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Damn Small Linux Not So Small
An anonymous reader writes "According to DistroWatch, Damn Small Linux (DSL) is currently the most popular microLinux distribution. Linux.com (Also owned by VA) takes a look at why this might be the case, and how you can best take advantage of it. From the article: 'What began as a toy project to stuff the maximum software inside a 50MB ISO file has matured into a refined community project known for its speed and versatility. DSL includes the ultra-lightweight FluxBox window manager, two Web browsers, Slypheed email client and news reader, xpdf PDF viewer, XMMS with MPEG media file support for playing audio and video, BashBurn CD burner, XPaint image editing, VNCViewer and rdesktop to control Windows and Linux desktops remotely, and more. If they could do all this in 50 megs, imagine what they could do in more space. Last month the DSL developers released DSL-Not, a.k.a. DSL-N 0.1 RC1. It's 83.5MB of DSL coated with GTK sugar. Yummy!'"
DSL is already taken, so DSL is pretty confusing. Does ADSL stand for Absolutely Damn Small Linux?
Engineering is the art of compromise.
NetBSD is great for older systems that wont modern software.
Agreed - installing NetBSD is a great way to ensure your system won't run any modern software.
Seriously, your post was the lamest attempt at advocacy I've ever seen. Where's the link to the NetBSD live-CD that fits in the same space as DSL, supports all the same hardware and has equivalent apps? If it doesn't exist, the only conclusion one can draw is that you're a fucking time waster. And let's face it - it doesn't.
Kde seems a little faster but perhaps its my imagination.
I expect so - in my experience NetBSD advocates have wonderful imaginations. I'm particularly thinking of the guy on OSNews who claimed he was running the Nvidia Linux drivers on NetBSD under binary emulation and getting 30% higher frame rates for Quake 4. Classic.