A bit of preamble on me; I started using old DSL around a year ago since I had picked up a ARM Laboratories 340S8 (brand doesn't matter, in what research I have done this laptop was sold under 100000000 different names but atleast the model number stayed the same) running a Tulatin P3 1GHz with ATI Rage LT Pro (8MB) and 2x 256MB of SDRAM. I researched multiple distros looking for a decent one that would pair nicely to dualboot and I found DSL, I liked the premise so on eBay I bought the book to research more myself and I loved the book and the OS; as the OS was fast and had a decent amount of software support, while the book went into all the little details on how the OS worked and the core philosophy which I really enjoyed. I was thrilled when I saw today that on distrowatch not only was DSL on the rise surpassing OS's like void and only being a couple of spots away from DSL's spiritual successor TinyCore but to also find the project revived now with a new AntiX coat of paint! Now for the question, will 2024 DSL get the same book treatment that the original DSL got? I would personally love to see one since I found it immensely useful since it helped me learn linux and its' inter-workings even more since upto that point I had only used Endeavor (I currently use Debian and I'm trying to swap to AntiX but with LXDE) and I think the DSL book was a great teaching tool and just a good read in general and that a new one would be a great idea. Just to see how the community would be open to the idea of a new DSL book there is a poll below to see who would be interested in buying a copy if it where to get made.

Hey

so im running Linux Mint on my chromebook now native and would like to try DSL, ive flashed the USB with the distro image and plugged in the USB and booted from it, but i get this error message:


failed: verify it contains a 64-bit UEFI OS

how it looks in the USB i used etcher to burn the image:

I tried to use man pages for many commands such as apt and ping, but it's showing "no manual entry for (command)". I am new to Linux and would appreciate any help regarding how fix this issue. I really want to use the man pages. And this is a fresh install of DSL 2024.

Hello,

DSL is totally new to me, so I feel like being in the dark.

I've run live and then installed DSL on my old Pentium II laptop, but I've some doubts:

1. "Ensure to be already connected to the net before running the installer..."
    As a newbie, I don't know how a computer with a blank disk can be already connected to any net.
    So I didn't connect it to any network and performed a basic installation.
    Hope I haven't lost anything.

2. "To use a separate boot partition you need our cli installer"
    Fine, where is it? What's its name? Is it on the CD? Or how do I get it?

3. My laptop used to run RedHat 8 and then Fedora 4. Both of them provided the siliconmotion video driver.
    Since it's missing in the distro, I guess it's impossible to run X unless I install that driver.
    To do that I need to build it by gcc.
    How do I get and properly install the gcc package, if any?

4. In fact I have to modify Grub to start the o.s. console. For who have unsupported video cards, to start the system at the command line level would be a very appreciated option.
    And what about the old /etc/inittab file? How to modify runlevels manually?

5. Man pages are missing and I couldn't find any up-to-date on-line help, so I feel totally blind.
    How do I get man pages?

Thank you so much in advance.

I wanted to make use of a legacy hp t5000 series thin client pc, very weak in performance, it using Crusoe CPU, 64mb ram, 32mb flash, windows CE. Net 4.20 ,so i wanted to run Linux, i have tried slax, kernel panic ,damn small Linux couldn't load my wireless mouse drivers at last i had to try the old precise puppy 5.3 non pae, it took took long to reach the full desktop and the cpu usage was all red, couldn't do anything, is that because of small memory or the CPU can only execute one code at a time

Dumb question, maybe, but how can I obtain and install the Radeon 600 series gpu driver?
My resolution is extreme and unchangable and my vision is quite weak. Many thanks for
any help.

I want to install DSL in my /sda4. I had there slitaz installed. The installation went fine.
But when I boot the computer I got an error message:
"error no such devise 2l0a................. "
"error file /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz not found

Grup still has slitaz recognized in that partition. When I go to Grub to edit
the last line says:

"linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz root=/dev/sda4 "

I don't know much about Grup. But it seems that I have to change the last line
and where it said /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.55-slitaz change it to the DSL image to boot.
If that is the case: What do I have to write there?

Don't mind to re-install. But the part where it said where to put Grub it was
not clear to me. I left on the default, MBR

I would appreciated some help.

I've tried it on my Acer Aspire One 522, so a real system, not virtualisation.

You've updated all the packages; thanks.

Locale en_CA is supposed to be included on the ISO, but it isn't.

On the first boot screen, pressing F3 brings up a list of cities to choose the time zone. Some cities have an asterisk after their name, but others don't. What's the difference?

The installer marks a swap partition as file system type 83 rather than the correct 82.

In the Control Centre (thanks for the correct spelling, BTW ), under Network, when choosing Select Wifi Application, I can't choose Connman: the mouse jumps back to Ceni. However, the button marked Wifi Connect starts Connman anyway, and the button under that starts Ceni, so perhaps Select Wifi Application is unnecessary anyway.

When I installed firefox-esr, it appeared in the Applications menu, but frozen-bubble and libreoffice-writer didn't.

I get the following error message after using apt install, but the installation succeeds anyway. This bug seems to originate with AntiX, so you might want to forward it to them:

(desktop-menu:8512): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 17:24:22.083: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
Writing Menu: jwm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 477, in <module>
    build_menu()
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 313, in build_menu
    process_menu(menu)
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 219, in process_menu
    icon = find_icon(entry) or default_folder_icon
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 148, in find_icon
    if icon_theme.lookup_icon(appicon, icon_size, 0) and not no_gtk:
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lookup_icon'

Edit: Enhancement request: show the battery status in conky.

Both versions of Beta 3 just boot to grub from USB; strangely, the Vbox version boots fine in vbox!

• Added a significantly improved Bash USB installer that supports data persistence and conserves space on the USB drive (no more DD method!).
  
• Included xserver-xorg-video-intel to support native resolution on some EEE PCs and other machines.
  
• Created a custom JWM theme color that matches the default in Fluxbox.
  
• Fixed a terminal launch bug in zzzFM.
  
• Implemented a text mode option at boot to correct a known bug inherited from runit/antiX.
  
• Enhanced the Slimski login with dialog to improve user-friendliness.