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DSL remake

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curaga:
http://dslr.dimakrasner.com/


--- Quote ---DSLR is a small, "live" Linux-libre distribution in the spirit of Damn Small Linux, targeted at advanced users. It's a lightweight operating system for i686 and x86_64, which comes pre-loaded with many useful applications and breathes new life into nostalgic applications and old hardware.
--- End quote ---

Seems to be entirely new people. An interesting mix of gtk1/64-bit/musl/static.

Lee:
Interesting development.  Thanks for the tip.

In the  comparison with Tiny Core, they mention using GTK+ instead of FLTK, toybox instead of BusyBox and musl instead of uClibc.  I'm not familiar with those alternatives but I wonder what might be the implication of each of those choices?  Is it just a matter of size vs features?

I'll have to fire it up in a vm this weekend... but I somehow doubt I'll be adopting it as a day-to-day replacement for Core.    ;)

gerald_clark:
Well, you will have to download it first, and the download speed is horribly slow, about 300K/minute.

bmarkus:
There is a comparison to TC on their WEB saying TC is using  uClibc which is wrong.

curaga:
Yes, I posted to their irc about uclibc earlier today.

@Lee

Gtk1 has long been dead, while fltk is actively maintained (for some values of actively ;)). Toybox is mainly a license alternative by people who didn't like Busybox being GPL; I believe it has less features still.

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