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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iszomer 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	lizknope 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, I had one of these in my wallet with DSL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card
	▲	comprev 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm sure I burned a Gentoo stage 1 boot ISO onto one of those card-sized discs.

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LeFantome 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.