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roberts

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Posted: June 12 2007,01:25

Read the Getting Started document. It will make using DSL much easier. The mydsl= among other options are explained.

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Posted: June 12 2007,13:20

Yes sorry it was in front of my face every time DSL boots. Doh! RTFM as they say

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Posted: June 12 2007,16:48

Hi everyone.
I've been thinking about DSL again...it's quite incredible the way you got it compressed into 50MB...to have firefox and all those apps....when you look at Ubuntu it's a whole 650MB. DSL boots up so fast as well.

Years ago ( and even now) I was a big fan of Acorn. Risc OS was a brilliant OS. You would switch it on and in seconds up it popped - it didn't need any disks, started almost straight away. I really think that's the way it should be with computers. So credit to the programmers. I'd love to see DSL run on a UMPC or something....

People need something simple to get on the web and print....I know so many peeps fed up with Windows when all they want is to get on the web / book tickets / write a bit of wordprocessing....maybe it's time for a brand new computer running DSL all embedded into the OS........Amiga nearly got there ( they might yet ) ......I'm going to buy a silent mini pc and give it a go.

Thanks again for all your hard work everyone...I will contribute some money next month!

humpty

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Posted: June 19 2007,03:05

For frugal, there's really no need for backup images.

The only real difference between boot-ups is backup.tar.gz. You can specify where to load this with the restore= boot option. If you point this to a good copy of backup.tar.gz (or even if the file doesn't exist) then you can boot up every time.

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Posted: June 20 2007,00:05

@blip:

I believe Robert is also a big fan of RiscOS so you've probably made a friend there :=)

I think that's partly where he got the idea for uci apps

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