Legacy OS

[dos2unix]

I tried this on an old system this morning on an old Athlon 64 system with spindle type HDD drive. ( a whopping 40GB)
4GB of RAM. This system has a floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive, but no USB. The video output is VGA only. GeForce2 MX card.
The Network card is 10/100MB.

I actually have an older 486 system that might boot up, ( I haven't tried in a few years ) but this distro is 64 bit. So I can't
use that system. For some reason, when I think of Legacy systems, I think of 32-bit. But I guess 64-bit desktop computing
is almost 25 years old. ( Why does that make me feel even older )

LegacyOS: PuppyLinux

Puppy Linux Documentation - it's a wiki!

wikka.puppylinux.com

Apparently it's based on PuppyOS? But it looks like antiX to me. It's not bad. It has a very limited package list.
(I think Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora users don't know how spoiled they are! ) I'm even able to browse the internet.
Everything is sloooww.. Probably not because of the OS, but because of old hardware. I don't know that I'm ready to give
up my modern hardware, but it was fun firing up the old hardware.

It feels little like driving a 1933 Plymouth around. It'll get you there, ... eventually... and without A/C, cruise control
and power windows.

 

[DexTheDog]

I tried this on an old system this morning on an old Athlon 64 system with spindle type HDD drive. ( a whopping 40GB)
4GB of RAM. This system has a floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive, but no USB. The video output is VGA only. GeForce2 MX card.
The Network card is 10/100MB.

I actually have an older 486 system that might boot up, ( I haven't tried in a few years ) but this distro is 64 bit. So I can't
use that system. For some reason, when I think of Legacy systems, I think of 32-bit. But I guess 64-bit desktop computing
is almost 25 years old. ( Why does that make me feel even older )

LegacyOS: PuppyLinux

Puppy Linux Documentation - it's a wiki!

wikka.puppylinux.com

Apparently it's based on PuppyOS? But it looks like antiX to me. It's not bad. It has a very limited package list.
(I think Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora users don't know how spoiled they are! ) I'm even able to browse the internet.
Everything is sloooww.. Probably not because of the OS, but because of old hardware. I don't know that I'm ready to give
up my modern hardware, but it was fun firing up the old hardware.

It feels little like driving a 1933 Plymouth around. It'll get you there, ... eventually... and without A/C, cruise control
and power windows.

This would be why it looks like antiX "After a 6 year hiatus LegacyOS is back! Now based on antiX"

 

[Brickwizard]

if its an Athlon 64 or an Athlon x2 then it will run any Linux you like [albeit slow on the bulkier builds], I would go for peppermint, MX, Mint LMDE, or Debian with driver pack, I doubt it is USB bootable [mine wasn't]

 

[DexTheDog]

Same guy made teen pup

Update: TEENpup 2008 was released on the 3rd of March 2008 and became avail: PuppyLinux

Puppy Linux Documentation - it's a wiki!

wikka.puppylinux.com

 

[Deleted member 108694]

I looked at this (LegacyOS) seems to me at 3.2GBs it has some bloat to it

 

[DexTheDog]

I looked at this (LegacyOS) seems to me at 3.2GBs it has some bloat to it

From what I can tell the bloat is applications preinstalled so you dont have to connect to the internet.

 

[osprey]

dos2unix wrote:

This system has a floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive, but no USB.

It may be possible to fit a 'PCI USB' expansion card if you have an internal PCI socket free, and be able to use usbs, but not likely for booting as Brickwizard mentioned.