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#21 Post by mavrothal »

Colonel Panic wrote: Opera files aren't very big downloads, so it's easy to try different ones and see which you like best.
True, though they have the files allover the place so unistalling may be probematic.
Cutently I'm posting from pera-9.64-2480.gcc4-static-qt3.i386 :D
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#22 Post by Colonel Panic »

mavrothal wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote: Opera files aren't very big downloads, so it's easy to try different ones and see which you like best.
True, though they have the files allover the place so unistalling may be probematic.
Cutently I'm posting from pera-9.64-2480.gcc4-static-qt3.i386 :D
You don't actually have to install it to use it - just download the tar.gz or tar.bz2 file and then extract it into a directory such as /root/my-applications.

You can then run it straight from there (or create a symlink to it from another directory such as /usr/bin).
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#23 Post by john biles »

Those having trouble with Opera 12 Web Browser may want to try Opera 11.64
Grab it Here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/legacyo ... 0Packages/
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#24 Post by Sage »

Well done, again, john! Just catching up a little; glad to see Opera12 working well with FP with defaults. Had to activate DHCP wired connection - no problem. Did you forget something? No!

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#25 Post by john biles »

Hello Everyone,
Very exciting news forum member MisfitRoxx who is also a Xandros user provided me with a version of Flashplayer 11.2 which had been hacked to allow it to work in Xandros. This in turn has allowed it to also work on Legacy OS 2.1
I have packaged it for Legacy OS 2 and 2.1. I've also packaged the current version of Flashplayer included in Legacy OS 2.1 if thinks go wrong. As per usual it's a tar.gz to be unzipped to /

Grab it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/legacy ... Packages/?
Legacy OS 2017 has been released.

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#26 Post by mavrothal »

john biles wrote:Those having trouble with Opera 12 Web Browser may want to try Opera 11.64
Grab it Here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/legacyo ... 0Packages/
Still have issues with O11.64 in my strange system.
Here is Opera-9.64-static (as a pet) that works for me, in case anybody else has issues too.
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#27 Post by john biles »

Hello mavrothal,
Opera-9.64-static added to Source forge for others to use. Thanks John
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#28 Post by captsunset »

Hi John!

I wanted to let you know that Legacy 2.1 LTS successfully lit up a recalcitrant Acer Aspire 3000, something that several flavors of 'buntus couldn't do. :D (That machine has only a gig of RAM, xp, and a 'mobile' Sempron CPU)

It belongs to an older lady who (unlike most) means to keep it offline to do her personal accounts and she is very interested in the two accounting programs included with 2.1. (She's upset because Quicken and the like have all gotten cloud crazy.) Could be 'cause they are free, too.

I googled for a user manual for the quacc 3.5, and found a lot about quadcopters, but nothing on your quacc except a '84 paper from the U of Wollongong and its name mentioned here in puppyland.

Q: can you tell me where I can find more info on both accounting programs?
They actually look pretty good!


Also, I had two minor setup questions; one is that I can't find anything that looks like a laptop's battery manager software. Am I as dumb as I feel?

The other is that she has a B&W Samsung 2510 laser printer (it qualifies as legacy too, it has both a parallel port and a then new-fangled USB cable). This printer works fine under Ubuntu, so I'm sure I can get it working with Legacy, but its model is skipped over in the setup list, so I just wanted to check if there is some reason before whacking away on it myself.

You've done a brilliant job on this distro!

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#29 Post by john biles »

Hello captsunset,

I added the help manual for kmymoney2 here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/legacy ... Packages/? download it and unzip it to / to use it select help within the kmymoney2 Application.

Info about qhacc here: http://qhacc.sourceforge.net/story.html

From the Applications menu navigate to Printer Management > Printers > Install the Cups Printer System and click on it. Read the Readme and install Cups. While the exact driver version from the Samsung Printer isn't listed try experiments with the versions included as one might suit allowing printing.
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#30 Post by captsunset »

Thanks much John!

uhhm... please gimme a hint- is there a battery monitor there somewhere? :shock:

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#31 Post by john biles »

Hello captsunset,
The Application "Hardinfo" has a battery monitor which may detect your battery. On some laptops it works on others not. Hopefully your one of the lucky ones. John
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#32 Post by ally »

hey JB

have give 2.1 a spin on an old IBM T21 P3 800mhz lappy, really beautiful work (again)

she's all beat up but lovely display and the keyboard is a joy, much nicer than my newer T500

cheers

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#33 Post by nitehawk »

JohnBiles,...
the new LegacyOS 2.1 is pretty terrific! Thanks for all your hard work on this one. I have it on my second computer (Dell optiplex GX150,..pIII--1Ghz--512mb ram)..and Legacy has given it new life. It's much appreciated.

Now if I could just get LegacyOS to work with my computer that runs a 1366x768 monitor. I tried...but it won't give me that resolution :cry:

Oh well,...works on my other computer monitors.

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1366x768 monitor
Yes, indeed. There are some limitations in getting these legacy offerings running on legacy machines. Some old boards do not have an AGP slot, for example. Finding a posh PCI video card (and at a sensible price) is very difficult, even on eBay. Even if the board has on-board video, this is often limited to ~8Mb, maybe less. And that leads on to the memory issue if a memory resident or memory hungry OS like the Puppies is to be used. Again, without unreasonable cost, it is difficult to find even 256Mb SDRAM strips in the 'spares' box. Mine is full of 32/64/128 strips. Many boards are restricted to only two RAM slots making it a struggle to achieve 512MB in total. Another issue is the size of the .iso distribution disc. Many old machines, notably laptops, are limited to accepting CDs. So far john biles has succeeded in meeting the 700Mb boundary - most have not, many don't care! There must come a natural limit consistent with operating speed. Rationality also precludes throwing the $/£ weapon on a system that may soon follow its compatriots to the grave.
But, take heart mon braves, we are not there yet, thanks to the sterling efforts of john, BK, micko and co.

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#35 Post by Puppyt »

John I've been able to download "Gamer", but have attempted 6 times with Legacy OS 2.1 LTS from a range of sourceforge mirrors. I repeatedly get a maximum iso size of 697mb where 730mb is otherwise reported - could you or someone who has successfully downloaded a working iso please provide the MD5? The target machine is a Pentium III laptop with 500MHz CPU and 512Mb RAM, and eXpand "Barbie" 2.14 works fine on it, would love to kit it out properly with your latest,
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Puppyt wrote:John I've been able to download "Gamer", but have attempted 6 times with Legacy OS 2.1 LTS from a range of sourceforge mirrors. I repeatedly get a maximum iso size of 697mb where 730mb is otherwise reported - could you or someone who has successfully downloaded a working iso please provide the MD5? The target machine is a Pentium III laptop with 500MHz CPU and 512Mb RAM, and eXpand "Barbie" 2.14 works fine on it, would love to kit it out properly with your latest,
With Thanks.
My copy of Legacy OS 2.1 LTS, installed on an old P3 is 697 mb and the md5 sum is....

be39a1415afb64fbbc0e47f82933ce99 MD5

0ac1bf6a22f4f44c646e8f7f13889a6094d7cee5 SHA1

56f662d2c30735f1ff22aa11ebc62096c41704d44bdcd2455fce7d7de SHA256

HTH.

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#37 Post by Puppyt »

Thanks James C - this time around I've installed the FF add-on "Downthemall" and included your MD5 in its automatic checksum... fingers crossed I get a valid 697Mb ISO :) Download is pretty slow at present, 20% in 5 minutes...

EDIT corrupted download. Trying again :( ....

No - 3 failed downloads and I'm giving up - I don't have the bandwidth to waste, unfortunately.
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#38 Post by Colonel Panic »

Another good option if you want a browser which works well in Legacy OS2 and OS2.1 is Links 2.

I'm using and posting from it (in the graphics mode) at the moment. It should still be available as a pet (I've had this one for ages).
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#39 Post by James C »

James C wrote:
Puppyt wrote:John I've been able to download "Gamer", but have attempted 6 times with Legacy OS 2.1 LTS from a range of sourceforge mirrors. I repeatedly get a maximum iso size of 697mb where 730mb is otherwise reported - could you or someone who has successfully downloaded a working iso please provide the MD5? The target machine is a Pentium III laptop with 500MHz CPU and 512Mb RAM, and eXpand "Barbie" 2.14 works fine on it, would love to kit it out properly with your latest,
With Thanks.
My copy of Legacy OS 2.1 LTS, installed on an old P3 is 697 mb and the md5 sum is....

be39a1415afb64fbbc0e47f82933ce99 MD5

0ac1bf6a22f4f44c646e8f7f13889a6094d7cee5 SHA1

56f662d2c30735f1ff22aa11ebc62096c41704d44bdcd2455fce7d7de SHA256

HTH.
For whatever it's worth, my copy of Legacy OS 2.1 LTS boots and installed fine but my md5 doesn't match the one from Sourceforge.The one from Sourceforge is
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#40 Post by Puppyt »

Thanks again James C,
yes, I have a match with your Sourceforge MD5 download, which is a relief. However, the other proof of the pudding is just to click on the *.iso file - a valid iso mounts immediately, whereas I get a red warning dialogue "Failed mounting or unmounting".

So I've moved ahead with Legacy Gamer 2.1 as the Opentec RapidFire3 laptop I'm resurrecting (ex military) will be relegated to a babysitting role for my pre-teen kids. Bit of a gordian knot of hardware/driver mismatches, but I've found that Upup Precise 3.7.something works OOTB with alsa etc configured. PMCIA with usb2.0 ports seems to be eluding me for all Puplets tested, not a BIOS issue so looks like another dodgey hardware purchase from China :(

Oh - had Gamer working but without sound properly configured, did a frugal/coexist install to a ext2-partitioned IDE-adapter SD-card with 500mb swap, but got flumoxed somewhere with grub2 and then grub4dos gldr issues from Legacy. (Or was it me, more likely) Something dropped out in the install, but I'm working on it -very sporadically - Cheers :)
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