• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        DSL still a thing?

        (“Damn Small Linux” or, as I like to write it: “Damn, small Linux!”)

        They used to brag back in the day that it could run as a live system contained entirely on a standard 1.44 MB floppy! I made such a disk as part of my gonzo IT arsenal around 2007-ish, and it actually came in handy a few times as a rescue disk for PCs that still had a floppy drive.

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          8 days ago

          Heiren’s boot CD was an amazing tool to have. As “that guy who knows computers” it came in handy more times than I can count.