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| 2012-03-21 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Legacy OS 4 "Mini" |
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John Van Gaans has announced the release of Legacy OS 4 "Mini", a Puppy-based desktop Linux distribution designed to run on obsolete Pentium 3/4 personal computers and laptops: "Today sees the release of Legacy OS 4 Mini, an update for TEENpup 2010 Mini Beta. Those updating from TEENpup 2010 Mini will need to save any important documents, music, etc. to an external hard drive or USB stick as a full reinstall is required to update to this new version. This release sees TEENpup 2010 Mini re-branded to Legacy OS 4 Mini. Users now have a choice between Legacy OS 2 (Puppy series 2-based) and Legacy OS 4 Mini (Puppy series 4-based) depending on hardware requirements. Legacy OS is a Linux distribution designed to run on obsolete legacy hardware. A user should be able to bring back to life a PC or laptop running a Pentium 3 or 4 processor." Read the remainder of the release announcement for further details, screenshots and relevant links. Download: Legacy-OS-4-Mini.iso (476MB, MD5).
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| About Legacy
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| Legacy OS (formerly TEENpup Linux) is a distribution based on Puppy Linux. Although the original concept was to create a flavour of Puppy Linux with more applications and a more appealing desktop aimed at teenage users, Legacy OS has now grown to become a general purpose distribution. It comes with a large number of applications, browser plugins and media codecs as standard software. Despite these enhancements Legacy OS is still perfectly suitable for installation on older and low-resource computers, as well as modern hardware.
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| 2011-06-02 |
Distribution Release: Legacy OS 2 |
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John Van Gaans has announced the release of Legacy OS 2, a Puppy-based distribution for older computers: "After 9 months of development, today sees the release of Legacy OS 2. With this release comes a host of improvements over Legacy OS. The focus was to look at all aspects of Legacy OS and make improvements. We started by looking at the default desktop and the GTK+ and KDE themes it used. It was decided to create a pleasant neutral look to tie all the included applications together. A desktop environment that was easy on the eye and usable every day. The look had to be usable for those who want or need to use Legacy OS 2 as their main operating system. While the GTK+ and KDE themes share common elements, there are differences by design. You'll only find one window manager (IceWM), One IceWM, GTK+ and KDE theme. The goal was to keep it as simple as possible. We didn't want to confuse new users with multiple options. Next was the look and feel of the applications." Read the full release announcement for further information about the release, list of the main packages included, as well as download links.
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| 2010-09-03 |
Distribution Release: Legacy OS 2010 |
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Legacy OS is a new name of a distribution formerly known as TEENpup Linux, a Puppy-based operating system for older computers. Version 2010 was released yesterday: "After eight months of development I am proud to offer Legacy OS for download. This release marks the moving away of Legacy OS from a teenager distro to a distro whose sole purpose is to rescue 5- to 10-year old PCs and laptops from ending up in landfill. To do this it has to be usable in a real-world environment and provide compliance with current online standards. Legacy OS comes with Opera 10.10 web browser as default which is also the default email client. Some system files have been updated to allow the current version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Java 1.6 and other required plugins and codecs to operate in what in reality is a legacy operating system." Visit the project's home page to read the full release announcement. The 697 MB live CD image is available for direct download via Softpedia.
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| 2010-02-23 |
Development Release: TEENpup 2010 Beta |
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John Van Gaans has released the first beta of TEENpup 2010, a Puppy-based distribution with IceWM and KDE 3 applications, designed primarily for netbooks: "TEENpup 2010 Beta has been released. This release of TEENpup will find a number of new friends with netbooks. Originally I started developing this release of TEENpup for use on my Eee PC as I wasn't happy with the choices available at time. I also still wanted TEENpup 2010 to be usable for all PCs not just netbooks. Anyone looking for a fast version of Linux with a good selection of applications that only takes up about 1.1 GB of space installed on their Eee PC's hard drive should give TEENpup 2010 a try. What's included? K3B, Amarok, SMPlayer, Digikam, Kooka, Kontact, KWord, KSpread, KPresent, Konqueror, KTorrent, Krusader, Kolourpaint, kPDF, Opera 10 with Flash 10, AbiWord, Gnumeric, Scribus, Inkscape, Skype...." Visit the distribution's home page to read the release announcement; there is also some extra information in this forum post. Download: TEENpup2010minibeta.iso (344MB).
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| 2009-06-11 |
Distribution Release: TEENpup Linux 2009 |
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John Van Gaans has announced the release of TEENpup Linux 2009 "Legacy", a general-purpose desktop distribution for older computers based on Puppy Linux: "Today sees the fifth release of TEENpup and once again it's based on Puppy 2.14. This time the ISO image has grown to just under 700 MB so that it will fit on a CD. As the focus for TEENpup has shifted to a modern operating system for older PCs which most likely only came with a CD drive, it was felt that a 700MB size limit should be adhered to. To attract users from Windows, TEENpup's default color scheme has been modeled on some of Vista's coloring. Also, there's something I created called 'Magic Scripts', which is a drag & drop arrangement - all you do is drag & drop, say, an audio or video file and it will allow you to convert it to another format." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download: TEENpup2009Legacy.iso (696MB, MD5).
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