It is, though it looks like the last updates are from last August. It's up to 4.4.10 and the "classic" version 3 was also updated to 3.4.12. Whether it's "practical" all depends on what your needs are - personally I've found DSL good as a diagnostic Linux. For daily use I use a full-size distro (Fedora 11) to which I just switched from Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. Both Ubuntu and Fedora have the option to create a Live Flash version of themselves as well. I've also used Gentoo, which is truly a do-it-yourselfer's dream and installing it is a project in itself, but certainly a great way to learn Linux by jumping in with both feet first and you end up with a system absolutely customized to what your system has and what you want and nothing else. The basic installation leaves you pretty much with a kernel, a shell, a few basic system utilities, a network, and the Portage system which is similar to yum or apt-get except instead of downloading binaries, it downloads and compiles source, according to options you set in advance. And everything is configured through editing text files.
________________________________ From: Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> To: Linux Users Group <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:31:11 PM Subject: [lug:14813] Re: Is there a non-unicode Linux version? On Jul 23, 7:48 pm, Jason Montoya <[email protected]> wrote: > The great thing about Linux is that it's very scalable. I run it at work on > a server with 8 cores and 8GB RAM, and it takes full advantage of that > machine, yet I also have a version at home called DSL (Damn Small Linux) that > fits on, boots and runs from a 512MB flash drive. The kernel is only about > 1.5MB, which may not be the 100 or so K of IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM, > but certainly a tiny enough file by today's standards. I also cut my teeth > on DOS starting with 3.3 and really appreciate the Linux way of doing things > as it gives you that kind of complete control over your system that you had > in DOS, only with mainframe capabilities. You can configure Linux to be as > small or large as you like. I run Xbox Damn small linux on my softmodded xboxes. Also run win 98 on the xbox using qemu, although it crashes a lot more often than the real thing :) I am leaning towards towards DSL, but knoppix live is good too. I would love to get something that boots up and shuts down in a flash. I recently downloaded embedded-dsl which is interesting, but runs a little too slowly for practical use. Is DSL still being worked on? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
