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Topic: Is it time to go beyond 50 MB?, 50 MB Business Card CDs are hard to find

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Posted: June 07 2004,02:38

I note that Luit Linux had complaints that it's size was too great, so they trimmed
it to below 50 MB in the latest release. I keep wondering how he got Gnotepad to run in that distro at under 50 MB, as it requires a lot of GNOME libs. So, it can be done, and Damn Small is right in keeping the base install to under 50 MB, for dial-up download purposes if nothing else. The add on's seem the way to go, and are very unique and remarkable, to say the least.
I still have my Rapidweather Remaster of DSL, but have not added anything new to it after I fixed up XMMS, and have Mozilla Firefox, wvdial included. I'm way over
50 MB, and have no plans to distribute it, although it works well for me, anyway.
I branched out at version 6x, and have not yet had time to work with DSL 7x, as it is OK as is, with the new extension setup.

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ripcrd6

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Posted: June 07 2004,15:33

I think the small size is appealing also. That is why I originally tried Morphix Light GUI. I have old hardware by most people's standards and appreciate being able to still use it. I use Knoppix on my PII-333 laptop and on a PIII-500 desktop (my fastest machine), but for system rescue, playing around adn old hardware DSL Rocks!!! I pop it into my laptop too, just to play around. I'm a LiveCD addict and DSL is one of my favorites. I like the frequent updates and new features and that John and Robert LISTEN to the users. But if you want DSL bigger, get a util that allows you to add files to YOUR ISO. I use WinISO under windows and kiso under Linux. Just add and remove files at you leisure. With WinISO you can't alter the compressed knoppix filesystem though. The original thing I did was to add my wifi drivers to the ISO (I have an SMC 2635W, I have the source, but they are not GPL, so will not likely ever be in the kernel). I had to find an old version of Knoppix that had the same kernel as DSL to compile the drivers though. So how about a compiling .dsl extension somebody. The gnu-utils.dsl has gcc and make I think, but you need the kernel sources if you want to compile against it. When I was doing this w/ Morphix, they made the kernel sources avail. in a .deb file.

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alok

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Posted: June 09 2004,00:58

you think you want to bring the size lower than 50mb like make the games in a myDSL pkg and that would allow for substitioution of the games easily. it is not like i play the games ever
edit: or even remove all apps and just make then myDSL files... then we can have it really MYdsl whatever i want

AwPhuch

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Posted: June 09 2004,20:41

I like the idea of having all the apps as .dsl extensions...

Make a true "BASE" release (probably way below 50 megs) with the standard releases even no xdesktop. Then ppl can
burn thier own DSL cd using whatever apps they want...

Who needs the monkey server and stuff like that if they dont use it, games when they dont want them, other apps as well...

Just like DEBIAN there is a "BASE" install of the os, then you decide what you want later...makes for a more dynamic and easy to use system...tailored for what you want it to be...great idea!

Brian
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