Make it bigger

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Make it bigger
started by: tosha

Posted by tosha on Nov. 21 2005,04:14

I play with DSL2.0 on ThinkPad 390X, I like it very much, it is the only OS easy to install and has most things needed.

I understand that it is fun to make something in 50MB which has everything inside. but I think 300MB would be also ok. Main thing that it is fast enough to work on older machines.

I do not understand why not to leave enough fonts to write in all languages, why xpdf reads only english and so on, adding this things will not make machine slower it is just a metter of memory.

I wanted just few things, an editor which could do any encoding, TeX and webbrouser and last two problems are solved while first (which seems to be the simplest) needs a lot of effort.

Clearly it took a lot of effort to make it damn small, but why not to make an extended version with the same set of applications but fully functional, let it be even 600MB, it does not metter.

It seems to be a simpler than making DSL, maybe not as much fun, but people need it more.

Posted by roberts on Nov. 21 2005,04:30

We already do! It is called mkmydsl and you decide 50MB to GB's
CD size to DVD size you decide.

Have fun.

Posted by faroutscience on Nov. 21 2005,15:39

If you made it bigger it wouldn't be DSL it would only be PSL, pretty small linux.

Jeff

Posted by tosha on Nov. 21 2005,17:47

Let it be simply DL...

Anyway, who knows a way to add fonts?, is there any deb-packege I could use?

Posted by doobit on Nov. 21 2005,18:17

I don't know about adding fonts since I haven't gotten that far along yet...but...if you load DSL with the keyboard seetings for your local, then you can type in your own language with FLWriter, at least. There are also a few premastered language versions of DSL floating around the net. Maybe one of them would fit your needs.

Posted by tosha on Nov. 21 2005,22:58

I can write, but I can not read, I get a simbols from an other coding system. Playing with fonts does not help, it seems that there is no single font with russian coding (koi8r or cp1251 or anything). Correct me if I'm wrong.
(BTW it works only on liveCD)

I guess these fonts were cuted to make this distro Damn Small, why not to bring them back call it Damn Fast, so everybody could use it....

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Nov. 21 2005,23:24

As stated in the < FAQ >, the base DSL iso is 50mb - no more, no less, and this will not change at any time in the forseeable future.

Mkmydsl is a great way for users to add functionality to a custom iso. Use it and love it.

-J.P.