Due to the goal of maximizing compatibility and including as many useful applications into the constraints of a 700MB CD size I am using zx compression on the ISO.  The trade-off here is that time to boot from the live image can be impacted.  It isn't that noticeable on more powerful hardware, but on light weight netbooks or virtual machines it can slow the process of booting down.  This does not affect boot time once DSL is installed on a hard drive.

I've noticed that a lot of people are installing DSL 2024 on pen drives and using them to boot their netbooks or running DSL in a virtual machine.  It would not be very difficult to provide an ISO that is optimized for these boot methods.  With an identical build but switching from zx compression to lz4 compression I've halved the boot time in Qemu.  The drawback is that the ISO is larger, 1084M vs. 632M for the zx version -- not really critical for most people who are interested in running DSL in a virtual machine or booting from USB.

So, is there interest?  Could I get people to report the difference in boot time?

I want too run dsl alongside Windows and Wubuntu linux on an UEFI based laptop, how can I make the .iso bootable on an UEFI system? Or is there another way around? I have tried installing it in BIOS mode and that went fine. When I switch to UEFI the grub config in Wubuntu can see the dsl installation but when I include it in grub and try to boot it it just says "error: you need to load the kernel first". TIA

Karstein

Base computer running Mint 21 64bit
Downloaded dsl2024 iso, used the USB maker, it wrote to the thumb drive, I tried to boot old laptop with it, old laptop says "no boot sector found on USB drive" and fails to boot. 

Tried twice, same issue. 

Help? 

I was an absolute fan of dsl back in the day, I still have all my old CDs, and I'm wanting to try this updated version so bad!!

Greats, my post is very simple:
I was downloaded first alpha for try (i used DSL many years ago), but when i'm trying to boot in an USB with Ventoy DSL don't boot. But if try to use iso in a VM (i use qemu) boot fine.
Someone was successfully boot using Ventoy

PD: i'll try to download second alpha

PPD: Sorry for my bad english,

Hi!

I am trying out the alpha - two motivations, a fun excuse to bring life back to my eeepc 701 + a desire to observe and maybe give feedback to the evolution of a new OS

A bit of context, I am not quite an intermediate linux user but not quite a novice either. I do quite a bit of python development on ubuntu in my day to day so I know my way around debian derivatives on desktop and in servers.

I have really liked the DSL2024 experience so far

The first feedback / observation I've noticed is that either there are few keyboard shortcuts that are common elsewhere, or they do not work on my eeepc keyboard - I know that the buttons work because the usual nano and tmux commands that rely on alt, shift, ctrl work.

Alt+ Tab also works, as does ctrl+w (sometimes), as does alt+f4

Could we perhaps add a way to add keyboard shortcuts? as well as a more comprehensive set of defaults

The "useful ubuntu shortcuts" are a good set to align to.

The biggest one I miss however is ctrl+alt+t which I regularly use to open a terminal - given that DSL will be so terminal and text editor heavy, I'd imagine a shortcut to quickly open up a new terminal is vital..

I will share more feedback as I get the time to play around a bit more - if there is already a way to do this, please let me know

Also - I recognize that the intent is to keep the installer as small as possible - so local docs/manuals are removed. Perhaps there is a way to make docs be served over the web? At work I have used github-pages to offer free doc hosting. Just a thought.

Just installed dsl-2024.alpha2 in Windows with Qemu. First thing I noted is that Firefox and Firefox-esr are missing from the repo. This cut works well and boots up in about 20 seconds on Qemu. Good work!!!

// meo

Fixed the "apt upgrade" breaking the menu issue.

Added syslinux-utils package to the iso.  Now DSL includes the isohybrid utility needed to install DSL onto a bootable USB drive.

Added a script to make a bootable USB drive either from the image on a liveCD or use the latest ISO from the DSL website.
(I would appreciate some feedback on this one.)

Modifies Conky so that it displays properly with 800x600 resolution.

Added the Network-Assistant utility which has been helpful on some computers with network driver issues.

Fixed the "brawer" typo that made it into some of the reviews.

Moved the "DSL File Restore" script to a more prominent place on the menu.

Miscellaneous small changes to reduce the iso size.

https://damnsmalllinux.org/2024-download.html

As someone who has used the original DSL I'm delighted to see this project revived. The initial interface looks nicely familiar. For such a compact distro I think it looks great and certainly doesn't "feel" like it's missing any of the basic core stuff, with a pleasant interface on top.

One thing I noticed in the installer is an option to include changes made to the Live desktop session! Nice touch.

I did find in my case that the default terminal wouldn't launch (the urxvt one does though!) - I haven't read the other threads on here yet so that might already be covered. I'm testing this in VirtualBox on a Manjaro KDE host.

I'll experiment with this and let you know how I get on. This will be handy to have on a USB stick so I'll include it on my Ventoy ones.


P.S. I didn't see any mention of "minimum" system requirements, but it looks like it could run (at least for basic tasks) in less than 256MB of RAM? I'll have to experiment with that. I guess 64MB might be a bit too small, though!

I've recently installed DSL 2024 on an old Asus Home Server (intel Atom) - thanks to all for the very slick distro!

However, I have been having issues with the AntiX Control Center and FluxxBox menus where some tools stop opening. In particular, the Manage Packages button does not start the app, and the Terminal menu item doesn't start Terminal. Both worked after the initial install, but the Terminal stopped opening after a few uses, and Manage Packages stopped working shortly after.

There's a chance it happened after running an apt upgrade, but I'm not certain of the timing.

Restarting session, FluxxBox, and the machine don't seem to fix it.

I can start a Terminal through File Manager, however.

Anyone else run into this and/or have suggestions as to what I messed up?

Has anyone tried to install this on a ChromeBook? They are cheap and the specs should be plenty powerful enough.... Just something I've tossed around. Never tried it so not sure if it is possible.