By popular demand, Damn Small Linux 4.2 was released last night and it comes with the following improvements and bug fixes over previous versions:

￭ New mtpaint replaces xpaint.
￭ New black/blue theme with "Fractal Movements" background.
￭ New folder for better support of Visual Styles for JWM .jwmrc-theme and downloadable themes.
￭ New setTheme.lua, drag-n-drop or double click application style.
￭ New folder for better support of backgrounds, downloadable "DSL Classics".
￭ New generic folder.xpm link for easier themeing of folders.
￭ Updated wallpaper.lua, drag-n-drop or double click application style.
￭ Improved support for JWM keybindings with .jwmrc-keys.
￭ Improved support for battey names in torsmo, fetched from /proc.
￭ Improved handling of multline menu items as MyDSL folder application shortcut icons.
￭ Improved cleanup of shortcuts upon normal shutdown.
￭ Fized bug so that /cdrom/mydsl is not processed twice.
￭ Fixed "?" icon to open "Getting Started".
￭ Updated iconViewer for mtpaint change.
￭ Many icons have been changed, updated, or replaced.
￭ Updated /opt/.dfmext with more associations.
￭ Cleanup of xmms when started from dfm icon.
￭ Cleanup of usused files, modules, and directories (pnp, xfs, hfs, hfsplus, bfs, befs, adfs, ujs, minix, efs).





While being powered by JWM (Joe's Window Manager), DSL 4.2 includes powerful and useful applications for daily usage. Through these applications we can 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 there is a list of more great applications you can find inside Damn Small Linux:

￭ XMMS (mp3, ogg, mpeg, cd audio) and mp321 and ogg123 (that's right, you got Music and Video)
￭ Vim, an enhanced Vi
￭ Assorted Xbase utilities (Xcalc etc.)
￭ ssh, sshd
￭ betaftpd, a very small FTP daemon
￭ Sqlite a small and very fast SQL database engine
￭ Nano, a Pico Clone
￭ MS Office Viwer
￭ Postscript Viewer
￭ AxY FTP
￭ Telnet client
￭ Microcom
￭ Midnight Commander
￭ Bash Burn, CD Burning App
￭ Fast and Light GUI Admin tools
￭ Monkey web server
￭ VNCviewer
￭ Rdesktop





Damn Small Linux is a very small (50 MB) and fast desktop-oriented Linux distribution. It can:

￭ boot from a business card CD;
￭ boot from a USB pen drive;
￭ run *inside* Windows;
￭ run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive;
￭ be transformed into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install;
￭ run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram;
￭ run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!);
￭ highly extendable without the need of customizing.





You can download Damn Small Linux 4.2 right now from Softpedia!