Re: [Pan-users] pan 0.133 extension for Damsmalllinux in repo

[Phil Grundig]

> 

> Well, kewl! Thank you, Phil. I don't currently have a box running DSL,
> but I do go back to ver 0.35 a long time ago.
> 
Kurt, you might want to look at the current stable dsl.  These days it has 
firefox-2 and a fully drag and drop desktop, still a 50MB download.  You can 
get the old fluxbox and xtdesktop back by booting with the "classic" bootcode 
(plus use the "dma" and "toram" bootcodes for any non-ancient machine.  It's 
still the fastest desktop system around.  Puppy comes close but uses squashfs 
and is thus is slightly more resource intensive on old hardware.  dsl will 
still work on ancient hardware (very slowly on certain 486!).

A look at the extensions available (esp in testing) will show there's a lot of 
currently useful stuff that will still run on it: wireshark, xine, mplayer and 
mencoder, recent version loop-aes 3.x, gnupg-2, etc etc

dsl is still very popular, but the forum activity does not reflect that 
situation at the moment - I hear there are some project administrative issues.

Its main problem is the lack of new hardware drivers for the 2.4.31 kernel.