Hey DSL community, I've recently looked at the DSL page @ Distrowatch.org I like to go on there once in awhile to see what is new since i love to tinker. I've used DSL before the first versions back in 2010 or so I believe and i think DSL stopped uploading updates in 2008 I believe correct me if I'm wrong. So the project was already abandoned when i tried it but I didn't think it was bad so when i seen you guys are bringing the project back i instantly want to give it a go but I have a question before I try and boot, does DSL support safe boot out of the box? or am I going to have to configure it? I want to install it on a old laptop I have its one of my tinker laptops but I'd love to tinker around with it break it/fix it repeat. Maybe I'll come across some bugs that need to be fixed if so ill come back and let you fellas know.

After trying out many other Linux distros I successfully installed DSL 2024 on my old clunker of a laptop (HP Pavilion with 1 GB RAM and AMD Athlon X2). WLAN and even audio is working out of the box. Some other distros didn't even start. Thanks!

PS: I just checked, the laptop came out in 2006 and originally it had Windows Vista on it. And it was a slow poke even back then if you ask me.

Is there a simple way to install PowerShell on DSL running on ProxMox on an intel processor ?

thanks for any guidance and support  

Steve

Downloaded as soon as a member of the Puppy Linux forum informed us via post that the project was back in full swing.

I have it running nicely using a QEMU virtual machine hosted by F96-CE_4 (upgraded Puppy Linux Fossapup64).

Download size was 666 M........must be fate.......

Next test run on a bare metal WinXP era Dell Optiplex tower. Single core CPU 2 G RAM circa 2002-2004 build year.

Good Show !!

I would like to install & use dsl from a usb stick but i'm not sure how to setup persistance so that files are saved etc.

i have a 128gb usb stick that has the live image on & i can boot into that and use as normal but i'd like to be able to use it as a fully portable system without the need to install
to hard drive

I've been investigating lightweight programs that run well on limited resource systems for a long while now.  Was excited to see a new version of DSL and very curious to see which applications it would include.  I love some of the choices such as using AntiX as a starting point and including programs like nano and sylpheed.  Thought it might be fun to start a thread to discuss other lightweight applications that should work well on older computers.

Some of the programs I like are sdlbook and pdftxt for PDF viewing, diffh for graphically displaying differences from diff, abc2midi and abcm2ps for music creation, picaxo (lightweight graphics viewer using SDL), Netrider or Fifth (webkit based web browsers) and DPlus web browser (Dillo fork). sdcv (command line dictionary program, a fork removes glib dependency), ckpass (curses front end to view keepass information), grafx2 or lodepaint (graphics editors), fm (SDL based file manager), flrec/sox (audio player/recorder), nbsdgames (more games along the lines of bsdgames).  There are several others I enjoy building from source and working with too.

I've been trying to move away from heavier GUI toolkits such as GTK and Qt and switch to more lightweight alternatives like FLTK, SDL, Raylib and/or BSDCurses.  Would be curious to hear about other people's favorite lightweight programs.

Hello, I am running DSL on a old 04' Dell Inspiron 9200 (Pentium M 1.7Ghz with ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro and 2GB of DDR1 333mhz) and for some reason I am stuck at a resolution of 1440x900. I go into ArandR to change the res and 1440x900 is the best it gives me. (The screen installed is a WUXGA 60hz 1920x1200). Any Ideas as to how to use my full resolution? Is it potentially a driver issue with the 9600?

i have installed dsl on virtualbox & everything is working except i can't add guest additions to enable shared folders etc.?

does anyone have any suggestions

I would like to be able to install dsl to a usb stick so have fully installed os to use on multiple pc's
is this possible? & if so how would i go about achieving this 

Hello dear John,

I use the last version of DSL, and it is a very good distro ;-).
So, a big THANK TO YOU, JOHN !

Very great idea to offer us the mutt e-mail client.
I have tested it and, it'ld seem that libsasl2-modules (libsasl2-modules - Cyrus SASL - pluggable authentication modules) is needed to sent a mail. This package offers the commons authenticators (TEXT, PLAIN, LOGIN,...).
In fact, before libsasl2-modules is installed, i was unable to send a message.
After libsasl2-modules's installation, the sending is OK.

Can I ask you to provide the installation of this package during the next release?

Other point: Cli-Aptix
When updating with Apt Update, APT returns the following alert:
"Checking source files ...
It appears that at least one list file is missing"

Last point: the default theme
The default theme is well suited to the default wallpaper.
But, it is too dark and it is not possible to read the Firefox menus, for example.

with all my friendships

Phil

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Bonjour cher John,

Très bonne idée de nous proposer le client e-mail mutt.
Je l'ai testé et il semble que libsasl2-modules soit nécessaire pour envoyer un courrier. Ce paquet propose les authentificateurs communs (PLAIN, TEXT, LOGIN,...).
En fait, avant que libsasl2-modules ne soit installé, je n'ai pas pu envoyer de message.
Après l'installation de Libsasl2-Modules, l'envoi est OK.

Puis-je te demander de prévoir l'installation de ce paquet lors de la prochaine release ?

Autre point : CLI-APTIX
Lors de la mise à jour avec apt update, apt renvoie l'alerte suivante :
"Checking source files ...
It appears that at least one list file is missing"

Dernier point : le thème par défaut
Le thème par défaut est bien adapté au fond d'écran par défaut.
Mais, il est trop sombre et il n'est pas possible de lire les menus de Firefox, par exemple.

Avec toutes mes amitiés.