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roberts

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Posted: July 03 2007,05:22

DSL v3.4 is now released. Final change log:

1. Updated MurgaLua to v0.4.1
2. Added libXft.so.2
3. Added acpid. Use boot option "acpid"
4. Added bcrypt. Dropped des
5. Improved emelfm for better CLI support
6. Fixed user umount Debian Woody bug.
7. Updated webdata to use bcrypt
8. Updated file backup/restore to use bcrypt via "protect" boot option.
9. New image has been added: dsl-3.4-initrd.iso

I took a little side trip while working on 4.0 to make a much asked for version of DSL.

dsl-3.4-initrd.iso version has the KNOPPIX image packed in the initial ramdisk. This means it is very easy to setup a PXE DSL server.

It also means the entire system always loads into ram. You will need 128MB ram for this version. It will boot as a typical isolinux version and thereby eliminates the scan for the KNOPPIX image. So, by producing this image I have tried to satisfy two areas of improved use.

Note: The embedded install scripts are not aware of the new initrd version.

Enjoy,

Robert

lucky13

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Posted: July 03 2007,09:03

Need to fix a couple links on the download page.
dsl.geekery... Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)
http://mirror.psunit... Server not found

I was redirected when I went to www.geekery... and got 403 Forbidden when trying www.psunit... The rest of the links I tried were fine and I've downloaded 3.4. I'll burn it after I run.

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lucky13

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Posted: July 03 2007,09:23

I couldn't wait to burn it. Great job, Robert.

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sankarv

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Posted: July 03 2007,09:56

Good Job.

just informing...

the 3.4 version is not found in this mirror.

ftp://ftp.oss.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/

there is a typo in date in this mirror.

ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/

dsl-3.4.iso 51896320 Mon Jul 3 05:05:00 2006

waitin eagerly for version 4.0

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