Working nicely in QEMU

[nortti]

Been trying out the new DSL in Qemu, it's generally working really nicely. I've been missing this kind of fully featured live CD environment for a while now, so it's neat to see DSL come back to fill that void. This post is currently being typed from within the Damn Small Linux 2024 environment.

I have had two issues on it thus far. First one is the lack of a Finnish keyboard layout option, but I presume it will not be that hard to create my own image with it included. Second is that BadWolf seems to crash sometimes, as noted by some other users here. It doesn't seem to be consistent -- I lost the first version of this post trying to check the AntiX minimum processor requirements, but after starting it from a terminal (so that I'd see what gets printed to stderr on crash, if anything) and trying to navigate to the same page it did not crash.

Since AntiX seems to support down to Pentium II, I'll try to test DSL also on my Thinkpad T23 at some point and report back.

[John]

Thank you for giving it a spin!

Regarding setting up Finnish, try running the "DSL File Restore" script (found under the Applications -> Distro Tools menu). This will restore many of the files that I had to take out of the iso to make it fit inside 700MB.

I believe finish is included in the original antiX files. You should be able to run "locale-antix" after that to configure the system to use Finnish. Please let me know how it goes. I am spoiled by being a native English speaker so I have no experience setting up alternative languages.

[nortti]

Turns out you can change the keyboard layout to Finnish even without the DSL File Restore script. All the keyboard layouts are shipped already on the CD, and I was just confused by the keyboard layout configuration dialog: when it only shows US keyboard in the list, that means you currently only have US keyboard selected, not that US keyboard is the only choice you have. Pressing the + button gives me ability to select any keyboard layout I want.