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Title: Damn Small Linux
Post by: mimsmall on November 24, 2004, 10:14:14 am

Have you tried it on your Zaurus?
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/)

Have you tried other small distros?

Title: Damn Small Linux
Post by: Mickeyl on November 24, 2004, 10:39:01 am

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Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux distribution.

50MB? *Cough* This is not what I would call damn small. The OZ bootstrap image for collie is ~5 MB.

Title: Damn Small Linux
Post by: woverin on November 24, 2004, 11:49:06 am

well, although 5mb distro is cool but is it really practical ?
Do you use only 5mb without any accompany software ?
Thanks John for his brilliant DSL. 50MB filled with quality software.
It runs on my 486dx2 66mhz + 32mb of ram.

Title: Damn Small Linux
Post by: cosinux on November 24, 2004, 02:41:03 pm

I guess DSL has ~ 200MB uncompressed. (small "version" of Knoppix)

Title: Damn Small Linux
Post by: TonyOlsen on November 24, 2004, 03:50:15 pm

Wow!! Now THAT is COOL!!!      

Now all I need to do is buy a few of those 50 MB credit card sized CD-Rs!  This take Knoppix to a whole new level!

Thanks for passing this on!

Title: Damn Small Linux
Post by: TonyOlsen on November 24, 2004, 07:21:23 pm

I looked over the DSL website, but I didn't find a version of DSL compiled for ARM XScale processors.  It looks like DSL is an optimized build of Intel x86 Linux executables, and doesn't work on any other Computer systems (Mac, Unix, XScale ARM, etc) except for Intel x86.

So... it doesn't look like it would work with the Zaurus... unless someone recompiles all of the source code used to create each piece of the DSL image.  Also, the final build may be much bigger or smaller than the current 50 MB DSL build.

Title: Damn Small Linux
Post by: byzantium on December 07, 2004, 04:48:48 pm

Hi, this topic has been moved to Sharp ROMs as it applies to more than just the 6000L.

cheers
byz