User Feedback :: Steal a great idea from Puppy Linux



Really not sure how much this would be used. We already have mkmydsl and many users are now moving more towards usb/flash drives as opposed to CD's. The cool thing is that you can run DSL with some programs on even a 64mb USB drive.

Nice option for Puppy but I think DSL has already passed it by.  :)

Chris
I beg to differ. While USB/CF might be more convientent, loosing it is a bitch. Cd's are like .05 cents in 50 packs, with 700 megs, compared to a 128 meg usb/cf that still cost like 10~40 each.
Well, you can already run DSL in toram mode to free up the cd and burn with bashburn or cdrecord. So really, it already has the ability to burn a multisession CD, which is what Puppy is doing from what I understand.
Quote (davide @ Mar. 09 2005,11:43)
just wondering: if you use a usb-stick based DSl, and store your settings files on the same device isn't it the same (more or less)?

USB doesn't always boot and this aproach allows me to customize my DSL a bit.  Also, I thought you couldn't write to the root files on the USB if you booted from there.
I looked at puppy and I liked the idea.  The "puppy unleashed" version with gcc and make isn't available yet, so I can't speak to the final functionality, but I thought the idea was sound, especially for remastering.  You can tweak and adjust everything just the way you want it, then save.  What's easier than shutting down and having the system save everything for you on the same disk you started with?  I love the dsl files we have for easy instalation, but it would be so sweat to be able to compile my own and then save the system the way I had it running rather than making dsl files.

the issues I see are:

1) because you're writing new tracks, you never really erase, you add a new copy of the changed files.  That's got to build up after a while.

2) because you never really erase, how can you remove things from a remaster to save space?

3) the lack of packages like dsl has makes installing programs more difficult under puppy.  without gcc you can't even compile your own (yet).

4) if you copy a multitrack data cd, does it put everything onto one track and remove duplicates?
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