Versions and Ports
| Version | Date |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | 13 April 2005 |
| 1.1 | 5 May 2005 |
| 1.2 | 7 June 2005 |
| 1.3 | 14 July 2005 |
| 1.4 | 2 August 2005 |
| 1.5 | 6 September 2005 |
| 2.0 | 22 November 2005 |
| 2.4 | 16 May 2006 |
| 3.0 | 20 June 2006 |
| 3.1 | 29 November 2006 |
| 3.2 | 18 January 2007 |
| 3.3 | 3 April 2007 |
| 3.4 | 3 July 2007 |
| 4.0 | 23 October 2007 |
| 4.1 | 2 December 2007 |
| 4.2 | 18 December 2007 |
| 4.3 | 22 April 2008 |
| 4.4 | 9 June 2008 |
The standard flavour of DSL is the Live CD. There are also other versions available:
- 'Frugal' installation: DSL's 'cloop' image is installed, as a single file, to a hard disk partition. This is likely more reliable and secure than a traditional hard drive installation, since the cloop image cannot be directly modified; any changes made are only stored in memory and discarded upon rebooting.
- 'dsl-version-embedded.zip': Includes QEMU for running DSL inside Windows or Linux.
- 'dsl-version-initrd.iso': Integrates the normally-separate cloop image into the initrd image; this allows network booting, using PXE. As a regular toram boot, requires at least 128mb ram.
- 'dsl-version-syslinux.iso': Boots using syslinux floppy image emulation instead of isolinux; for very old PCs that cannot boot with isolinux.
- 'dsl-version-vmx.zip': A virtual machine hard drive image that can be run in VirtualBox, VMware Workstation or VMware Player.
- DSL-N: A larger version of DSL that exceeds the 50 MB limit of business-card CDs. DSL-N uses version 2 of the GTK+ widget toolkit and version 2.6 of the Linux kernel. The latest release of DSL-N, 0.1RC4, is 95 MB in size. It is not actively maintained.
One can also boot DSL using a boot-floppy created from one of the available floppy images ('bootfloppy.img'; 'bootfloppy-grub.img'; 'bootfloppy-usb.img'; or 'pcmciabootfloppy.img') on very old computers, where the BIOS does not support the El Torito Bootable CD Specification. The DSL kernel is loaded from the floppy disk into RAM, after which the kernel runs DSL from the CD or USB drive.
DSL was ported to the Xbox video game console as X-DSL. X-DSL requires a modified Xbox. It can run as a Live CD or be installed to the Xbox hard drive. Users have also run X-DSL from a USB flash drive, using the USB adaptor included with Phantasy Star Online, which plugs into the memory card slot and includes one USB 1.1 port. X-DSL boots into a X11-based GUI; the Xbox controller can be used to control the mouse pointer and enter text using a virtual keyboard. X-DSL has a Fluxbox desktop, with programs for E-mail, web browsing, word processing and playing music. X-DSL can be customized by downloading extensions from the same MyDSL servers as DSL.
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