| Damn Small Linux 3.4 RC1 arrives |
Jun. 20, 2007
 The Damn Small Linux (DSL) project team on June 19 announced the availability of the first release candidate of the next version of its live CD mini-distribution based on Debian Linux. Damn Small Linux 3.4 features a 2.4.26 kernel and a lightweight Fluxbox desktop environment, the team said.
Key changes and updates, according to the team's changelog, include: - MurgaLua updated to v0.4.1
- libXft.so.2 added
- acpid added, use boot option "acpid"
- bcrypt added, dropped des
- improved emelfm for better command line interface support
- fixed user umount Debian Woody bug
- updated webdata to use bcrypt
- updated file backup and restore to use bcrypt via "protect" boot option
DSL 3.4 RC1 includes a text editor (vim 6.1), the Firefox 1.0.6 browser, Berkeley database v4.0.14, and CDR-Tools 2.01a19 (for burning CDs).
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"Please test carefully, as the backup and restore code has changed. Please test the new bcrypt code with caution," said team member and spokesperson Robert Shingledecker in the user forum.
DSL is a distribution that can fit into a business card-size CD or a small USB key drive, and can run well on a system as obsolete as a 16MB 486, according to the project.
You can download the 49.7MB live CD iso image from the main DSL site, here. Alternatively, you can link directly to the iso image here.
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