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sml

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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,12:20

What does everyone think about the above concept DSL. That is ...
- i686 optimised
- 2.6 kernel
- only minimum base install to boot to a command prompt. Then users can add in packages as required.
- increased size limit from 50Mb to say 128Mb if required. (RAM is very cheap these days.)

mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,16:58

I would go for that only if it were LESS than 50mb. I can already make a textmode remaster in under 30mb (including a few software upgrades and additions). There's nothing in the 2.6 kernel that justifies that sort of increased size while still removing the gui apps, in my opinion.

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Grim

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Posted: Jan. 09 2006,06:55

IIRC, the tiny Xservers that are included with DSL won't work with the 2.6 kernel, ergo, DSL sticks with the 2.4.x series kernels.

DSL is optimised to work with older hardware, I doubt standaradizing on i686 will bring any benefit to the distros targeted base.

The Debian netinst CD iso's already do a mimimum base install and boot to a command prompt. Why make DSL do something that stock, vanilla Debian already does pretty well?

DSL will never go over 50MB. At least I hope not. Personally, I wish tomsrtbt was still in development.

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frankseu

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Posted: Jan. 09 2006,10:59

Hello,

i also hope that it vill NEVER go over 50MB.

But as i posted some month ago :
INSERT did a 50MB 2.6.11.6 based on Knoppix 3.9

Here is the Link :
http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html

here are the Features :
full read-write support for NTFS-partitions using captive
support for various file system types: EXT2,EXT3,MINIX,REISERFS,JFS,XFS,NTFS,FAT,MSDOS,NFS,SMBFS,CIFS,NCPFS,UDF,AFS,EFS,HFS,HFS+,
HPFS,SHFS,UFS,UNIONFS
support for linux software RAID and LVM2
support for WLAN adapters
network analysis (e.g. nmap, tcpdump)
disaster recovery (e.g. parted, gpart, partimage, testdisk, recover)
virus scanning (Clam Antivirus)
computer forensics (e.g. chkrootkit, foremost, rootkit hunter)
surf the internet (e.g. the web browser dillo [enhanced version], the graphical FTP client gFTP)
network boot server to boot network boot enabled clients that cannot boot from the CD (insert-remote)
installation on a USB memory stick (usb-install)
based on Linux kernel 2.6.11.6 and Knoppix 3.9

Frank

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Posted: Jan. 09 2006,14:53

Quote (frankseu @ Jan. 09 2006,05:59)

Hello,

i also hope that it vill NEVER go over 50MB.

But as i posted some month ago :
INSERT did a 50MB 2.6.11.6 based on Knoppix 3.9

Here is the Link :

Very nice distro for what it was designed for, but you are missing the point.
If you want something that does that, then use that. If you want something that does this, then use this. DSL is designed to do what it does, if you make it something else, then it is no longer what it is.

There is another distro out there that will already do what you are asking - Linux From Scratch.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

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