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[john biles]

Hello Legacy OS 2 users and those with an old Pentium III PC,
Today see the release of Legacy OS 2.1 Gamer.
Please download and enjoy!
If your PC is known to be compatible with Legacy OS 2 and you try Legacy OS 2.1 Gamer can you post back that you had a successful boot up and it works.

Other highlights is the update to Opera 12 with excellent HTML5 support for great Web Surfing and the new look for this release and upcoming releases.

While this release focuses mainly on Games, With Apps like Amarok, Abiword and Gnumeric this is still a very usable OS for every day computing.

MD5SUM = c3aeeed0a8587b0b5264186a4031785f LOS2.1GAMER.iso

Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/legacyoslinux/files/

[James C]

Not the actual machine I'll be running this on but......... Legacy OS 2.1 live pfix=ram on my main Athlon XP box.Booted and working.
Using Xvesa because of the Nvidia card but everything appears to be working.Running in ram........ cd ejected.
Will try on some more appropriate hardware in a few.

[john biles]

Hello James C,
Thanks for confirming Legacy OS 2.1 Gamer boots.

[James C]

A bit more appropriate hardware........ sound and display working on initial boot.... a couple of clicks for the internet.Looks good.

Athlon XP 2000+
512 mb ram
no hdd
Via VT8375 ProSavage graphics

Will drag out something to try the installer on..... no hdd on this box.

[Colonel Panic]

Hi John,

I'm posting from it now, live. It boots but one thing I can't do so far is run Flash on it (for Youtube etc).

Good effort anyway; I like the 2 series Pups and it's good that someone's still releasing a derivative based on one.

[john biles]

Hello Colonel Panic,
Strange? I can confirm flash works. With ever increasing content and HD being put in web pages and the fact that the 10 series of flashplayer is the last version compatible with Legacy OS 2 series some flash content won't play.
I've never had trouble with Youtube and watch regularly TV shows on a Pentium 4 PC. Testing on my trusty Pentium III shows Youtube with dropped frames but the sound is perfect. Legacy OS 2 is my main OS full time. I live it breath it improve it. LOL!

This is why 2 more releases of Legacy are under development and are planned for release in the coming months.

[Colonel Panic]

Hi again John,

Is your copy of Legacy 2.1 installed to your hard drive? Mine isn't, and I again tried to get Flash working on my machine and sadly, no go. All I got was a black rectangle instead

I should perhaps add at this point that I'm reluctant to install a distro to my hard drive because Grub install doesn't always work properly, and you can end up (as I have on several occasions in the past) not only not being able to access the distro you've just installed but also the others already on your hard drive,

[john biles]

Hello Colonel Panic,
I've had success using flash with both live and installed. 90% of Legacy OS usage is with the system installed to Hard Drive.

[Colonel Panic]

[john biles]

Hello Colonel Panic,
To make way for the games I removed a lot of apps. Nothing was removed that should affect flash and Youtube. If other releases work on the same machine then in all reality Gamer should too. Very strange.

[James C]

Been delayed because I forgot about the "too much ram and the installer won't work" thing. Couldn't install.....pulled out some ram down to 256 Mb and then no problem.
First, flash is working here. Youtube videos play ...no problem.Actually everything appears to be working.

800 Mhz
256 Mb ram
1.0 Gb swap

[Colonel Panic]

Hello again John,

I tried Legacy 2.1 again and Flash still didn't work, so I cheated I installed Opera 11.11 from the pet and Flash works just fine in it.

-CP

[Colonel Panic]

duplicate post

[cthisbear]

Download from Softpedia.

" Legacy OS 2 Gamer, a distribution based on Puppy Linux that is aimed at very old PCs, is now at version 2.1.

The developers has made great efforts in incorporating applications that still work on very old hardware, such as Pentium III. "


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Legacy-OS-2-Gamer-2-1-Is-a-Distro-for-PCs-Older-than-Their-Owners-366742.shtml

Chris.

[simargl]

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