[wplug-erie] New Damn Small Linux 0.6

Just Bill bill at justbill.org
Wed Apr 14 19:04:26 EDT 2004


I would love a copy if you have it on one of those samll CD's which I
think it's supposed to fit on.  Let me know.  I would love a copy of
everything to be honest with you.  I love installing Linux, all forms. 
Its become a pastime hobby.  

Bill
www.justbill.org


On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 16:28, Michael S. Burlingame wrote:
> The newest addition to the single cd linux collection is Damn Small Linux.
> It is a nice knoppix based bootable business card cd distro.  I downloaded
> it today and it is light and fast, very fast.  It uses a window manager with
> a right clickable menu accessable from anywhere on the desktop and no icons.
> Although you can enable icons if you want.
> 
> I am running it on an AMD 800 with 128 Ram and it wakes up, asks for video
> info (frames, no frames?), usb mouse, roller mouse and then it takes off.
> It found the work network thru a 3com nic and went out thru my work router
> using DHCP and, presto, Online I was. 
> 
> I have created docs using ABS spreadsheet and TED and a utility is included
> to mount your floppy/cdrom/fat32 hard disk, all with just mouse clicks.
> Thus I saved my work to a floppy while not touching the hard disk, except to
> poke around and verify that I could view/edit the hard disk in midnight
> commander.  Nice, if you need a small self booting distro, this little
> distro is for you.  
> 
> Let me know what y'all think if you try it.  I'll bring it to the install
> fest for folks to look at.
> 
> Mike
> 
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