i'm just wondering if any one has rolled their own DamnSmall and where are these hybrids?????
(i ~like~ Dsl but it's not the best thing for me right now as i'm a complete noob, so if there were other ,small, distros that i could check out, i'd be totally stoked -yaknow?)
i just wish that the same way ubuntu has proliferated ,DamnSmall would to?

i like xfce, firefox, gaim/pidgin, torrentz, mplayer/gxone (with ALL codecs) and video tutorials
(and don't call me lazy, I'm just not a geek-MuCh")

My DSL system has the latest Firefox, AMSN (I've had Gaim in the past), Bittorrent and Mplayer (with codecs for almost everything). It was a simple matter to install these applications (and the codecs) from the MyDSL repository. I wouldn't handroll a DSL just to have these apps.

Other mini Linux distros:

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributi...Distributions/

Although you've already found the best IMO (DSL). Feather Linux is pretty neat too.. can't go wrong with any Knoppix variant really.

yeah, i'd really like to roll my own, but atm i have to look at windows 4 school (which sucks i know but) and concentrate on other things <"z manual b looooong bro, long">

I've been fooling around with DSL 4.2.4 for a little while and I'm quite pleased with it. I can't say enough good things about DSL - small footprint, lean, well thought out, stable, easy to use - so this will be the base for my remaster. I'm considering remastering it for a couple of reasons:

1. I want to -really- learn the nuts and bolts of how a distro is built, starting with one that's small enough to wrap my brain around.

2. While I very much admire what the DSL guys have done with 50 MB, I don't ever expect to use a "credit card" CD. Maybe a 3.5 inch CD, though.

3. I'm a programmer at heart. I want to lose all those goofy text editors and default to a light weight emacs type (probably zile).

4. Some of my scripts don't work with busybox so I want the gnu utilities.

5. I want some toys and tools available without having to go to the net to get them.

Whatever I come up with will likely be highly customized to my own personal preferences, but I will make it available (unless it turns out really badly). Any suggestions would be welcome, of course.

This is a very low priority project for me, and the "current" DSL is a moving target as it is actively under development, so who knows what I'll end up with.