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    Fri, 06 May 2005

    Damn Small Linux, a.k.a. DSL

    DSL is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.

    Damn Small can run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of RAM.

    It can run as a LiveCD, within MS windows, from a USB pen drive, IDE CF, or hard drive (Debian) install.

    The included Word Processor is FLWriter which uses Xhtml file format.

    Window manager is Fluxbox.

    Can add extra packages from myDSL

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    Slackware

    A LTSP lab is fine, but what if you want to give people an old computer with stand-alone Linux on it?

    Ralph Klimek suggested Slackware 8 as suitable for use on old small computers -- "usable on 4 MB laptops".

    DistroWatch has a http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware summary and a http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=slackware news listing for Slackware.

    The ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/ official download site points to http://slackware.com/getslack/torrents.php torrents for 10.1 and a unofficial slackware mirrors page.

    I fetched slackware-8.1-install.iso from http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ -- 689,405,952 bytes at 1.33 MB/s !!!

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