roberts
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Posted: Dec. 30 2005,21:33 |
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One both the Wiki and the Main Site promote DSL as a liveCD.
In fact the history of DSL is a live boot business card cd. That is even on our logo.
Two, I would consider the poll to be skewed towards the obvious, which is the prevailing mindset of "I got a cd, now I need to install it to the hard drive."
My colloquial use of the term "Not your Father's Operating System' is not meant to offend. Unix systems have as most other OS since the 1960's have run that way. My use of this term is to make people think of alternate ways that deploy newer technologies And promote what DSL does have to offer. Yes, there is a learning curve. Yes it absolutely bucks the prevailing mindset. We wouldn't have this thread if it weren't so.
It indeed may be time to remove this feature from DSL. As it is, it just happened to work from the then version of Knoppix. It has not been touched much at all over three years. It still trys to detect all the hardware upon each boot up, rebuilds fstab, etc. It is acknowledged that is is very dated. But it is also acknowledged that is it not the focus of DSL. Given all the heat about this library and that library, about oldstable, etc., it may not be worth the hassle.
In fact, I and others will often direct a user looking a small Debian installler to use the one from Debian group.
The libraries needed to run the application that come with DSL are the only ones needed. We will not grow this distro with extra libraries for may be needed future apps. We will not update and bloat grow either when not necessary.
We have a mechanism in place called MyDSL just for that sort of thing.
If you have an old machine uncapable of running the large full size distros and happen to like DSL and just what it offers and if you wish to have a traditional hard drive install of a static system with possibly the use of UCI myDSL extensions, then that would be the only suitable situation that I would personally recommend. Maybe I should pop up a huge warning with just such a message?
Promotion of DSL to change course and become a Debain Installer is not going to happen. There is one already out there.
Just as there are hundreds of Linux distros designed to install to hard drive.
On the other hand, if want to learn, explore, and contribute to a community of Linux users exploring alternate ways to spread the revolution then by all means accept the challenge to learn of the many ways of DSL.
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