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Posted: Oct. 28 2004,01:04 |
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| Quote (cbagger01 @ Oct. 26 2004,23:57) | FYI,
John & Co made quite an effort to eliminate the word "damn" from being used inside the distribution. The bootup screen no longer contains the word "damn" and the default user account name is "dsl" instead of "damnsmall".
Short of renaming the distro and confusing everybody, there isn't much more that can be done.
If the name is too big of an issue for you, please try some other distributions that are based on similar concepts as Damn Small Linux, with some of them being direct decendants of it.
For starters, try Feather Linux or Liut Linux.
"Feather" sounds pretty harmless but who knows about Liut? Maybe it's named after a demon from the sixth plane of h*ll? Who knows :laugh: |
First let me thank the powers-that-be for having addressed the issue I raised. I'm also sorry if doing that much kept them from working on substantive technical progress. But for the record, I know there are still uses of "damn" within some of the utilities, although I can't cite a particular example off-hand. And of course you know at which Web site one gets technical support.
One older woman in my county, a Mormon (we have the oldest LDS congregation in my state), takes the D-word in stride by telling this little pun: "You know, when Brigham Young settled out West, he would say 'dam this!", "dam that!" - refering, of course, to rivers."
As for me, I spent most of childhood in the big, bad Inner City. Perhaps you know the old Robin Williams joke about how kids there learn to recite the alphabet: "F****** A!, F****** B!, F****** C!, ..."
As nearly everyone knows, the acronym DSL has its own problem, because of collision with Digital Subscriber Line.
I will be sticking with DSL. I've invested some of my limited time in it, and I now learn it earns the praise of people I respect who have used it a long time, too. For now, when asked by local people what DSL means, I think I'll say it means "Door Stop Linux" to ME - a distro that runs just fine on PCs perhaps otherwise only useful as doorstops these days. Maybe if they discover another meaning, I'll try to placate them with the notion of the far more severe expressions they can encounter merely by surfing the Web using DSL - or any other OS.
While it might be flattering that DSL has inspired parallel efforts with less provocative names, there is something to be said for keeping forking to a minimum. (No snickering!)
I read claims that as of version 0.8, DSL remastering grows more difficult. If things are really not that bad, I'd like to try my hand at remastering, if only to *fully* automate the process of customization, e.g. via a floppy disk. If I do that, I can grep for any "nasty" words while I am at it.
Thanks again for the many kind replies posted here. :o)
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