DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: UI update
While it is certainly possible to remaster DSL with Gtk2 and associated apps, its performance on older computers would not be as good. Same of 2.6 kernel. You would then have a smallish distro but not for smallish system. While there are other distros that may be smallish in terms of distro size, I believe DSL runs well on more of the smalish systems. We keep striving to make DSL not only small in distro size but to keep it using less hardware resources too.
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