Desktop Light Linux

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Desktop Light Linux
DeLi Linux 0.7.1 running Dillo and Abiword
Website	www.delilinux.de
Company/ developer	Henry Jensen
OS family	Linux
Source model	Open source
Latest stable release	0.8.0 / May 28, 2008
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel
Default user interface	IceWM
License	Various
Working state	Current

Desktop Light Linux (DeLi Linux for short) is a desktop Linux distribution for old PCs.

1 Release history
2 Software
3 Requirements
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Release history

Until version 0.6.1 DeLi Linux was based on Slackware 7, using Linux 2.2.

DeLi Linux version 0.7.x is a new development from scratch with Linux 2.4.33.3 and no longer based on Slackware. The OS still uses the Slackware package management, additionally there is a new port system based on CRUX. DeLi Linux is now based on uClibc instead of the GNU C Library. A port of OpenBSD's Korn shell is used as the default shell.

**DeLi Linux**
Version	Date
0.1	November 2, 2002
0.2	March 19, 2003
0.3	July 9, 2003
0.4	November 26, 2003
0.5	December 16, 2003
0.6	June 16, 2004
0.6.1	September 9, 2004
0.7	2006-09-15
0.7.1	2006-10-17
0.7.2	2007-05-18
0.8.0	2008-05-28

[edit] Software

DeLi Linux comes with Abiword and Siag Office as the office suites. For the web browser, there is Konqueror Embedded. Included email clients are Mutt and Sylpheed. Window managers IceWM and Fluxbox are included. For editing, DeLi Linux offers e3, elvis and Beaver.

Since DeLi Linux ships only light weight software, many popular open source programs are not included, such as GNOME, KDE, Emacs, Mozilla, or Mozilla Thunderbird.

DeLi Linux provides a special online software repository named deli32 which has software packages which need at least 32 MB RAM, such as Mozilla Firefox, Gnumeric and VLC.

[edit] Requirements

DeLi Linux (up to 0.7.2) needs a 386 with 8 MB RAM as a minimum. It should work smoothly with a 486 and 16 MB RAM. A full installation with all packages requires nearly 400 MB of hard disk space.^[1] The new release, 0.8.0, now requires 32 MB RAM.