Site News :: 0.7.1

Robert has been working his magic on the myDSL system which is now a lot more versatile. Now .dsl apps could be launched at any time from any available media including the ramdisk. Also new, applications in compressed iso, 'ci', format -- ci applications are a lot less resource intensive, but need to be mounted at boot time from the root directory of mydsl.

Read all about it:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/notes.html

Download:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/download.html

My only request is that you be easy on the mirrors' bandwidth, keep local copies if you can.

How awesome is this !!
I can put my .dsl extensions anywhere, on any accessible partition,
and call them up at will... :-)
"mydsl-load " is a dream come true !!
Nice touch with the emelfm button....
Really makes testing new .dsl's a breeze..
No more multisession cdr's, just burn the base iso,
and load the extensions from elsewhere !!

Good Work !!
73
ke4nt

Awesome!

A pet project that was on my to-do list was to create a CLOOP version of the OpenOffice DSL and mate it up with a script that would create a mountpoint in /opt and attach a second cloop device for it.

This would allow people with less than 384MB of RAM to be able to run Open Office.

But not suprisingly, Robert is thinking much bigger than me and has already done it and then some.

It never crossed my mind to also do a cloop for FireFox but it is also a great idea because the Firefox DSL or Download Script requires too much RAM for my old computer (which is partly why I created the Opera script way back when).

Now with a Firefox cloop module, I should be able to run Firefox on this old Pentium-1 poorman's install box.

Nice Work.

The rest of the additons also sound very useful. I need to D/L asap.

We all are very fortunate to have Robert working on DSL, it would be a lot less feature full at this point. Cbagger01, kudos to you too, as the myDSL development started from your code examples.

Wondering if there's any way of "upgrading" a 0.7.0 download with whatever's in 0.7.1? ie. if it's a few scripts, a boot image change...? (I have no idea what's actually involved here, just musing...)
Might be something to look at if we want to decrease bandwidth - why download the entire 50MB again when it's just a few "minor" changes?

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