from /nfs etc -- is probably a more expedient (and permanent) way to reduce footprint per vm (1 Gig divided by 1024 vms is just 1Mb per vm after all...).