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Old 02-10-2008, 09:00 AM   #1
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LXer: Heard at SCALE 6x: Damn Small Linux moving to Firefox 2


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Damn Small Linux won't add just any application to its 50 MB distribution. But when there's a big hue and cry, things that users really need tend to get added. I thanked Robert Shingledecker for adding my favorite lightweight image editor, MtPaint, to DSL, and I'm anxiously awaiting another improvement: Firefox in DSL will move from the current version 1 to the GTK 1 version of Firefox 2. That's a big deal because a lot of Web sites require at least Firefox 1.5 for full functionality.

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Old 02-11-2008, 03:25 PM   #2
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Makes sense, considering even the portable distros like Maemo can even handle flash 9. DSL should be able to at least keep up with portable devices.

I also question the rationale to keeping it under 50MB. You can't get a thumbdrive that small anymore.
 
  


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