DSL

what is dsl damn small linux is a very versatile 50mb mini desktop oriented linux distribution damn small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things boot from a business card cd as a live linux distribution livecd boot from a usb pen drive boot from within a host operating system that s right it can run inside windows run very nicely from an ide compact flash drive via a method we call frugal install transform into a debian os with a traditional hard drive install run light enough to power a 486dx with 16mb of ram run fully in ram with as little as 128mb you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be modularly grow dsl is highly extendable without the need to customize dsl was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50mb live cd it was at first just a personal tool toy but over time damn small linux grew into a community project with hundreds of development hours put into refinements including a fully automated remote and local application installation system and a very versatile backup and restore system which may be used with any writable media including a hard drive a floppy drive or a usb device dsl has a nearly complete desktop and a tiny core of command line tools all applications are chosen with the best balance of functionality size and speed damn small also has the ability to act as an ssh ftp httpd server right off of a live cd in our quest to save space and have a fully functional desktop we ve made many gui administration tools which are fast yet still easy to use what does dsl have xmms mp3 cd music and mpeg ftp client dillo web browser netrik web browser firefox spreadsheet sylpheed email spellcheck us english a word processor ted three editors beaver vim and nano pico clone graphics editing and viewing xpaint and xzgv xpdf pdf viewer emelfm file manager naim aim icq irc vncviwer rdesktop ssh scp server and client dhcp client ppp pppoe adsl a web server calculator generic and ghostscript printer support nfs fluxbox and jwm window managers games system monitoring apps a host of command line tools usb support and pcmcia support some wireless support curious about who we are check out the contributors page 3 x supports application launching from limited icons application centric menu driven current 3 x version 3 4 12 screenshots 1 2 older screenshots 4 x supports drag n drop folder document centric many icons can be run menuless current 4 x version 4 4 10 screenshots 1 2 4 4rc2 0 1rc4 get the official damn small linux book where to go to from here applications see what we packed inside packages what dsl is made of download a list of various download sites notes our answer to a changelog off site links of interest elsewhere milestones dsl accomplishments faq have questions look here first wiki community knowledge forums real time community knowledge mini itx store mini computers and components dsl on a cd business card 80mm or full size dsl on usb pen bootable usb pen drives income guide independent developers should read this dsl at work doing things with dsl dsl market if you are buying anything at all use our links to fund the project donate where we ask for your help the wall of appreciation to those who help or scroll down for dsl goodies info please go to the user forum for tech questions dsl goodies to keep this project alive and funded we sell merchandise which we think the average geek will appreciate you may want to support us by buying dsl on a cd we sell them in full and mini sizes another great way to support our project is to buy a bootable usb pen which is capable of booting inside windows are you a gadget geek check out the dsl mini itx and small computer store also be sure to chech out our damn small machine other languages es it de ideas on fundraising