DSL-N

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=511250

> can any one tell me what damn small linux- not is based on? is it debian?

DSL-N (as I understand it) is an offshoot of DSL which is a highly modified offshoot of KNOPPIX, which I believe is Debian based. Whew!!!

Both DSL-N and DSL use Fluxbox for their desktop environment rather than GNOME or KDE. They both provide bash for CLI. I don't think there are other shells provided. While they will each execute many of the CLI commands you are used to in Linux, many of these are carried out using Busybox, and as such have much more limited options than you may be used to.

documented on: 12-18-2006, blackhole54

If you have old hardware use dsl if you have new hardware and sata drive use dsl-n. Both are separate products and they are different.

I have mine is a small pendrive I bought from them (they need some $ support!). The pendrive came with dsl but I switch to dsl-n. Of course they have pendrives with dsl-n. … I have another laptop with dsl-n in the HD that works great.

They way dsl do things is a little different however is so fast with minimal resources and you can do almost everything.