A good way to test it is to see if there's a torrent download
or other d/l available.

Is this thing on www.distrowatch?

I have seen a couple Linuxes crop up just lately... one, after
all the hype was over with, wasn't worth the plastic it was
burnt to.

One hopes that this DSL Linux is Debian based since Debian
has the easiest upgrade path.

Lastly, what are the advantages of a dsl Linux? The setup
of any dsl through PPPoE was pretty easy, even for me.

And back to the audio topic, have you seen DeMudi by Agnula?
DeMudi stands for Debian Music Distribution and features
most everything for musicians and audiophiles in the Linux
world.

There's another one called Puppy Linux which you can google.

A check of articles by Marcel Gagne from a couple months ago
in Linux Journal gives more install info.

the latest wrinkle in these things is the Live Cd which can be
updated and personalized.

So you load the Live cd, set up your stuff and can then take your
'desktop' to any other machine such as net cafes and whatnot.
At the end of the session I guess you can request a cd burn of
that new info, k3b (the disc burning program in Linux) runs and
voila-- personalized live cd.

The operating system bootable from a flashdrive is a notion that
has been around for a while and used in a hardware build from
Linux Journal a couple months back.

I'm fascinated by the idea of using the flashdrive on a thin client
and having some sort of ATA over ethernet set up in a home network.

But for me, the whole Linux thing has been slow going and there
are many reasons why it's not ready for prime time.

In Linux, I actually migrated from using the Firefox icon
on the desktop to Konqueror which is the native browser
in Linux. The reason for this is the way that Konqueror
is more closely integrated to the KDE desktop-- the desktop
of preference for many users. This has to do with how
Linux reads fonts. What this means is that there is less of
the control ++ activities to enlarge or shrink the display
fonts on web pages.

Linux has several desktop environments: KDE and also Gnome.

Regardless of the desktop or the distibution you select,
Firefox is in the taskbar for easy use.

As to ISOs: I've had good success downloaded ISOs in
the download procedure in Firefox under Windows and also
using Firefox download under a Linux distro called
Simply Mempis.

Burning the ISO an uncomplicated procedure if you observe
the steps... I have the steps in the link below.

Once the ISO is burned to cd or dvd depending on the size,
the disk is ready to either run (live Cd) or install to a
hard disk.

Mepis has an install routine on their Live CD disk.

• How to burn an ISO in Nero and Nero Express