First Alpha of Damn Small Linux 4.0 Released

By popular demand, a new and different version of Damn Small Linux (DSL 4.0) was released today, a few minutes ago. This first Alpha of DSL 4.0 contains the following highlights:

￭ New 2.4.34 kernel.
￭ Easier to use user interface
￭ A real desktop framework
￭ Drag-N-Drop capability
￭ Better and more flexible file associations
￭ Closer coupling of the icons and file manager
￭ Document centric capability
￭ Optional menu-less capability
￭ More intuitive interface to MyDSL extensions

While being powered by JWM (Joe's Window Manager), DSL 4.0 includes powerful and useful applications for daily usage, like 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 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.

For more information about this release please visit the official announcement.

Enjoy some screenshots we've made for this edition of Damn Small Linux:






You can download Damn Small Linux now from Softpedia.