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Posted: April 15 2007,10:13 QUOTE
I d/l DSL about two weeks ago and I have been struggling ever since. It seems I may have an old version. Nothing works the way it should: DSLPanel should have a link to GnuUtils, not there; there should be a link to Prism2, not there. What version do I have? Hard to find out but during startup I see '2.78 Knoppix booting' and uname -a says
Linux box 2.4.22-xfs #1 SMP Fr Sep 19 17:55:45 CEST 2003 i686 Gnu/Linux'
which might mean something. On the CD I have a file info.html that says Welcome to Damn Small Linux and a Folder Knoppix dated 2004. The contents of this folder are also dated 2004.
When I acquired DSL I was offered a choice of mirrors. I have forgotten which one I chose but I just had a look at the LinuxQuestions mirror and the most recent version of dsl is 0.9.3 dated 2004. Did you know the mirrors carry such ancient material? I need a small Linux but it need not be that small so I am off to install DSL-N. Version RC4.
Good luck with the DSL project which looks really worthwhile.
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Posted: April 15 2007,16:35 QUOTE
Click on MyDSL and then System Stats. It'll tell you which version you are running. Latest is 3.3.
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Posted: April 15 2007,17:30 QUOTE
Under release notes it would appear that you would be running DSL v0.6x-0.7x

For mirrors see damnsmalllinux.org > download
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Posted: April 15 2007,22:15 QUOTE
Amazing that someone would load up such an old version of DSL.

I made many versions of DSL during 2004. In fact, it was Jan 15, 2004 that I began to create every version of DSL. I published v0.5.3.1 on that date.. I upgraded the kernel from 2.4.20 to 2.4.22 in v 0.6 and I added the version number in the Dillo startup page in v0.7.2. All of which were during 2004. Too many improvements to list from when I started maintaining and publishing each version DSL

My guess is that he found a v0.6.
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Posted: April 16 2007,16:17 QUOTE
Yes it may be amazing. All I did, IIRC, is go to a likely-looking mirror and follow the prompts, which got me an image which I burned to a CD. But as I said in the original post some of the mirrors are not kept up to date. If you like I could try to find out which mirror it was. A modern version of DSL would probably do what I want but I went off in a huff and got DSL-N which will also do what I want.
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