User Feedback :: Patching DSL's name - RTDM?



First off, DSL is fantastic. Light-weight and yet highly functional, it is a wonderful way to breathe life back into old PCs whose next destination had been as door stops...

Now, at the risk of making people wet their pants while RTFMing, I'd like to raise an issue concerning DSL's name.

Forget all you've heard about life in post-Clinton America. I hang out in the small-town upland Southeast USA. To my surprise, I have learned that among nice older people here, the "D-word" is still SHOCKING.

I want to help people here enjoy a cheap zero-maintenance Internet appliance by having them use DSL on ancient PCs. I'm afraid that the D-word will make my job harder than it need be - it is a punch below the Bible Belt!

Is there an easy way to patch the various occurences of "damn" to "darn", or have you lost the power of speech because you're on the floor out of breath from laughing so hard?

- Just a DSL FNG
This has been raised several times, and the name hasn't changed so far.

So I doubt that it will change any time soon.

"Damn Small" is just to show the extent of how tiny it really is.

At least it isn't called F#$%ing Small Linux. Look on the Bright Side™.

-J.P.
FYI,

John & Co made quite an effort to eliminate the word "damn" from being used inside the distribution.  The bootup screen no longer contains the word "damn" and the default user account name is "dsl" instead of "damnsmall".

Short of renaming the distro and confusing everybody, there isn't much more that can be done.

If the name is too big of an issue for you, please try some other distributions that are based on similar concepts as Damn Small Linux, with some of them being direct decendants of it.

For starters, try Feather Linux or Liut Linux.

"Feather" sounds pretty harmless but who knows about Liut? Maybe it's named after a demon from the sixth plane of h*ll? Who knows :laugh:
Hey! A little CB humor! I like it!  :D

If you really love DSL but the name throws you, look at Feather. It is similar in design and they both are based on Knoppix 3.4. I live in the midwestern US and have dealt with the same issue you are describing.

Chris
I can't see a problem with you calling it darn small linux to your friends and family that you are trying to get to use DSL. It isn't going to throw anybody off. I would suggest just using the acrynom DSL but I could see that causing confusion. So if I were you, just say darn small linux.

And ack to the people who suggest other distros!

~Me

Darn Small Linux Rules :)
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