water cooler :: Why did you get DSL?

My desktop has an AMD Athlon XP2000+ with 1 GB of RAM. Size is not an issue with me. I am growing more enthusiastic about DSL because John and others have made a mature distro in a small package. DSL is more flexible in how it is used than anyother distro that I know of. And DSL is growing in popularity which might change the movement of Linux away from three, four, and five disk distros. Today's home computer power is so great that developers have grown lazy because they can just add more of "stuff" rather than be more creative as John has been forced to be. I have tried most of the distros in the past two and a half years. I now only use FreeBSD, Kanotix and DSL and just possibly DSL might be myt main distro.

I dont evern remember when I got "into" DSL...way back when in the .0.6 version or something...

I use it alot and expecially as a rescue CD

Brian
AwPhuch

DSL/Debian/Ubuntu/GNU/Linux (yes, I installed DSL, followed by Debian packages, followed by updating to Ubuntu-5.04 packages, followed by recompiling all of the GNU packages [and Lua, and vim] from source, followed by compiling a tuned kernel-2.4.32) currently serves as my only OS on a 564MHz early i686. I got it because I prefer speed to UI - in fact my window manager only usually serves to run Abiword, aterm (read: vim, bash, gcc, etc.), and xmms. I'm thinking of grabbing the jwm source soon and doing a recompile, followed by source optimization for my needs, so that I can use even less resources.

i'm a guy who's willing to deal with getting my finicky computer's reboot issues. i'm willing to accept the fact that to deal with those motherboard issues, i'll need a new computer.but i like my K6-2 @333MHz. i have 196 MB RAM, and a little 4 GB hard drive. i'm not willing to deal with a bloated, buggy and expensive OS on top of this thing. and i like having an itty-bitty iso. i tried Knoppix and never got it to install on the hard drive well. and i don't like KDE on my comp. every other attempt i've made at getting a different distro to work on my comp failed at the install. so i use DSL. i can't wait to move and get a dial-up at home so i can mess with people's heads. they'll get a little flustered when i tell them that i run DSL on a dial-up.

I got DSL primarily to use random computers as terminals. I teach students to set up linux servers, so I have to hang out in the lab. Sometimes there is a lot of work to do - and sometimes lots of idle time. In the latter case I use DSL to quickly boot some unused computer. Then I can surf the web or ssh into my office computer and get other work done.

DSL is great for this, the small size means it starts up quickly and remains fast with the "toram" option. And when I need more software than a browser, I simply ssh into another machine.

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