Damn Small Linux is een bootable Linux-live-cd gebaseerd op de Linux distributies van Knoppix en Debian. Het besturingsysteem wordt ontwikkeld met de gedachte om een compacte distributie beschikbaar te stellen die kleiner is dan vijftig megabyte. DSL wordt geleverd met een groot aantal programma's met onder andere een mediaspeler, tekstverwerker, webserversoftware en verschillende internetapplicaties. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 3.0.1 uitgebracht met de volgende aankondiging:
Version 3.0.1:
The only difference with this release and 3.0 is that unionfs is an option, and not set by default. We are currently working on the incompatibility of our Firefox build with unionfs.
Version 3.0:
We have lots of new under the hood goodness in this release including the very cool sshfs and the new UNC extension which takes full advantage of unionfs to minimize system requirements. We also tracked down and killed several bugs. Thank you Robert for all your hard work on this release, and thank you to the community for all your suggestions and refinements.
- New DSL now boots to unionfs.
- New boot option "legacy" to boot without unionfs.
- Moved MyDSL local extension loading functionality from emelfm to MyDSL desktop icon.
- New mountable MyDSL extension type unc with automatic branch management.
- Adjust Getting Started/Dillo screen to support booting 640x480.
- Added ACPI modules for newer power management support.
- New FUSE support.
- New sshfs support for simple remote network mounts.
- Fixed bug in kbdconfig when changing keymaps.
- Fixed sshd stop issue in early 3.0 RC versions.
- Fixed reported typos.
- New theme "A Penguin with a Hat"
- New unc extension section in the MyDSL Repository.