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@nichtburningturtle DSL
Hasn't that been unmaintained for years? Puppy is the spiritual successor.
@superkret funnily enough, it was updated in June this year
Development restarted this year, the 2024 version will be out soon, it's in RC phase.
Thanks, TIL.
It was updated this year. They moved on from the mini-CD limit (50MB?) to a regular CD (700MB). Spiritual successor, newer target.
I remember when full size distros were 700MB.
It is really just an AntiX spin now
so basically Debian 😉