Congrats on a DamnFineDistribuition

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Congrats on a DamnFineDistribuition
started by: NoRiMorse

Posted by NoRiMorse on June 23 2004,22:09

Over the last few months I have been familiarizing myself with linux; fed up with Windows and M*$oft in general I wanted something more for less

I tried RedHat and got it installed, but it made windows98 look like a speed demon. I tried Mandrake and got it to install, albeit I had to try several times and various distributions, finally getting 8.1 to install, it worked fairly well and sold me on linux. Next I tried gentoo, got it to the command prompt a few times but found configuring it beyond that point difficult....tried knoppix, variants of redhat (fedora), and damnsmalllinux 0.7...FINALLY!!

Not only did DamnSmall install with a bit of effort, I have no CDburner so I had to work out an HD installation. But it worked and quite well...after breaking it a few times i finally found the forums, and am now able to find answers to my many questions.

I just wanted to thank the people responsible for this distribution, whomever you are...you rule!! After fighting with fedora, gentoo, mandrake, knoppix,etc...I must say I am grateful for finding DamnSmall. I have been able to do everything I wanted to with Apache/Perl/PHP/mySQL, i was only successful in getting these set up on Mandrake 8.1, despite trying on all the others .... I have only failed to make PowerManga work properly on DSL
(runs intolerably slow) but I can live without that.

BRAVO..keep up the good work :cool:

Posted by AwPhuch on June 24 2004,16:01

They do awesome work dont they!

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by Cirvin on June 25 2004,01:12

Yes they do.

I learned Linux using DSL and TOMSRBT and use DSL on a day to day basis.

Posted by Patrick on June 27 2004,04:35

DSL is a VERY cool distro. I got it from LinuxFormat magazine and didn't really think a 50mb distro would be enough to do anything cool with but you guys proved me wrong.

Posted by YewniX on June 27 2004,06:02

I was gonna make my own reply but decided to throw it in here.

I've been using linux now for 4 weeks (ubern00b) and I WAS running SuSE 9.0. As with many others before me I went distro crazy, from SuSE, Slack, Debian, knoppix, gnoppix and morphix in the space of a week and a half. The live CD's really caught my interest and all the "compiling your own kernel" stuff.

Blasting through the live CD's (listed above) and Slax, I kept getting various hardware problems and had a real problem using the apt-get command on debian. I really wanted to build my own custom distro for my PC's specific needs and was getting no-where.

Then my friend gave me DSL on a mini CD. I laughed and told him there was no way that it would work. Especially as debian and slack failed to pickup my USB mouse that connects into my keyboard which then connects into my USB on the PC as well as my nvidia 5600XT. However....I put the CD and follow (the incredibly painless, even for a week Linux n00b) booting instructions and its done. I'm greeted by a working desktop. And a minimal one with the absolute bare essentials of what I want to create my own personal "flavour"

There are only two small problems that I am having (and they are tiny): Every so often my mouse LED brigtens up and both keyboard and mouse freeze for a split second but continue working. This only happens every 5 minutes or so.
The second problem is the keyboard mapping. I selected the UK spec keyboard map but it still gives me the american spec map. ie " = @ and vice versa. Again. Not a major problem, which I'm sure will be fixed when I finish typing this and look through the boards for a solution.

Great job on the distro. I'm a user to stay.

Posted by daniel on June 28 2004,06:21

I'm very grateful with this, DSL lets me work in peace, without loadings or similars. I' from Chile,and to see dillo and monkey sorprised me xD Thanks a lot guys!! My heart is filled up.

Posted by Alisdair Kelly on July 03 2004,13:27

I've got to add my 2 cents here. I spent a lot of time trying various LiveCD distros before settling on DSL. I chose DSL for the small size and range of applications. Finally set up a computer to install it on the hard drive. Did the installation about a month ago and have managed to learn a few things on my own and through the help of the regulars. "Me 'ats off to" John and Robert for the truly"giant" mightly mite distro, and to Ken4nt and chbagger01 for their work and assistance.

Posted by tlewis on July 06 2004,16:25

Simply the best distro that I have tried. Congratulaions and thanks. I run DSL from a mini CD (ordered a business card sized one) with about 100 MB of .DSL on a 512 MB USB key. This leaves plenty of room for projects/data. Everything fits in my pocket and I can take over any windows machine at work and there is nothing IT can complain about. I am very impressed with the hardware detection of DSL it recognized my Ambicom CF 802.11b card in a PCMCIA adapter, a 20gb Archos USB HDD and an 80gb Buslink USB HDD-not all versions of Knoppix have done this. Just for the record it isn't booting on an Athlon 3200 based compaq with an Nvidia 128Mb videocard (So far only Knoppix 3.4 does this) and I haven't gotten it to recognize a D-Link DWL-122 USB 802.11b adapter.