Wow!!!

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Wow!!!
started by: gui

Posted by gui on Dec. 06 2004,13:59

Dsl 0.9.0/1 With Firefox...embedded....really 2004 is THE year of DSL and DSL is near becoming THE Live-CD Distro...and,why not? THE Linux Distro!!! I'm very happy since I changed windows for linux last year and since I changed other Linux distros for DSL (since 0,59 ) Now is my officcial O.S And I'm very proud of my humble contributions to DSL
What for 2005? Perhaps UMSDOS/DSL for booting on any PC with or without working O.S? Or perhaps....a tiny file which can be loaded into a Hand-Helc PC with say....hmmm Windows CE 2.0

This sounds nice isn't it?

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 06 2004,14:12

most handheld pcs don't use x86 processors, meaning dsl will almost certainly not run.

Posted by gui on Dec. 06 2004,14:56

That means is impossible to make some kind of soft that can use linux on hand-helds?

Posted by caulktel on Dec. 06 2004,15:15

Linux is already being used on the Ipaq line of hand helds,and many others, and DSL could actully be loaded on them as well, but not without a lot of work. The kernel would have to be recompiled for the proccesser and all the packages, then striped down even further that it already is, because of the lack of ram in most hand helds. I don't think this is the direction that the DSL developers is heading, but who knows what the future holds for DSL.

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 06 2004,16:08

depends what proccessor, many distros (eg:debian) have support for many types of processors. dsl (afaik) supports only x86

Posted by outanet on Dec. 06 2004,16:56

i know its a little cheat, but my nokia runs dsl from an sd card, i just need to plug it in to a pc via usb.

Posted by ico2 on Dec. 06 2004,17:04

lol, is that the device running dsl or the pc running dsl using an image on the sdcard of the device?

Posted by codestorm on Dec. 07 2004,09:07

Well, it's not quite DSL, but I've had linux (Debian derivative) running on my trusty Psion Series 5 before (reverted due to lack of support).

Not bad for a puta with 8MB RAM and an 18MHz CPU.