0.7.1
Forum: Site News
Topic: 0.7.1
started by: John
Posted by John on June 04 2004,01:39
Robert has been working his magic on the myDSL system which is now a lot more versatile. Now .dsl apps could be launched at any time from any available media including the ramdisk. Also new, applications in compressed iso, 'ci', format -- ci applications are a lot less resource intensive, but need to be mounted at boot time from the root directory of mydsl. Read all about it:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/notes.html >
Download:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/download.html >
My only request is that you be easy on the mirrors' bandwidth, keep local copies if you can.
Posted by ke4nt1 on June 04 2004,02:08
How awesome is this !!I can put my .dsl extensions anywhere, on any accessible partition,
and call them up at will... :-)
"mydsl-load " is a dream come true !!
Nice touch with the emelfm button....
Really makes testing new .dsl's a breeze..
No more multisession cdr's, just burn the base iso,
and load the extensions from elsewhere !!
Good Work !!
73
ke4nt
Posted by cbagger01 on June 04 2004,03:36
Awesome!A pet project that was on my to-do list was to create a CLOOP version of the OpenOffice DSL and mate it up with a script that would create a mountpoint in /opt and attach a second cloop device for it.
This would allow people with less than 384MB of RAM to be able to run Open Office.
But not suprisingly, Robert is thinking much bigger than me and has already done it and then some.
It never crossed my mind to also do a cloop for FireFox but it is also a great idea because the Firefox DSL or Download Script requires too much RAM for my old computer (which is partly why I created the Opera script way back when).
Now with a Firefox cloop module, I should be able to run Firefox on this old Pentium-1 poorman's install box.
Nice Work.
The rest of the additons also sound very useful. I need to D/L asap.
Posted by John on June 04 2004,05:07
We all are very fortunate to have Robert working on DSL, it would be a lot less feature full at this point. Cbagger01, kudos to you too, as the myDSL development started from your code examples.
Posted by RoGuE_StreaK on June 04 2004,13:30
Wondering if there's any way of "upgrading" a 0.7.0 download with whatever's in 0.7.1? ie. if it's a few scripts, a boot image change...? (I have no idea what's actually involved here, just musing...)Might be something to look at if we want to decrease bandwidth - why download the entire 50MB again when it's just a few "minor" changes?
Posted by cbagger01 on June 04 2004,15:12
The answer to your quandry is 'rsync'.If you can download the newest dsl iso file using the rsync process it would speed things up.
Basically, you would rsync your old iso file with the new iso that is at the download site and only the changes between the two files will be sent to you over the internet.
I have never used it myself but I have read reports of others who use it to download upgraded isos with great success.
Posted by TyphoonMentat on June 04 2004,18:09
However, due to the way cloop compresses things, would rsync work? I'm not sure every file is in exactly the same place (i.e. byte offset) when cloop compresses things and you compare them, so it might make no difference whatsoever if more changes had been made than a few - you might only save a megabyte or two at the most.Then again, I've never tried it...
Posted by cbagger01 on June 04 2004,18:59
I harbor the same suspicions that you have about rsync.However, I hear of people that use rsync to download the latest knoppix or the new Peanut Linux livecd and both of these iso's use a cloop image.
However, I can't vouch for it personally.
Posted by l0st on June 07 2004,11:14
This new release merited a headline in the < Distrowatch Weekly. >Keep up the good work guys : D
Posted by ke4nt1 on June 07 2004,13:03
WooHoo !!Man-O-Man !!
Love seeing that post in the Distrowatch Weekly !
Just what the "Doctor Ordered" !
"Top O' the pile ... :-)
Hats off to John & Robert... Good Work !
73
ke4nt