I remember using DSL quite a bit back when I was first playing around with Linux. It was the only desktop-oriented Linux distro that seemed to actually run on my Compaq Presario 1210 (Tiny Core didn't even exist back then, and even when I did eventually try it, it choked on the laptop's weird graphics card). Pretty much nothing else was able to fit in the laptop's "whopping" 32MB or so of RAM (aside from Windows 2000 and older, as well as FreeDOS).