[wlug] Re: 'Damn Small Linux' is Back - But Bigger

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:30:07 +1300, Peter Reutemann quoted:

'Back in 2006 Slashdot reported on a 50-megabyte "micro" distro called Damn Small Linux.'

Why 50MB? Because that was about the limit of those “business-card” CDs you could get, back in the day. I don’t think the drives can handle them now. At least, the drives that are still in use.

I actually used DSL back in the day...

I still have copies of version 4.4.10 from 2009. I remember an item in some PC magazine marvelling at the fact that a single Linux installation could boot on any number of different hardware configurations, when a Windows install would have conniptions if you tried to move it to a different machine.