Damn Small Linux is a dead project. Really people should migrate to Tiny Core, which number five on that list.

There are other distributions which claim to be minimal; mostly for netbook users. These include things like CrunchBang or eeebuntu (if that's still its name). Some of them were decidedly not minimal.

The article fails to mention some of the oddities of these distributions; eg having to run as root.

The article fails to mention other ways to get a small installation. Distributions such as Arch are excellent here - Arch really does have a brilliant user community and documentation. Another alternative would be Linux From Scratch or Gentoo, although they would both be more effort than most people would want.