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Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks

nick — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:09:07 +0000

Lifehacker has a Top 10 list of cool stuff to do with a USB flash drive. Numbers 9, 7, and 1 involve Live booting operating systems from them.

Battle of the Thumb Drive Linux Systems

nick — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:00:47 +0000

Lifehacker took four Linux distros, put them on USB flash drives, and ran a Lifehacker Faceoff.

Today we’re detailing four no-install distributions—Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Xubuntu, and Fedora—and helping you decide which might work for that spare thumb drive you’ve got lying around, or as just a part of your multi-gig monster stick.

Heard at SCALE 6x: Damn Small Linux moving to Firefox 2

nick — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:09:12 +0000

CLICK has news that DSL will get Firefox 2.

Firefox in DSL will move from the current version 1 to the GTK 1 version of Firefox 2. Thats a big deal because a lot of Web sites require at least Firefox 1.5 for full functionality. It means, for one thing that itll be possible to use Google Docs and Spreadsheets with Damn Small Linux.

Damn Small Linux Makes Darn Big Impression – Small Distro, Big Packages

nick — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:10:22 +0000

LinuxPlanet has a review of Damn Small Linux.

At a mere 50MB, Damn Small Linux DSL seems like it would be more at home in the realm of rescue disks instead of Desktop OSs. After booting up into full graphical mode, you may be hooked on this tiny distribution forever. I am impressed with the number of applications and the fact that DSL has two choices for graphical interfaces Window Managers: Fluxbox and jwm see Figures 1 and 2. DSL is based on the Debian Linux distribution.

19″ Linux Digital Photo Frame Kit

nick — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:29:19 +0000

LXer has a link to this digital photo frame kit running Damn Small Linux. It includes WIFI, so you can probably SSH into you photo frame.

GOSHEN, Ind. – RedPost inc., an Indiana-based tech startup, today announced the launch of RedPost/Kit, a do-it-yourself digital photo frame kit that comes with everything you need to get up and running.

Damn Small Linux The Portable Desktop

nick — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:29:05 +0000

Wired’s Compiler blog has a brief overview of Damn Small Linux.

We’ve written about portable apps quite a number of times in the past, but why bother with just apps when there’s a whole OS that’ll fit on a 50MB USB stick? Damn Small Linux, sometimes abbreviated DSL, is a 50MB mini desktop Linux distribution.

Damn Small Linux book set for July

nick — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:27:34 +0000

CLICK brings news about a new book all about Damn Small Linux. This will be the first LiveCD book for a distro other than Knoppix, or LiveCDs in general (at least that I know of).

Damn Small Linux 3.3 Released

nick — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:31:52 +0000

DistroWatch has the announcement, also check out the official changelog.

Moka5: Virtualization in Your Pocket

nick — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:08:21 +0000

Informit.com checks out Moka5.

I’ve got Damn Small Linux (DSL) running, trying to debug a thorny UNIX application issue. And I’m doing all of this from my iPod Photo.

Review of Damn Small Linux 3.2

nick — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:43:22 +0000

Open Addict reviews Damn Small Linux 3.2.

Under the hood, DSL features the 2.4.26 kernel compiled with SMP support. The system had no trouble recognizing the hardware on our test laptop and booted to the desktop in around 30 seconds. DSL is committed to remaining useable on older hardware. In fact the minimum system requirements for this distro are just a 486DX with 16MB of Ram.

Damn Small Linux 3.3 RC1 Screenshots

nick — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:36:51 +0000

LinuxQuesitons has screenshots of Damn Small Linux 3.3 RC1.

A Closer Look at Damn Small Linux

nick — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:50:05 +0000

Linux.Sys-Con.com has a in-depth guide about Damn Small Linux. Included is everything from downloading and burning the distro to a CD, to making LiveUSB flash drive, getting wireless working, and using various apps.

Discover Linux the safe way – WhatPC?

nick — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:56:25 +0000

WhatPC has an introduction to open source, Linux, and LiveCDs using Damn Small Linux.

We will explain how to try Linux by running the operating system from a CD, not the hard disk, so there’s no need to abandon Windows.

The Linux Newbie: How to Pick a Linux Distro: LiveCD Edition

nick — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:58:14 +0000

The Linux Newbie compares 11 different LiveCDs in this article. One interesting piece of information included is boot times for each of the LiveCDs.

A Closer Look at Damn Small Linux

nick — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:06:10 +0000

LINUX.SYS-CON.COM dives into the world of Damn Small Linux, and describes some of the more interesting uses of this great lightweight LiveCD.

In this article you will learn how to turn a blank CD and an inexpensive USB keydrive into a powerful, portable, take-along operating system complete with modern applications like Firefox, a Web server, and multimedia tools. All this can be done using free Open Source Linux software.

DSL 3.0 Video

nick — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:54:02 +0000

OSVids.com has a new video of Damn Small Linux 3.0.

DSL 3.0 now stable

nick — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:04:06 +0000

Damn Small Linux 3.0 is out! Two major changes include the addition of SSHFS and UnionFS. Check out all the changes here.

Damn Small Linux sneaks up on v3.0

nick — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:37:53 +0000

DesktopLinux researches all the new stuff in the new Damn Small Linux release.

Remastering DSL: A Short HOWTO with a Long Preamble

nick — Sat, 27 May 2006 18:47:37 +0000

Linux Forums has a good article on remastering Damn Small Linux.

Life’s too short for Linux, or so David Fearon thought until he needed an OS in a rush

nick — Tue, 23 May 2006 18:52:58 +0000

This article from PC Pro has some pretty opinionated ideas about which OS is the best to get work done in, and while I don’t agree with many of them, the author does have some nice things to say about DSL and SLAX.