Recent threads at the DSL Forums have covered issues pertaining to licensing, the GPL in particular. Many people casually praise the GPL without considering what it actually says and what it means to casual users and developers alike.
The first issue arose when someone posted links to his remasters of DSL. I was annoyed that he [...]
Preface
I’m writing this in response to every review or distro comparison that includes Damn Small Linux in the mix and tries to compare something intended to fit on a small CD or to be run off a small (64MB+!) USB thumbdrive to distros that require gobs of RAM, fast processors, and infinite storage space. I’ve [...]
I’m finding set ups that really work well for me and my low-end hardware. My present little piece of ancient computing nirvana is the following environment:
running gnu screen within X (kdrive from DSL)
using vifm by itself and within vim
elinks most of the time, Opera when I need graphics
snownews for rss
mplayer (no gui) to stream audio
This isn’t my [...]
With more reviews focused on default themes as reasons to use or not use certain distros, I decided to see if there’s some way to get some kind of transparency-like effect in jwm. The only way I can do that is to match the desktop background color with the window decoration background color. I also wanted to see if [...]
Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of DSL 4.4rc1.
New this time around, we get a major improvement in the lua scripting which includes a refactoring of the FLTK bindings (thanks Florian) so that only the parts required by each script run at any given time load regardless of what the script does or needs (in [...]
I decided to recompile my DSL hard drive install kernel while watching the Hornets beat down the Mavericks. My goal is to get it even smaller and faster.
Ten megabytes (plus some marginal amount cached) while running X and several other processes (I took the screenshot in console while ssh’elled in and then used sshfs to [...]
I’ve added and linked a shorter version of my Damn Small Linux “hardening” guide, which focuses on some of the changes I make immediately upon installing DSL to hard drive. Some of what I’ve added is security-related. After all, everyone thinks Linux is inherently more secure than Windows — so make sure it is. Other [...]
This is my first accessibility mod. It’s a fairly high contrast theme for jwm. I’ve refrained from gradients and used only three colors/shades of grey: black, medium grey, white. Adjust the font to suit your needs.
<JWM>
<!– dark contrast theme: flat, no gradients; black, white, medium grey –>
<WindowStyle>
<Font antialias=”false”>fixed</Font>
<Width>4</Width>
<Height>18</Height>
<Active>
<Text>white</Text>
<Title>black</Title>
<Corner>grey50</Corner>
<Outline>white</Outline>
</Active>
<Inactive>
<Text>grey50</Text>
<Title>black</Title>
<Corner>grey50</Corner>
<Outline>black</Outline>
</Inactive>
</WindowStyle>
<TaskListStyle>
<Font antialias=”false”>fixed</Font>
<ActiveForeground>black</ActiveForeground>
<ActiveBackground>white</ActiveBackground>
<Foreground>grey50</Foreground>
<Background>black</Background>
</TaskListStyle>
<!– Additional TrayStyle attribute: insert –>
<TrayStyle>
<Font antialias=”false”>fixed</Font>
<Background>grey50</Background>
<Foreground>white</Foreground>
</TrayStyle>
<PagerStyle>
<Outline>black</Outline>
<Foreground>grey50</Foreground>
<Background>black</Background>
<ActiveForeground>black</ActiveForeground>
<ActiveBackground>white</ActiveBackground>
</PagerStyle>
<MenuStyle>
<Font [...]
DSL 4.3 is out. Perhaps the most noteworthy change is the upgrade to Firefox 2.0 GTK1 (Bon Echo rebranding) from Firefox 1.0.6. Edit: There are other changes that deserve comment. The browser for MyDSL is now very much improved. The noicons cheatcode will now boot jwm without icons (in addition to not starting dfm on [...]
This has been occurring with great frequency the past week, and it totally sucks…
If it’s not one thing, it’s another…
Taken within minutes of each other.
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