water cooler :: Why did you get DSL?
Been playing with linux for maybe a year now. Tried Knoppix, Red Hat 9, and Libranet. Right now, dual-booting Mandriva and WinXP on my daily driver (Gateway laptop, Athlon 64 3400+, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hdd)
I got DSL a couple of days ago to turn one of my old computers into an mp3 jukebox and fileserver. AMD K-6 350, 196 RAM, plus a scrounged 15 GB hard drive. Main reason I picked DSL was because it's tiny => more room for music. Still trying to get some things working...
Been playing with linux for maybe a year now. Tried Knoppix, Red Hat 9, and Libranet. Right now, dual-booting Mandriva and WinXP on my daily driver (Gateway laptop, Athlon 64 3400+, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hdd)
I got DSL a couple of days ago to turn one of my old computers into an mp3 jukebox and fileserver. AMD K-6 350, 196 RAM, plus a scrounged 15 GB hard drive. Main reason I picked DSL was because it's tiny => more room for music. Still trying to get some things working...
Why?
- It fits (redundantly) on my 1GB flash drive;
- I haven't got a computer and I have to borrow one
- It boots from Winblows with Qemu-kQemu-Qmv86
- It works
- It's Linux
- It's Debian
- It's Damn Small!
1) Because I was intrigued with the possibility of placing a whole operating system inside a USB stick [This coupled with a OOo suite makes it perfect to fulfill my needs...] 
2) Because it is the absolute best way to learn about Debian 
I seem not to have enough of DSL and have been running it live and embedded on top of my Fedora Core 4 box. In fact, when FC 5 comes out I am going to hold upgrading my box and install DSL on my hard drive in order to play with it and maybe turn it into my favorite OS.
Why did you get DSL? and Why do I use DSL? are two totally different questions.
Why did you get DSL? For the same reason I got about two dozon other downloads, just plan cirous, I like to test drive any new linux I can. It's a great learning experance.
Why do I use DSL? Because to date it is the best HD install on my 500mhz AMD 64mb ram Laptop. Everything worked right out of the box so to speak. Except the wireless nic card. Even the sound which was unusal, Mirco Suck didn't even do that from the factory. Lost98 never had any volume on the sound system, you could bearly hear it. DSL give me enough volume I can here it over the sound of the desiel engine while I'm in my truck.
It's funny thing though, I tried to use it here at home on my Desktop PC, and was greatly disappointed. DSL wouldn't run my 3com nic which all other linux distros see. So I use Puppy here at home.
Of course I still keep GNU/Debian 3.1 around and Slackware 10.2. Those are my old faithful distros. And in my cybercafe I still have to have Micro Suck, the masses of dumbed down PC users cry for LostXP, But I've managed to calm them with LostME, because I refuse to use XP on my equipment.
As soon as I get a good grip on win4lin I might can get them to run emulated LostME! That's my hope.
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