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I remember DSL - Damn Small Linux, which sat at something like 5-7MB and was pretty feature complete, including a nice package manager.
by ricardobeat 4y ago
I remember DSL - Damn Small Linux, which sat at something like 5-7MB and was pretty feature complete, including a nice package manager.
- passthejoe 4y agoI think TinyCore is the same developer
- yellowapple 4y agoOne of the developers, yeah. Bit of a complicated and messy history: https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20090323&mode=68#feature https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20090323&mod... In short: John Andrews created DSL. Robert Shingledecker started contributing patches and got brought in as a developer; he created (among other things) the MyDSL extension system and a bunch of other goodies. DSL started falling apart organizationally, and Andrews "exiled" Shingledecker (in the latter's words) - so Shingledecker carried on with developing Tiny Core Linux instead.
- yellowapple 4y agoDSL was near-exactly 50MB (since that's the size of a "business card" CD-R). And yeah, somehow that thing managed to ship with multiple web browsers and a full office suite. DSL was my first distro (really second, but it was the first I actually installed on a machine - specifically, the Compaq Presario 1210 my mom handed down to me), and I remember it fondly.