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May 20th, 2008, 06:43 GMT · By

First Release Candidate of DSL 4.4 Is Here

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Damn Small Linux 4.4 RC1
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The first release
candidate of Damn Small Linux (DSL) 4.4 was announced last night by Rober Shingledecker. This version brings performance enhancements, some Firefox tweaks, new font and wallpapers, a few updated software and other bug fixes. Let's take a closer look at the highlights of DSL 4.4 RC1:

Enhanced performance by refactoring Lua/Fltk;
New theme and background;
New font for the entire system (smoothansi);
New .luafltkrc for the Lua/Fltk theme;
C/C++ software can benefit of a new Fltk library;
The fusermount permissions were fixed;
RSync was updated to version 3.0.2;
The Firefox search engines were restored to default;
DMix was updated;
The Man script was updated and it has now two new options: -o and -b;
All the Lua and Lua/Fltk scripts were updated to the new Lua/Fltk system.

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The following files, that can be in your backup, have changed:

.Xdefaults
.jwm.inc
.jwmrc-theme
.dfminfo
.fluxbox.inc

Damn Small Linux is a very small distribution that can boot from a USB stick, business card CD or within a host operating system. It is designed to run even on older computers, such as a 486DX with only 16MB of RAM. While being powered by JWM (Joe's Window Manager), Damn Small Linux 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.

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Download the stable release of Damn Small Linux, version 4.3, right now from Softpedia.

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Comment #1 by: O'coner on 20 May 2008, 09:10 UTC reply to this comment

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