Thanks for building DSL 2024!

Here are a few more ideas and issues I have had.

1.  Polish spam-bots on the forum -- can you please zap these guys?  I get emails from every time one of these things post.

2.  It is pretty manual to change the screen timeout.  I wish this was part of the menu GUI system

3.  I have a laptop hooked to an external monitor, even after disabling the laptop monitor through Control Centre/Session/Set Screen Resolution (ARandR) the wallpaper image I selected is stretched in a strange way.  I wish there was a more robust wallpaper GUI to stretch and center the image I select from Control Center/Choose Wallpaper.

4.  When I reboot, the laptop goes back to the laptop screen.  I wish it remembered what to do when the laptop is connected to an external monitor.

Thanks for your work,
Will

All is well.  Installing dosbox was easy (through apt) and installing Quest For Glory 1 from a Gog installer went smooth (with the help of innoextract).  I then went on to set up NordVPN.  All is well and Im ready to retro game in the airplane.

Having tons of fun so far.  Is John doing all the code himself?  I have some programming experience.  If John is not doing all the code himself, how does one sign up to fix small problems (GitHub repo?)?

Have a good one,
Will

Howdy,

The login background still says AntiX.  It shows up right after I log in with my username and password, before the desktop is visible.

My suggestion, come up with a new background that says DSL 2024 that appears, instead of AntiX.

Regards,
Will

Small idea:

Many distros use the shortcut Cntl-Alt-T to start a terminal window.  My suggestion is to add this shortcut by default

Regards,
Will

When I right click, in the file manager, the image that I downloaded from the below link, I get the following error:
Link to Image : https://wallpapercave.com/w/wp6099242

Error I received:

cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/desktop-session/desktop-session-wallpaper/wallpaper.conf': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/desktop-session/desktop-session-wallpaper/wallpaper-list.conf': No such file or directory
cat: /home/willz06jw/.desktop-session/wallpaper.conf: No such file or directory
cat: /home/willz06jw/.desktop-session/wallpaper.conf: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/willz06jw/.desktop-session/wallpaper-list.conf: No such file or directory
There was no valid style for wallpaper setting found, defaulting to grey background

When I used the Control Centre/Use Wallpaper menu it worked fine

When i first opened my dsl 2024 computer, a screen came up showing me all the wireless networks my wifi adapter could see.  I clicked on them, I then double clicked on them.  I pressed Enter -- and it just unhighlighted the selected network.  I took a moment and then found that there was a tab at the top that had setting to connect to the network.  The first screen was just a list of networks that the adapter could see.

I think it would help adoption if the initial wifi screen allowed a user to double click on the wifi network shown to connect to it.

Will

Hi,

Let me start by saying that the installation succeeded. 

I wanted to mention that at one part of the installation it seemed like it hung at 97%, with a close button at the bottom of the screen.  I waited a minute or two and then it finished the installation.  I expect that if I had hit that close button it would have screwed up the installation.  I just wanted to mention that.

Will

Hi everyone,

I used to use DSL back in the day, like more than a few of you.

I'm looking forward to a DSL 2024 full release and am going to install on an old netbook someone gave me

Here are some ideas I have had so far:
--Remove the gotcha style ads on the webpage.  If I recommend this distro to someone, and they can't figure out which "Download here" button is real or fake, it would make us both look bad.
--Fix the Paypal error, where you donate and then it doesn't go back to the main page
--Publish a roadmap of future release milestones and estimated times of release
--Remove 2024 from the name, its 2026. How about Freaking Damn Small Linux?
--create 4 versions: DVD-size, CD-size, Zipdisk-size (100MB), and Floppy-size (1.44MB)

I expect the antiX version won't be able to cram into a zipdisk more than my wife's foot can fit into a normal woman's sized shoe, but perhaps we could do what is possible (like a tiny core version for the zipdisk-size and ELKS version for the floppy size) --- and make the rest a work in process. 

Also, open the project up to other developers...you and Cursor can't write the whole thing man!

Have a good one and thank you for your damn awesome work over the years,
Will

Introducing myself: 

I am an ornery geekly old fart well into my geezerhood. I love using Lini: the basic concepts have been very appealing. However arfter too many years with Fedora and Mint, I still feel like a rank newcomer, often overwhelmed by the jargon.

Web searches have ofen resulted in cascading confusion. I have learned  the hard way that much of the advice on the Web is outdated, irrelevant, or just outright bad. I'm still a beginner.

I doddered onto your refreshingly-forthright distro with such a delightful name. I mean, John: you could have been more polite and named it, well, you know: "Darn Small Linux," Or "Gosh-Dang Little Linux." How enticing!

Herewith, I will submit my first question in what looks like the appropriate forum.

Please admit me into your Community of the Damned!

George

I'm working on reviving some pretty old hardware that previously had DSL 4.x. Hard drive died so I'm starting "New". Might have to go back to 4.x

Panasonic Toughbook CF-45
Pentium MMX 233MHz
96MB Ram
64GB CF to IDE "hard drive"
USB 1.1
800x600 TFT 256K colors

When booting it gets stuck at "waiting for /dev to be fully populated". Searching the internets, it appears this may be a driver issue.

I see during the boot stages that it's defaulting Xorg to VESA. I believe this may be the issue as VESA never worked with this laptop.


When I boot DSL 4.x liveCD I use the use the following

fb800x600 (this option is not recognized in DSL 2024)
NO: usb mouse
Yes: IMPS/Wheel 

Looks like there's a hardware minimum that I haven't been able to find yet.