Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Damn Small Linux

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Keep AdamBiswanger1 03:29, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Damn Small Linux

Prod tag removed without comment, no evidence is provided that this linux distribution is any more notable than any other.--Peta 00:24, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Arbusto 01:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep common enough, though the article needs cleanup; not a great set of statistics, but DistroWatch ranks it above Slackware and Debian in lookups over the past year. Opabinia regalis 01:32, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Damn Small Linux is perhaps the most well-known Linux distro for business-card CD's and USB thumbdrives. I see it as notable. However the article could certainly do with a clean up and a trim to make it more focused. But I don't think slapping a 'prod' template on the article and now listing it here on AfD is the proper way to motivate people to fix the article. Even if it does result in a cleanup, there are other ways to achieve that result. This is just a waste of time. Imroy 04:37, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Extremely strong speedy keep. Damn small linux is the most popular micro linux distro, with a rank of 7 on distrowatch (which means, to all of you non-linux-geeks, that it's the seventh most popular linux distro). It's more popular than Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, CentOS, and Debian itself. Ultra-Loser ^{Talk | BT sites} 04:53, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

• Comment while I agree this should be kept, a rank of 7 on DistroWatch doesn't make the 7th most popular distribution; just the 7th most popular distro page on their site. They're not measuring actual usage. Opabinia regalis 06:20, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep So-called Portable software is a growing phenomenon as small flash drives increase in capacity and more and more consumer electronics (video game consoles) evolve towards becoming full-fledged desktop computers capable of running alternate OSes. Invariably the content can be expanded as popularity (and enquiries) increase in frequency. Currently there is no portable software article, btw. --Neo 09:07, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep "any more notable than any other" would make it notable enough. Only, I'd rename the article to DSLinux personally. --Kitch ^{(Talk | Contrib)} 12:06, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: We already have a DSLinux article. They don't appear to be the same distro at all. --Aaron 21:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: Even if DSLinux didn't already exist, that name is simply wrong. The distro is called Damn Small Linux, and so should the article. Using an uncommon (and ambiguous) shortening of the name is inappropriate. --Imroy 02:25, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep, quite notable as one of the premiere compact linux distributions. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 13:07, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep Damn Small Linux is a rather widely used disto. It is just as deserving of having its own page as say Gentoo. --Maelnuneb (Talk) 14:15, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep - Probably the most notable non-commercialized Linux distro there is. I do agree that the article could use a little more notability evidence. -- Plutortalkcontribs 15:29, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• keep keep keep heqs 17:29, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Seems plenty N to me. --Aaron 21:33, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Damn Small is certainly a notable enough distro to warrent keeping. It's one of the few distros created solely for use on really old computers. Infact, it was the first Linux distro I ever used. BWF89 00:03, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Without this page people looking for a small linux Distro may have trouble finding this one. Also It's good for people on dial up.--Dr.-B 08:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep.I found it useful. SGC
• Keep PureLegend 10:36, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep among the best known of small Linux distributions. Also causes a lot of confusion. ("Yes, I'm using DSL?" "So you use DSL? Er...") --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 12:29, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as it is one of the more notable compact Linux distros. --Kuroki Mio 2006 23:56, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Notable linux distro and article is in line with Wikipedia guidelines. Vic sinclair 05:00, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per the comments above, this is a WP:SNOW candidate. Yamaguchi先生 23:22, 9 October 2006

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.