Congrats

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Congrats
started by: Epsilon

Posted by Epsilon on April 25 2005,02:13

Hi. Since a lot time ago a was hoping a distro like knoopix but smaller, and very very smaller with only the essential programs to work with and without X, with hardware detection, and all the stuff to configure the essential parts. With let to other users make his own pseudo-distros just adding programs and just worry for this programs.

I think that almost all is in dsl, and i'm very happy for that.

I just want to ask if the hardware detection is the native from knoopix or is your own program and if it is updated periodically.
Thats becouse i dont know nothing about hardware detection at this time, i just know what programs i want to my personal live CD.

This is a great job and becouse i'm an student i dont work and i dont have money to donate but, when i start to work i will give to you my special thanks

bye.

PD: Sorry for my english

Posted by cbagger01 on April 25 2005,03:46

The current version of DSL is based upon knoppix 3.4 5-17-2004 version.

It contains most of the knoppix hardware detection.

Usually the hardware detection is automatically upgraded when the DSL team decides to move to a new knoppix base system.

For example,

DSL 0.? to 0.5.31 = based on KNOPPIX 3.2
DSL 0.6 to 0.7.3 = based on KNOPPIX 3.3
DSL 0.8 to 1.0.1 = based on KNOPPIX 3.4

DSL User "tronik" has created a custom unofficial remaster that uses the 2.4.27 kernel with full SATA controller support.

Otherwise, it is do-it-yourself time or wait for the next major update from the team.

Even so, it appears that a crossroads will be reached because knoppix is switching to the 2.6.x kernel and it will no longer be possible to update the 2.4.x based DSL project from anything newer than knoppix 3.7 unless DSL itself switches to the 2.6.x kernel

Posted by sonny73044 on April 25 2005,13:24

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unless DSL itself switches to the 2.6.x kernel

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm fairly new to linux
Why not switch, is this a compatibilty issue or is this kernel not as stable
ReallyI'm just curious cause I'm running a Knoppix install with boot options for both
(no noticable difference in stability here but I have no idea what the changes are, so I'm off to look )

Posted by mikshaw on April 25 2005,13:32

My guess is the 2.6 kernel is too large....could be stability issues as well.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 25 2005,17:06

Supposedly, the 2.6.x kernel abandons support for some older "legacy" hardware but I don't know the details or the extent.

This puts the distro maintainer into a difficult position. Does he use 2.4.x and lose support for newer hardware that was not backported to 2.4.x or does he use 2.6.x and abandon support for some selected older hardware?

At this point, 2.4.30 is still good enough for many mainstream distros to use it so it is a issue to be addressed in the future.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on April 25 2005,17:45

As I have said before (not that I mind saying it again), the 2.4 backport community is VERY active and dedicated.

They usually have the new stuff added to 2.6 backported to 2.4 in less than 2 weeks.

You have to remember, the 2.2 kernel was only laid to rest last year.

2.4 will be around, and updated for many years to come.

Posted by Guardian on May 03 2005,10:31

Hi everyone!!
This is my first post on this forum, just installed DSL yesterday on my laptop... first impressions... DAMM where was this distro hidding all this time??!!!!!! The HD install was a breeze, within minutes I was booting in (did I just say minutes? it was almost like seconds!!) and online!!! that was the bigest surprice so far... I still have to figure out a lot of things and issues but DAMM!!!! what a distro... thanks to the DSL team for such a beauty