this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
426 points (98.2% liked)

Funny

16683 readers
350 users here now

General rules:

Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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.