DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: The future of Damn Small Linux



Have you tried installing OpenOffice or Evolution with apt-get? I have not yet, but it should be able to tell you what dependencies need to be fulfilled. Some cannot be done since DSL is based on Knoppix, not really Debian 100%.

Bonzai Linux is a small distribution that is 100% Debian, therefore you should be able to install those additional packages via apt-get or synaptic.

Let me know if you try it and how it works.

Cappy.
Quote (CappyCaffeine @ Jan. 04 2004,23:20)
Have you tried installing OpenOffice or Evolution with apt-get? I have not yet, but it should be able to tell you what dependencies need to be fulfilled. Some cannot be done since DSL is based on Knoppix, not really Debian 100%.

Bonzai Linux is a small distribution that is 100% Debian, therefore you should be able to install those additional packages via apt-get or synaptic.

Let me know if you try it and how it works.

Cappy.

Do you know what I was considering before reading your last post? I'll try with Libranet.
I'll perform a minimal graphic install and then add the apps that I mentioned above. I'll let you know how it goes  :)
I'm still running RedHat 8 on my 'duty' machine, but I'm still finding myself tired of it's bloat.
I found DSL a couple weeks back (okay, maybe three), and basically fell in love. I think it's
going to be a great base system for me to build it to exactly what I want. It's small, runs quick
and it isn't loaded with a bunch of daemons I don't need or want. It also auto-detected every
thing on my box, even sound worked right off the bat. It's easier (read faster) to get running
than things like Linux From Scratch (or whatever it's called now), and still gives me the feeling
of having set things up as I want them, instead of what RedHat or someone thinks I want them.

Now for the fun part. Because it's light and simple, I can easily remaster my changes into an .iso,
and even distribute that as my own distro, if I wanted to (ooh, Delinux?). Granted, legally I could
do that with RedHat or any other distro as well, but I'd probably have to invest countless hours
and thousands of dollars on illegal drugs to figure out the intricacies of RPM and RH's
'layout', even though I've been using RedHat for nigh onto 7 years. To contrast, I figured it
out on DSL in an evening, and didn't add any new addictive (or illegal) habits.

So, after all this rambling, I guess my point is simply that DSL will survive just fine, even if
it's called DSL, Delinux (hhmmm... still thinkin about that) or whatever. After all, it's still just
a derivative of Knoppix. Things like Delinux (I gotta quit saying that, I'm liking this too much)
will fill the void between the 50Mb DSLs and the 650Mb Knoppixes that are light, run quick,
have Evolution and a real browser, but no Gnome+KDE+this+that+theother bloat.

Okay, gonna shut up now :)

-edit == spelling-

-edit 2 == update-
btw, to install Evolution it requires re-editing /etc/apt/sources.list to the stable branch. Then 21.2 Mb of downloads requiring 62.6 Mb of install space.
Del,

The main point of your post seems to me that one could easily remaster DSL.
Fair enough, I am not going to argue about that..
My point is though that by far the great majority of users are not going to do that. They'll choose a distro which best suits their needs. Please see my next post for further clarification of what I mean.
And BTW, you'd better choose a different name for your distro, as 'Delinux' sounds to similar to an existing one: DeliLinux
Quote (CappyCaffeine @ Jan. 04 2004,23:20)
Let me know if you try it and how it works.

Cappy.

I did it, exactly as described, with Libranet. Plus I added Firebird and Opera.
I am using Icewm and Xfce4 as my desktop environments.
I absolutely love it.
True, it has taken 1.5 Gig of HD, but with 80 Gig available that is not a problem.
If I were a developer I'd also make my own distro: can you imagine? Lean on resources and yet a collection of some of the most loved linux apps... :)
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