14 DAY TRIAL // Damn Small Linux (DSL) 4.4.3, the versatile mini desktop Linux distribution, was announced today by its maintainer, Robert Shingledecker. This new version introduces a handful of system modifications:
￭ editor.lua was replaced by the Fltk editor; ￭ calculator.lua was replaced by flminicalc; ￭ exit.lua was replaced by dslexit; ￭ /etc/filesystems was updated; ￭ better hostname support; ￭ minirt24.gz was updated to support knoppix_dir and toram; ￭ new bootfloppy; ￭ many unused files were removed.
Below is a list with files that have changed in this release:
.jwmrc .fluxbox/menu .dfminfo .dfmdesk/Exit .dfmdesk/Apps/Office/Calculator .dfmdesk/Apps/Editors/notepad
While being powered by JWM (Joe's Window Manager), Damn Small Linux 4.4.3 includes powerful and useful applications for daily usage. Among these applications, we could notice the popular Dillo, Netrik and Firefox web browsers, the Sylpheed e-mail client, Xzgv image viewer, Xpaint photo editor and the emelFM file manager. Below is a detailed list with more great applications that can be found inside DSL:
￭ XMMS (mp3, ogg, mpeg, cd audio) ￭ mp321 ￭ ogg123 ￭ Vim, an enhanced Vi ￭ Assorted Xbase utilities (Xcalc etc.) ￭ ssh and sshd ￭ betaftpd, a very small FTP daemon ￭ Sqlite, a small and very fast SQL database engine ￭ Nano, console text editor ￭ Monkey web server ￭ MS Office Viewer ￭ Postscript Viewer ￭ AxY FTP ￭ Telnet client ￭ Microcom ￭ Midnight Commander ￭ Bash Burn, a CD/DVD burning utility ￭ Fast and Light GUI Admin tools ￭ VNC viewer ￭ Rdesktop
Damn Small Linux is a very small (50 MB) and fast desktop-oriented Linux distribution. It can:
￭ boot from an 8cm Compact Disc; ￭ boot from an USB flash drive; ￭ be easily converted into a Debian OS; ￭ run on low-end machines, such as a 486DX with 16MB of RAM; ￭ be used as a Live CD; ￭ be highly modular.
Download Damn Small Linux 4.4.3 right now from Softpedia.