Nice news. DSL is back.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2024
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Ran this on a Celeron/128MB RAM in the mid-2000s, always nice to have a flavor to run on incompetent and legacy hardware.
Oh hey, I was thinking about DSL recently and was bummed that it'd been discontinued for so long. It was my first Linux distro, downloaded over the course of I think a day and a half over rural dial-up. I moved to Ubuntu once I was able to get blazing fast 1.5 Mbps "broadband" but DSL still holds a special place in my heart. Going antiX-based was probably a good move to make it a bit more manageable, and while I downloaded it originally because it was 50MB I agree that it's probably more realistic that people will download it with a connection much faster than dial-up, and the hard cap on a CD-sized image is I think a good compromise. It's still, as the name says, damn small, at least by modern OS standards.
Isn't OpenWRT the true damn small Linux?
Since OpenWrt is just Buildroot with networking libraries and a package manager, I would say Buildroot itself would be an even smaller Linux. Whether it's been condemned to eternal torment is another matter entirely, though, lol
Sa-lute!
Very cool. I hope they get some minimal Wayland stack soon.
What is it that makes a distro ISO so small? Or maybe a better way of putting it: How come a Linux ISO can be multiple gigabytes in size?
It would be cool of I could use apt
From the announcement on the site:
Unlike the original DSL, this version has apt fully enabled
70MBi is damn small?
Small enough to fit on a CD, which isn't everyone's definition of "small." There are, of course, much smaller Linux distros, less than a tenth the size; particularly if CLI is adequate.
I mean they should just remove "damn" from the name then