Damn Small Linux DSL

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tunebud
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Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:

* Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
* Boot from a USB pen drive
* Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
* Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
* Transform 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!)
* Modularly grow -- DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
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battye
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Hey, thanks for that Tune. I've always wanted to try out Linux, I even downloaded gb upon gb of one distribution a few years ago (Mandrake I think it was) but never got around to installing it... maybe this time I can do it :P
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