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DSL is much older, and the original version came as a 50MB disk image.

Current version clocks in ~700MB, again very small when compared to any modern Linux installation media.

On the other hand, it seems like DSL takes a more extreme approach to slimming down i3/XFCE route, plus DSL contains Dillo which is arguably the latest modern-ish (to the most extent possible) and lightest browser in existence.

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I still remember burning the dsl livecd image to a mini-cd shaped like a credit card (edges trimmed off) and using it on university workstations.

I'm sure I burned a Gentoo stage 1 boot ISO onto one of those card-sized discs.

Yeah, I had one of these in my wallet with DSL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card

These days, DSL is just Debian with less installed. The 700 MB is a curated list of software chosen to fit on a CD image but you access to the full Debian repos.

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