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DSL-Embedded - Linux on Windows
« on: August 06, 2005, 10:07:06 PM »
This is an awesome distro of linux that runs on windows. No, not a dual-boot but actually runs as a window program under Windows operating system. It is called Damn Small Linux (AKA- DSL).
 
The version that runs under Windows is DSL-Embedded. If you have windows xp or whatever and have a decent system (15.Ghz processor and 512+ MB RAM) there is no reason not to try this out! See my personal screenshot here.
 
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Where to download:
Current Full Mirror List:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/
http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/
http://mirror.psunit.com/dsl/
http://dsl.thegeekery.com
ftp://ftp.is.co.za/linux/distributions/damnsmall/ (South Africa)
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/damnsmall/ (Austria) also rsync and FTP
http://gulus.USherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/DamnSmallLinux/Location: (Quebec, Canada)
http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/ (Belgian)
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/ (Belgian)
http://planetmirror.com/pub/damnsmall/
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/damnsmall/
 
Rysnc Mirror:
rsync ftp.belnet.be::packages/damnsmalllinux/
 
Bittorrent Mirror:
http://www.tlm-project.org/torrents/damnsmall/
 
Other Sites with DSL iso\'s:
http://alien2thisworld.net/DamnSmallLinux/
http://mirror.linuxquestions.org/pub/distributions/damnsmall/
http://dslmirror.vectori.net
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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2005, 10:31:47 PM »
Thats damn cool. I\'ll have to try that tomorrow morning.
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« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2005, 07:08:33 AM »
That is DAMN cool. Does DSL require repartitioning of the hard drive or anything like that or does it just run like a Linux emulator?
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« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2005, 04:06:27 PM »
Like an emulator.
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« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2005, 06:03:47 PM »
Cool! What kind of resources it take up?
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2005, 09:06:00 PM »
Well, it is like running two OS\'s simultaneously, so it is considerablly CPU intensive.  You might get some lag on a system less than 1GHz processing frequency, and more RAM helps too.  It runs great on my office PC and it is an AMD Sempron 2800 with 740MB DDR RAM.  But no matter what you have, give DSL_Embedded a try and let us know how it goes.
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« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2005, 10:06:39 PM »
I have a gig of RAM in here so shouldn\'t be a problem.
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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2005, 08:45:30 PM »
OK everyone. A couple things about DSL.

#1. If you are going to run it in Windows make sure you download the EMBEDDED version of the program. The latest version is 5.1

#2. My keyboard (Microsoft Wireless) was not found by DSL so I have not been able to play with it to the extent that I would like to...

If anyone out there knows of another program like this (a Linux distro that runs in Windows) please message me.

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« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2005, 12:34:23 PM »
The dsl-embedded version 2.0 is out now.  You might want to give that a try.
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