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Damn Small Linux 2.2 has been released



DSL 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 (that's 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

Change log for 2.2
1. Updated dmix - added sync button for easy volume control
2. Updated Wallpaper.lua now has color chooser for background color
3. Updated pcitable to correctly support Broadcom b44 module
4. New extension check upon exit, will remind/allow user to save extensions downloaded to ramdisk before shutdown
5. Updated French keymaps
6. For maximum hardware support on older computers, kernel and modules were changed back to 2.4.26 including legacy scsi and zipdrive support
7. calcoo replaces xcalc
8. Updated and Enhanced index.html for Money websever
9. USB 2.0 boot time detection added to isolinux version
10. New waitusb boot time option
11. Updated mkfloppy - now prompts for device
12. Qemu version now supports boot time UCI loading
13. Ted help/manual now off loaded to current/documentation section of the download site
14. General cleanup of some unused directories and libraries, and modules
Download (MD5: f83002a228f3b985920a2b3338a0bcb8 dsl-2.2.iso)