Damn Small Linux

By Thomas Henwood · November 5, 2005 ·

Damn Small Linux, (DSL) is brilliant. Until today, I was a Linux n00b, but not any longer. Basically, it is a 50mb operating system, that can be used from a bootable CD, or can be installed on your hardrive (although I would recommend the former). It has a few programs in it, like Firefox, Dillo (linux webrowser), Beaver (text editor), some random spreadsheet program, image viewers, Xpaint and many more.
It is also very easy to get, merely download the iso and burn it to a disk (selecting “burn image”). Once burned, boot your computer, enter the BIOS, and enable booting from CD. Reeboot your PC with the disk in the drive, and your ready to go. The entire process took me only about 5minutes (not including downloading it) and I was astounded at how functional and neat it was for a 50mb free OS. Although I would never use it as a proper OS, it could be useful for losing yours, and your friends linux phobia, before you download a proper linux build.