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Re: Damn Small Linux 2024

Date 2024-04-01 19:45 -0600
From candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.announce
Subject Re: Damn Small Linux 2024
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Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> wrote at 19:16 this Monday (GMT):
> On 4/1/2024 5:22 PM, Marco Moock wrote:
>> On 31.03.2024 um 22:42 Uhr Kyonshi wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2/2/2024 3:35 AM, Marco Moock wrote:
>>>> Damn Small Linux 2024 has been released afters years of stalled
>>>> development.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
>>>>
>>>> They now have a limit of 700MB for their distribution.
>>>>    
>>>
>>> which means it's not really Damn Small anymore.
>> 
>> In current times, this might be still damn small - compared to current
>> games that need 50GB.
>> 
>>> It's ok, but 700mb used to be the standard for live discs. I guess it
>>> isn't anymore. I also guess nobody is using live discs anymore.
>> 
>> Not possible anymore, the applications and system components have
>> enlarged.
>> 
>> 
>
> I think the bigger issue is that modern laptops for example come without 
> disc drives at all.
>
> Nothing more stupid than wanting to watch a DVD from my collection and 
> realizing that the only way to do that is trying to get the ancient DVD 
> player out of storage.


Yeah.. at least I still have a DVD player somewhere.
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Damn Small Linux 2024 Marco Moock <mm+usenet@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-02-01 20:35 -0600
  Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-03-31 22:42 -0600
    Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-04-01 09:22 -0600
      Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-04-01 13:16 -0600
        Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-04-01 19:45 -0600
          Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-04-02 12:19 -0600
            Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-04-02 21:50 -0600
              Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-04-03 19:36 -0600
                Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-04-03 20:26 -0600
                Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 Gosseyn <alan@gosseyn.net> - 2024-04-10 17:20 -0600
        Re: Damn Small Linux 2024 Gosseyn <alan@gosseyn.net> - 2024-04-10 17:19 -0600

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