These are the Linux distributions I've downloaded over time. Most of these are standard ISO files, although some distributions may have additional documentation or MD5 files with them.
As I continue to download them, I will provide links to documentation and the MD5 files.
Shortly, I will place more information about MD5 hashes, on the utilities web page.
Additional information can be obtained from DistroWatch (http://www.distrowatch.com)
Damn Small Linux

1. 1. v0.4.4

DSL v0.4.4 (Main Disk Image)
MD5SUM
Summary Info

2. 2. v0.5.1

It’s really not tough, but I always seem to forget how to install a package to Freesco.
Just use the following command from the freesco command line (remember you must be root to do this)

pkg -i pathname

Pathname would be the location of the package, usually in http: format.

For instance, the installation of the Dinjite’s Utils package for 0.3.x would be:

I'm a big supporter of the Freesco Linux Router project. I gave a presentation on it to the Portland Unix/Linux User Group (PLUG) in January 2003. If I can find the missing slides, I'll post them on this page. In the meantime, it is a free replacement for commerical routers supporting up to 10 ethernet/arcnet/token ring network cards and up to 8 modems. It fits completely on a floppy disk (1.44 Mb) and can run in as little as 8 Mb of RAM. Obviously, if you have more memory or install it to a harddrive, you can greatly expand it's capabilities.

There is a lot of discussion about an alternative opeerating system to Microsoft Windows called Linux.  In some ways, this the current "buzz" in the high-tech industry.  To be complete, the kernel (or main set of instructions that control the Central Processing Unit (CPU)) was developed by a young finnish student named Linus Torvalds as part of his post-baccalauratte work. The utilities used to help manage the system are mostly GNU. For more information about GNU (GNU's Not Unix) can be found at www.gnu.org.

This article only covers backing up from the Command Linux (i.e., the shell, usually bash or korn (ksh) shells).

If you wanted to back up the database timsdata, you would simply use a command like:

mysqldump -c -u tim -p timsdata > timsdata.sql

This would create a file called timsdata.sql in the current directory. You should be aware that where I've entered the name tim in italics, you should specify another authorized user for the database.