Here is some info on D. Small Linux found at http://www.damnsmalllinux.or= g/ What is Damn Small Linux? Damn Small Linux is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux=20 distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional = and=20 easy to use desktop. =20 Why? Because having a working Linux desktop distro on a 50 mb bootable busine= ss=20 card CD is just too cool not to do. =20 Screenshot? damnsmalllinux-0.1=A0=A0right here damnsmalllinux-0.3=A0=A01=A02=A03=A04=A05=A06=A07=A08 damnsmalllinux-0.3.9 (playing mpegs!)=A0=A01=A02 damnsmalllinux-0.3.10 (VNC client shot)=A0=A01 damnsmalllinux-0.3.11 (running Firebird)=A0=A01 damnsmalllinux-0.4.2 (running Xpaint, XzGV, emelFM, and Sylphed)=A0=A01 damnsmalllinux-0.4.3 (showing off desktop icons)=A0=A01 damnsmalllinux-0.4.4 =A0=A01 damnsmalllinux-0.4.5: =A0=A0=A0=A0new baby Tux =A0=A0=A0=A0new theme, Oneko & playing Mpg =A0=A0=A0=A0appfest, including patched Dillo damnsmalllinux-0.4.7: =A0=A0=A0=A0New apps; X Pacman, Rdesktop, FireBird 0.6.1 damnsmalllinux-0.4.8: =A0=A0=A0=A0Playing a music CD while running in RAM damnsmalllinux-0.4.10: =A0=A0=A0=A0Playing w/TuxNES, using Nirc, editing w/Nano, and Surfing w/= Firebird 0.7 damnsmalllinux-0.5.1: =A0=A0=A0=A0SciTe, Apsfilter, GostScript, and Ted damnsmalllinux-0.5.2: =A0=A0=A0=A0Showing MC, BashBurn, and gTuxnes damnsmalllinux-0.5.3.1: =A0=A0=A0=A0gPhone and Monkey webserver in action =20 What does it have? Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop, including XMMS (MP3, and= =20 MPEG), FTP client, Dillo web browser, links-hacked web browser, spreadshe= et,=20 Sylpheed email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor (Ted-GTK), four= =20 editors (SciTe, nVi, Zile [emacs clone], and Nano [Pico clone]), graphics= =20 editing and viewing (Xpaint, and xzgv), Xpdf, emelFM (file manager), Naim= =20 (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, Rdesktop, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP clie= nt,=20 PPP, PPPoE (ADSL), a web server, calculator, generic and GhostScript prin= ter=20 support, NFS, Fluxbox window manager, games, system monitoring apps, a ho= st=20 of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support. For more informat= ion=20 check out the applications=A0pages. =20 If you like DSL you can install it on your hard drive. Because all the=20 applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older=20 hardware. =20 My goal in creating Damn Small Linux is to have enough tools and toys on= a=20 business card sized CD to get work done *and* have some fun. =20 How? I started with model_k, which did an excellent distillation of Knoppix d= own=20 to 33 megabytes.=A0 From there I went through and removed what I could,=20 including Locals and documentation, I know, that's not a good thing, but = I=20 had to make room. =20 As many know Knoppix is based on Debian which really made my task a lot=20 easier, but the applications on the CD are not pure Debian.=A0 I am using= a few=20 apps that are not available via apt-get. =20 The applications I am using are the best compromises I could find betwee= n=20 function and size. =20 To make room I had to remove the entire dpkg database structure.=A0 But = don't=20 freak out, I saved it for folks who want to try to remaster from my iso. =20 X? It is a combo of Debian packages and the Kdrive Xvesa and Xfbdev servers= =2E=A0 It=20 works beautifully on most computers but it runs slower than what most Lin= ux=20 users are use to.=A0 That's the cost of keeping it all small and lite. =20 ToDo? Clean up and refine. =20 Where can I download it from? :-)=A0go here. =20 My email address is: john _at_ damnsmalllinux.org (please go to the=A0user forum=A0for tech questions) =20 =20 On Tuesday 03 February 2004 07:35 pm, Jeff Garland said: ~ Hi all - ~ ~ My daughter's school has a number of donated IBM 600E laptops with 32M = RAM ~ that are used in her class to help teach typing. Only one problem -- t= hey ~ aren't turned on when the kids are using them. Obviously this is a pathetic ~ arrangement only slightly better than the kids using paper keyboards... ~ ~ Anyway, they gave me one to check and see if there would be any possibi= lity of ~ getting them working. Happily I have a compatible power supply -- = the school ~ doesn't have any, but that's a different issue. When I plugged= it in the ~ machine booted up to Win98 and explorer promptly crashed. Well that just gave ~ me an excuse to run Linux, which is what I was thinking anyway :-) ~ ~ So I put in my Knoppix 3.2 disk and she booted right up -- after 10 min= utes ~ :-( And unfortunately, it doesn't include KTouch which is the main pro= gram ~ I'd like to show them. So... ~ ~ I'm looking for advice on a small, bootable distribution that might inc= lude ~ KTouch. A second option would be for me to get permission to wipe the drive ~ and install Linux, but I'm guessing I still might need something stripped down ~ to work well on this machine -- so any suggestions on th= is would be ~ appreciated as well. DamnSmallLinux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) looks ~ like it might be a good place t= o start, but I was hoping not to tinker too much... ~ ~ Thx, ~ ~ Jeff ~ --------------------------------------------------- ~ PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us ~ To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: ~ http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ~ --=20 <:-)~MIKE~(-:> This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spa= m or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blo= cked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE = with every account.=20 http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net