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Posted: July 09 2005,15:07 QUOTE

Andy,

Thanks, I am sure your brother-in-law will be very surprised. Lets keep spreading DSL to family, friends, and neighbors.

If running a liveCD is too much heat you should be using the "toram" boot option or try my new frugal_grub install it is multiple OS friendly.

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that it seems that you guys primarily create DSL for live use, and perhaps pendrive use, in preference to hd use.


The charter of DSL started as a liveCD. To me, it is much more interesting to push the envelope with liveCD and OCI (Other Compressed Installs). We now have frugal(lilo), frugal_grub, and the pendrive installs. That is why I write the code to do these sorts of things. Actually, after liveCD, was the CF which gave "birth" to frugal.  If you have not read my blog entry you should, "Not Your Father's Operating System". Everyone has hard drive installs. That is how "your father did it! I would get very bored if that is all we have!

DSL also has alot of custom code to get it its own identity. Anyone can collect files and put together a distro. Having custom code to give it a crafted feel makes DSL an interesting project. This is the area that I have the most fun doing.

Wait until you see my improvements comming in 1.3. Much more polish!

And thanks to Chris and his howtos users are finally seeing the abilities of that code and the unique capabilites of DSL. Even thought some of it I wrote quite awhile ago.

Robert
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Posted: July 09 2005,19:30 QUOTE

I have really enjoyed the frugal install since I first started using it about a month ago. As you stated hd installs and live cd were most always the options that were presented to us but it is very exciting what you are doing with dsl. I consider it a pretty revolutionary concept and look forward to all of the future improvements.
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