What's particularly intriguing about an announcement made last Friday, however, is that it's not just an ordinary update. Rather, news of this new release signals the return of a distro that hasn't published an update in four years.

It's , specifically, and it just rolled out a first release candidate for a brand-new version 4.11.

"The changes in this release are a step toward making DSL a friendly alternative for older hardware," wrote project leader John Andrews in an last Friday. "I've fixed some bugs, updated some applications, and replaced others."

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I actually wrote briefly about Damn Small Linux , when I compared it with , which at that time was No. 10 on DistroWatch's list of page-hit rankings.