Some time ago I tried to use WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to install Linux on my Windows 11 laptop. The first time I was just able to install Ubuntu headless (no gui in other words). Now WSL 2, an updated version is available, is able to handle a GUI also. The internet are swarmed with HOWTO's about this. So I decided to give it a try since Kali Linux, a distro I've been using for some years, is among the Linux Distributions that has cooperated with Microsoft to make it easier to install on later editions of Windows. No I haven't tried to hack any Corporations or governmental institutions (even if an unnamed institution is acting like a "Big Brother" all over the world). I'm purely a White Hat (if you notice any speck on my hat it's just dust ;-)). I have been programming a lot of Python (nice guy that Guido van Rossum) on it since it contains a lot of Python libraries and therefore supports most any project I've taken on. To make a long story short I now have the latest Kali Linux fully functional on my laptop that was designed for Windows. I find that kind of an impressive move of Microsoft. So why bring this up here? Well in the WSL documentation it says that ANY Linux distro could be made to work the same way by importing a tar file of it (I assume they mean a tar-ball). Since I just have made it work with Kali Linux, a pretty big distro, and I'm just kind of enjoying the victory over my laptop when it comes to host a Linux Distribution in a way that is far better than using any kind of virtualization software, I haven't checked the statement that ANY Linux Distro could be installed using this subsystem. I think it would be amazing if DSL-2024 could be installed this way but I have to investigate it further. At least Kali Linux works as if it was installed on the "bare bones" on this computer.

// meo

Just got a shipment of blank CDs with the logo on it and I really like the way they look.

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So I installed both Synaptic and Idle (Tkinter IDE for python) via apt and did not see any kind of menu entry for either. Is this something I must add for myself with Openbox/JWM? If so, where/which config files? TIA

Could we PLEASE have an ISO that is capable of booting on an UEFI computer? I want to run dsl alongside Windows 11 and a variant of Ubuntu but then I have to have GPT disks and UEFI boot..

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Hello,

I am new to DSL but not necessarily running Linux on virtualbox

I have tried every mode, ("virtual box video", "dsl 2023...." etc), 32 bit and 64 bit, have VB guest additions installed, etc. But it keeps ending up on the desktop image with nothing else. Nothing to click on, nor key combinations bringing up anything. 

Interestingly, video safe mode at least brings a red menu bar at the bottom and the computer details in the far right corner, thought I am not sure why. Missed getting s screenshot of it and trying to bring it up again didn't work because it got an out of memory error.

I am on windows 11, Virtual Box 7.0 btw. I also tried both 32 bit and 64 bit mode for the "virtual box video" mode 

Halp

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As it stands right now, only the iso is available for download. After doing some research, DSL has never had a public code repository. I understand that DSL is just a soup of very lightweight open source/free utils and programs combined together. But, do you plan to keep DSL private or would you be open to having other people make contributions to DSL?
Why am I asking this? Because I am very interested to contribute in this project.
Please let me know if i said anything wrong/incorrect.

Hey, I would like to say I'm brand new to DSL. I have been trying it out on VirtualBox, and just by my first impressions, I'm really liking it so far! But there is this really annoying issue where it always defaults to 800x600 in VirtualBox. I mean, I can change the resolution using the Screen Layout Editor (ArandR) and I can save that layout script that (which just calls xrandr), and I could use crontab or edit rc.local to call that script but I'm wondering if there is a much better way to do this? I did try the VirtualBox boot option and it did not do anything. I even tried looking this up but most of the information on DSL is pertaining to the older releases. Any tips, tricks, links, guides, etc. would be great!

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