brianw
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Posted: Mar. 10 2006,19:40 |
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mikshaw, I would also like to add that DSL can be installed to a hard drive and either chopped down or expanded at the users will. Doing this though will eventually lead to a reinstall if you continue to play with options (I know I have done that several times).
As mikshaw stated for most the beauty of DSL is that it can just be rebooted and have a clean OS with a desktop OS that serves the prupose of most people. If an extension has been added that causes problems or that the user does not want they simply remove it or put it in the /optional directory of their persistent storage and they have their system back the way they want.
DSL gives stability and expandability (with a base system that is very usable) while also providing us adventurous people with an OS that is fast and can be "played with". When I trash my install by adding/stripping things it only takes me a short while to get my system back the way I started (keep apt and DSL downloads on a seperate partition so I can rebuild quickly). Something that should be noted is that windows users don't have this security. When a windows install is trashed (notice I didn't say if) it takes a while to get it back and they don't have the option of a live boot to work with in the mean time (unless they have DSL or another linux laying around).
The traditional DSL install (imagine, I have been involved with DSL enough now to call the frugal/live CD install a traditional install) provides users full security with expandability and a complete OS that provides almost everything one could need "out of the gate". DSL is quite small now and giving it the ability to be that customizable would probably increase it's size considerably and make it very hard to maintain. As mikshaw stated that would require a debian style package system with full dependancy checking.
The only other real option would be to make all apps MyDSL extensions and only have a base system in the core KNOPPIX filesystem. In my opinion DSL is a very good basic OS at this stage and for most is very user friendly (and also gives people like me freedom to play).
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