DSL coming back

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[SrlYUjSt]

Ive always had an interest...no obsession with computers, however I didnt really pursue my passion outside of fixing end user problems in the butt of windows OS. I have ADD so befor my medication reading through lists and lists of of ...stuff... to figure out how to actually accomplish somthing I couldnt through trial and error. So now happily medicated I can actually sit down and read a little bit...at least more than I was. Well I have a dell d600 that my church donated to me (yes I LOVE God), but the admin was locked out. I dont have internet access outside of a few min at mcdonalds, so I needed an OS that is small and upgradeable. I tried tinycore, but that was a bit to small...then I tried DSL. I like it because it has bugs, but they are simple enough to try to solve...it makes me more hands on, which means after typing the same commands over and over and trying to figure out which ones I need, I have learned much in a very short amount of time.

All that ramble was just to say thank you for such a unique workable system, that is really fun to learn linux with.

[brttwilliams]

After a long hiatus I am bring this project back to life.  The first step was to bring this site back to working order.  We now have a functioning forum (this).  The old forum is now static HTML and it available here (http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/). 

Next I'll be doing a release of DSL to fix some bugs and time-bugs and get the distro in proper working order.  For now I do not see the scope of the project changing much -- the goal will be the same, pack as much utility and applications into 50 MB as possible.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news... the thread was opened almost a year ago... John, do you have an ETA on development? Is there anything some of us could do, donate, test, develop? I personally don't have the development skill, but I have a history of beta testing and tracking down bugs....

I'm currently using the "newest" version of embedded DSL just to be able to run it on my work laptop parallel to 7....