All applications have been chosen for the best balance of functionality, size and speed. But over time Damn Small Linux grew into a community project with thousands of development hours put into refinements including a fully automated remote and local application installation system and a very versatile backup and restore system which may be used with any writable media including a USB device, floppy disk, or a hard drive.ĭSL has a nearly complete desktop, and a tiny core of command line tools. It was at first just a personal tool/toy. Modularly grow - DSL is highly extendable without the need to customizeĭSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD.Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!).Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram.
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Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install.Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install".Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows).Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD).Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.ĭamn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:
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