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Legacy Distribution Report

Background:

The name of distribution I chose is call Legacy, which designed basic on “Puppy Linux”. This operation system used to design for the teenage users. But when the designer left his organization, the documents about this operation system has been lost, therefore, the way of this operation systems is not well understood by users. And the name of designer became mystery. (1)

However, mystery does not affect ardentness from computer users. After many years’ development, Legacy OS already became a powerful operation system; it contains numerous applications, web browser plug in and media decoder as its basic application for operation system, it trend to be a common OS for all computer users.

Except those, Legacy is total free, anyone can download it from its official website and the iso file for this OS is around 730MB.

Installation/Startup:

When I am using VM fusion to start up this system, it took five seconds to prepare the installation, and then executing and initializing the system that took less then 20 seconds. After everything prepared, there is an interface ask user to choose the keyboard type. After choose the keyboard type, there also has a welcome interface, when user chose OK, it jumps to the monitor adjustment and ask user choose the resolution for LCD panel and then for screen maximum.

Users can choose test, which is for preview the maximum resolution or choose exit to skip this step. During the interface for choose keyboard type and resolution, the screen may shakes until user log into the desktop. After finishing steps above, users now can enter the desktop of this system.

Basic Operation:

Here is a screen shot for Legacy desktop; it’s clean and comfortable. The First button is like “Start” in windows, second one is “show desktop”; and then volume controller, music, media, photo and main folder. When user click the “blue upper mark”, it will appears a list which include some favorite application, folder and system operation such as calculator, internet browser, Email and Terminal. Those numbers 1 to 4 stand 4 different desktops. Which means user owner twice more desktops than Lion OS of Mac.

On the right bottom, there are some options; first one looks like a blank box that is the process manager, which monitor the activity of CPU. When users click it, there is a windows display the information of process activity just like “ps” command in Ubuntu. Right near the blank box is the shortcut of e-mail; clock appears after e-mail. Also, there is an option to hide the menu bar, which is the right arrow mark behind the clock.

When users click the “Applications”, there is a list for many applications and control operations.