Site News :: DSL 2.3 is out!

Thanks, doobit. This is a very solid release.
I think allowing the community to pre-test the work that I am doing before an official release has been most helpful. Keeps me honest and the bugs to a minimum. I don't know about release numbers, I just keep on trucking with core infrasturure. I have finished the core for the new alternative version and am now back working on dsl v2.4

Just to add some more praise for DSL....

I have noticed VERY significant increases in battery life with DSL over W95/98/98SE - even with the NOP patch for W95. I have a battery which gives aound 45 minutes (if I'm lucky!) use under Micro$oft OS's & I get well in excess of 2 hours out of the same battery under DSL. The heat generated is also much less. I can handle the PCMCIA cards after use with DSL, under the other OS's the cards are so hot they can barely be handled after use.

Not sure about the Saturn wallpaper. It looks good, but with icons on the left of the screen they aren't as clear as with the fractal movement wallpaper. Still who spends their time staring at the wallpaper.

I am much more impressed with DSL 2.3 than 1.5, which was my last DSL distro to try. I even managed to install it on an old Pentium II (Deschute) which 1.5 didn't work on. I do have one thing I am trying to solve: How to save to my floppy when using a word processor. How to save to a floppy drive?

i really liked the orange yellow elephant theme you guys had a while ago ... is there any way to get that on a newer version of DSL ? :P

you can store the elefant style and background file from the old version into /home/dsl/.fluxbox/background and /home/dsl/.fluxbox/style from the new version. And then select it from the menu desktop style and background.

If you want, you can modify in the style file the line with the link to the background file with /home/dsl/.fluxbox/background/elefant, and now you only have to select in the menu the elefant style.

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