Damn Small Linux

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    What is Damn Small Linux?

    Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.

    Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:

    * Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
    * Boot from a USB pen drive
    * Boot from within a host operating system (thats right, it can run *inside* Windows)
    * Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
    * Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
    * Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
    * Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
    * Modularly grow -- DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

    DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD. But over time, Damn Small Linux grew into a community project with hundreds 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 hard drive, a floppy drive, or a USB device.
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    Discontinued

    The project seems to be no longer updated (No release candidate since 2012, no stable release since 2008), but it still fully works.

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    Platform details

    Mac: Live CD, Live USB
    Windows: Live CD, Live USB
    Linux: Live CD, Live USB

    Tags

    • live-cd
    • Operating System
    • Linux Distro
    • unix

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    Damn Small Linux was added to AlternativeTo by Valentin on Nov 9, 2009 and this page was last updated Nov 2, 2017. Damn Small Linux is sometimes referred to as DSL.

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