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Just found this debate...

My perspective: DSL is the only distro I've managed to get loaded onto my tiny machine - an old Libretto with 32Mb of memory.  

Now that's a seriously low-end machine these days (P75, 32Mb of RAM, HD upgraded to 6Gb) - but DSL runs on it quite nicely, does wifi and connects me to the net.   Browsing with Dillo is reasonably fast; even with Firefox it's not too bad, once Firefox has actually launched!

To me, the 50Mb limit matters much less than the way it will run on a low-mem machine.   Space isn't really my issue!

Would it be feasible to have DSL 'cores' set up for low-spec / high(er) spec machines, then build everything else round them in modules?
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P75, 32Mb of RAM
Wow...32mb was quite a bit of ram at the time that machine was made.  My first was a 333 and that had 32mb when I bought it.

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To me, the 50Mb limit matters much less than the way it will run on a low-mem machine.
Unfortunately, there are still a lot of places where broadband is either a luxury or simply not available (like here in the woods). 50mb is not a big deal to download, but I very seldom check out any typical-sized distros unless Slackware or Debian has a major upgrade. I haven't even tried DSL-N =o)
"Forget the Kernel update the Apps in DSL"
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P75, 32Mb of RAM
Wow...32mb was quite a bit of ram at the time that machine was made.  My first was a 333 and that had 32mb when I bought it.

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To me, the 50Mb limit matters much less than the way it will run on a low-mem machine.
Unfortunately, there are still a lot of places where broadband is either a luxury or simply not available (like here in the woods). 50mb is not a big deal to download, but I very seldom check out any typical-sized distros unless Slackware or Debian has a major upgrade. I haven't even tried DSL-N =o)

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P75, 32Mb of RAM
Wow...32mb was quite a bit of ram at the time that machine was made.  My first was a 333 and that had 32mb when I bought it.

I think the Libretto originally had 16Mb, upgradeable to 32Mb - but no more than that!

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To me, the 50Mb limit matters much less than the way it will run on a low-mem machine.
Unfortunately, there are still a lot of places where broadband is either a luxury or simply not available (like here in the woods). 50mb is not a big deal to download, but I very seldom check out any typical-sized distros unless Slackware or Debian has a major upgrade. I haven't even tried DSL-N =o)


Perhaps if the 'core' of DSL (enough to get Fluxbox with networking reliably up & running on a reasonable range of hardware) were kept within a small downloadable unit (or two units, one for 32Mb or less (just SL, perhaps - too small to give a dam!), one for the big stuff), and everything else were separately downloadable as apps, you could have small downloads and both old machines and new ones could be catered for.  

And there could still be a standard DSL 50Mb mini-CD as there is at present, comprising the bigger-machine version and some apps - awkward people with archaic machines which need DSL to have *any* sort of Linux would be quite willing to take the extra steps to download the 'small' core and add their own selection of apps.   Our old machines tend not to like CDs anyway :-)
Update DSL Kernel to 2.4.34

Or to whatever.

But please update the Kernel.
Otherwise I can not access the internet anymore with my new computer.

Thank you
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