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Damn Small Linux 0.8.2: a quick view
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Contributed by Chad Brandt
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Monday, 04 October 2004
In the past the only distribution booting on old x86 machines (486 boxes, 16 Megs of ram) was Debian. For some reason even Slackware still refuses to boot on these dear old computers. I chose to avoid a big distro and consider a mini-distribution.Damn Small Linux was the answer to my problem.
Damn Small Linux is a very light-weight distribution, reduced to the bone, but it still offers almost anything one can desire to browse the web, create and edit text documents, listen to some music files, do some irc and message people. It is perfect for a small usable terminal. More, as you will read, it comes with some server-oriented packages too and is ready to become something more than a mini-distribution.
This 0.8.2 version comes in a 50 megs ISO: it fits into an usb pen. In my case i just burnt the image on a cd-rw media and booted it.
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