The official Damn Small Linux book

• Verfasst von: Shingledecker, Robert [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Andrews, John [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Negus, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The official Damn Small Linux book
• Titelzusatz: the tiny adaptable Linux that runs on anything
• Verf.angabe: Robert Shingledecker, John Andrews, Christopher Negus
• Ausgabe: [First edition].
• Verlagsort: Upper Saddle River, NJ
• Verlag: Prentice Hall
• E-Jahr: 2008
• Jahr: [2008]
• Umfang: 1 online resource (449 pages)
• Illustrationen: illustrations
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Negus live Linux series
• Fussnoten: Includes index
• ISBN: 978-1-282-67009-9
• ISBN: 1-282-67009-3
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Systèmes d'exploitation (Ordinateurs)
• Sach-SW: operating systems
• K10plus-PPN: 1890483524
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext
• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
• Bibliothek/Idn: UW / m4533708919
• Lokale URL Inst.: Zum Volltext

Abstract

Damn Small Linux (DSL) started as an exercise by John Andrews to fit an entire desktop computer system into a compressed 50MB image. Within a few years, DSL grew to one of the most popular Linux systems in the world (in the Top Ten, by some accounts) without growing beyond that 50MB target. In a world where desktop systems are bloated with eye candy and many rarely used features, you may wonder what makes this little operating-system-that-could so popular? Well, it could be that people don’t want to throw away a usable computer because the latest Windows system won’t run. It could be that people are tired of waiting for common computer operations to complete while who-knows-what goes on in the background. Or maybe it’s just a love for simplicity and elegance. DSL sets out to include all the basic features you need in a modern desktop computer system—and then makes those features functional, fast, and efficient. As a result, DSL can run well on hardware that is smaller, older, or less powerful than what most of today’s desktop systems demand.