User Feedback :: New review of DSL!
Anything is possible...
It is up to the developers to decide if they wish to start supporting remasters and modified versions or not.
However, they are already indirectly supporting syslinux by providing people with a boot floppy image. Many computers that do not work correctly with ISOLINUX also do not work correctly with booting from CDROM so they may also need the floppy instead of a direct BIOS boot from CDROM.
However, it is also possible for the users to do one of two things without reliance on the acceptance of extra work being done by the developers:
1) Do it yourself and then post the ISO somewhere for other people to download.
2) Provide a script to automatically do this so that people can continue to rebuild each newer vesion of DSL when it comes out.
or you can wait for an answer from the team...
This is under review. It is more that restoring the boot structure of syslinux. Either we have to support two versions or modify several programs to enable a common base. It is the latter that would be preferred and is being considered. Currently it is being tested. No promises yet. But we do listen and try.
As a newbie I feel a bit churlish about adding any remark to this thread but there is something I have wondered ...pls bear with me.
Clearly one of the most in demand (and interesting) uses of dsl is for recommissioning old hardware with a modern os. It would be fair to say this appears to me, in my short period here, to be a decent share of dsl's "market".
I read that a decision has been made to no longer maintain various backwards (hardware) compatible features in dsl's ongoing development - I imagine the syslink thing comes into this category. Of course earlier versions of dsl remain downloadable.
While it is for John and the developers to say, perhaps the idea of an eventual divergence of dsl into two development streams - one optimized for recent hardware only, the other maintaining or even focusing on backwards compatibility - might be a possible solution eg a "retro" dsl and dsl proper. But it is probably premature to consider this at this stage. Might just double the problems but it might also build a growing niche for dsl as the very best retrofit OS especially as the number of demonstrably-compatible modern apps & guis grow: there's clearly a need out there.
Just a suggestion for future consideration and I'm sure it has already occurred to people anyway....
I guess this is what Roberts meant by 'supporting two versions' anyway
original here.