DeLi Linux

News

The web site is now reachable under www.delilinux.org. Thanks to Abdullah and Ömer from Norm Works Multimedia in Turkey
Added spanish, galician, portuguese, turkish, italian, russian, chinese and french translation of the web page. Thanks to Manuel, Florentin, Luigi, Bl00dy, littlebat and Burhan.

Added new packages and updated a few. Check out the package news

DeLi Linux 0.7.2 is out. Get DeLi Linux.
Here is a List of packages
Here is a screenshot from DeLi 0.7.2
The most important changes are listed here
Release announcement

What is DeLi Linux ?

DeLi Linux stands for "Desktop Light" Linux. It is a Linux Distribution for old computers, from 486 to Pentium II or so. It's focused on desktop usage. It includes email clients, graphical web browser, an office programs with word processor and spreadsheet, and so on. A full install, including XOrg and development tools, needs not more than 350 MB of harddisk space.

The trick is, that DeLi Linux uses only "lightweight" alternative software. If you are looking for the newest KDE, GNOME or Mozilla, DeLi Linux will not make you happy. The test computer is a 486 laptop with 16 MB RAM, and all apps which comes with DeLi Linux are running smoothly.

"Why the heck make a Linux for such old crap ?" you may ask. There are still many computers around with the configuration mentioned above, it would be a shame to waste them. Many people simply cannot buy a 4 Ghz machine for 1000 $ or more, but they can buy a Pentium I 133 for 50 $ from ebay. Many people are still happy with the computer they bought five years ago. Especially in the so-called third world, new hardware is not affordable. Well, there's still Windows95 or Windows 3.1, which will run on these machines, too. But these versions are not supported by MS anymore, they are no longer in production, and finally, you will not get any software for this old Windows version.

What people say about DeLi Linux

"I can't stop playing with it. So, don't throw that old computer away, install DeLi Linux." (Susan Linton, tuxmachines.org in a Distrowatch review)

"DeLi Linux surprised me by turning the old 486 into an usable system [...] the Pentium III was extremely responsive, being even faster than my main AMD64 system running Fedora Core 6 [...] As far as lightweight Linux distributions go, DeLi is one of the best." (Stefan Vrabie on a review at linux.com)

"I still have my first Intel machine, a 486DX2 66MHz system [...] it currently runs DeLi Linux as a workstation for my mother who, despite being technophobic, loves it and has no problems." (Usenet post)

Is Deli Linux a turkish distribution? First let me say, that DeLi Linux is an international distribution and you can configure DeLi Linux to "speak" the language you want, but its main language is english. Some users from Turkey may think, that Deli Linux is a turkish distribution, because "deli" is the turkish word for "wild" or "crazy". That's one reason I chose this name. It's an abbreviation for "Desktop Light Linux", but it also means "Crazy Linux" in turkish - which was a nice coincidence, I thought. If you're interested: I'm not turkish, ama Türkiye çok seviyorum. Ben Türkiye'de her yil.

Getting DeLi Linux

Warning: DeLi Linux is still beta. There is no warranty of any kind, use and test DeLi Linux at your own risk.

Get it per BitTorrent (thanks to catwalk)

Download installation floppy disks.

Download a ports tree

ISO Mirrors

Download ISO from mihd

Download BIG ISO from mihd (with additional software from deli32 and nx, 242 MB)

Download ISO from Jens mirror

Download BIG ISO from Jens mirror (with additional software from deli32 and nx, 242 MB)

Download ISO from Mirror berlios

Download ISO from Mirror darksnow (Brazil)

Screenshots of Deli Linux

Contact

You want to contribute to DeLi Linux? You have found serious bugs?You want to make suggestions? Write me an email.