Damn Small Linux (or DSL for short) is a really small Linux distribution (no larger than a 50 MB ISO), intended to be able to run on the older systems with limited resources. It can run on small storage devices such as bootable business card, 64 MB USB flash drive, CompactFlash card (by using an IDE connector) or ZIP drive.
On the road to a 4.0 version, the DSL v3.4 version is now ready to hit the machines. According to the developer taking care of this distro, the 3.4 version always loads into the RAM memory, therefore you could add at the hardware requirements section at least 128MB. This is a result of the fact that the dsl-3.4-initrd.iso version has the KNOPPIX image packed in the initial ramdisk, which also implies an easier PXE DSL Server setup.
Highlights:
- updated MurgaLua to v0.4.1
- added libXft.so.2
- added acpid
- added bcrypt. Dropped des
- improved emelfm for better CLI support
- fixed user umount Debian Woody bug.
- updated webdata to use bcrypt
- updated file backup/restore to use bcrypt via “protect” boot option.
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