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I installed 4.2.2 on a VirtualPC machine a couple of hours ago and am playing with it.  I like the cosmetic changes very much!  It has pizzazz again.

I'll probably migrate forward on this version soon.
Good mornig to alls...and peace over the world..

dsl ver 4.2.2 its Ok ...the work its great...its said by a compulsive tester kuky...the problem is to climb the curve of knowledge (as usual between vers)..

Where is the problem...?

in dsl.org..more specifically in mydsl.org , there are so many ways of being organized as users are in the forum... how the problem is big i open a thread in user feedback , mydsl.org, to discuss, by all , about Vision mission goals and  the human capital to do a linux distro and a linux.org ...
I have been a DSL user for quite a while.  While I've bought a few items (a mini-CD), some mini-ITX items, and made a small donation,  I must say that I've received much more than I've given.  

DSL v4.2.2 is but one of the many iterations of a well thought out line of Linux releases developed to fill a void in useful operating system software for older, less capable systems.........yet certainly fun to run as a frugal release in a virtual machine (as I do).

I have "fun" making things work.  Sometimes it drives me crazy, but in the end I end up learning something.  I wish I had the technical ability to do more.

If you have the ability, donate time, energy, and ideas (money?).  If you don't like this forum or distrubution, there's plenty more available.  Maybe you'd like to start your own?

Thank you all for ANOTHER great year.

Bob
DSL is probably more art than science, which must be quite frustrating to the early potty training set.  Science attempts to establish an absolute by laboriously testing a null hypothesis. DSL starts with a vision which is expressed via the creative manipulation of language. As opposed to absolutes, the expression is dynamic and transient (and often flawed). I share what worked for me (at the moment) with no guarantee it will work for you. The community builds on itself, forms it's own process.

Why DSL has made it this far, where so many other distros have failed, is probably a combination of the inherent usefulness of the vision (a small, portable, very fast, efficient, operating system contrary to the direction of mainstream systems) and the work of a few gifted individuals like Robert who could take the initial vision and expand it into it's current state. DSL's life, however, is dependent on the community that supports it.  

Science does best in the laboratory, but tends to fail in the community, where the elements of unpredictability and unforeseen variables continue to play havoc. May DSL continue to be riddled with holes, like the rest of life.
Hello
I have a very old laptop Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDT (Pentium 166MMX, 32MB Ram)
I have installed DSL V4 with no problems and works great.
Now I´m trying to boot DSL v4.1 and v4.2.2 from the CDRom but gives me a 'boot failure' and doesn´t start. -md5 is ok on both .iso´s and are burned x2-
Any advice?
regards  :)
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