Message: 8 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:36:13 +0000 From: Simon Royal <s.royal@totalise.co.uk> Subject: [ALUG] Damn Small Linux To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Message-ID: <039aa294024c1b5bf04d436c4f1f05e0@totalise.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
Hi
I have been reading about DSL (Damn Small Linux) and wondered if anyone had any experience with it. I know it is capable of running on a 386, so my problem of finding a cheap Pentium laptop to run Linux on sufficiently shouldn't be a problem.
I wondered if anyone knows how stable it is? does it work with wifi cards? what the desktop is like? any general info?
Kind Regards
Simon Royal
---- www.majikb.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better, so I bought an Apple Mac
Regarding DSL: I tried it on my now Debian machine- it installed ok; but I had problems with APT. Although it was nice to have X pre-configured, and a whole load of software ready-to-go, I found it was better to start with Debian Sarge from scratch. DSL (as i'm sure you have read) starts as a Live CD. Download it and see it for yourself- you may have better experiences with APT. Regards, Dave.