LinuxConsole is an operating system built for older computers with the aim of transforming those PCs in Linux gaming consoles. A new upgrade for this distro has been made available right now and it comes with a number of important updates.

This particular OS has been around for a long time, but new versions are few and far in between. In fact, the distro was almost dead for three years, but in 2013 the developers have started working again on it and now we have something to test.

It might not seem like much, but the new packages that have been added are quite important and they should have a real effect.

The name of the operating system might be a little confusing, especially since the makers of this OS are saying that you'll have a gaming console at the end of the day.

That would be pretty much true, although there are only a handful of games available in the official repos. On the other hand, the good news is that users can install Steam and get access to a much bigger library.

LinuxConsole is not all about gaming

Even if this Linux distribution is promoted to gamers, it's actually a complete operating system. It comes with all the amenities you might expect from any other OS, like a browser, office tools, and all kind of tools.

"LinuxConsole is primarily designed to turn old and semi-old computers into game console center. The LXDE desktop includes some utilities, scripts to easy install (Firefox 34, Flash Player, and Google chrome), and system-management functions (like installing printers).As a bonus, a lightweight package manager called opkg-gui allows you to install and run stable source-packages to fill out the basis live CD with the last released soft (and non-cut dependencies)."

"According to the goal of old computers revival and stimulation, this distribution works well on old and mid-old computers with low resources (down to 256 MB RAM) : fast boot; runs on old and new video cards (Intel, NVIDIA, ATI); can be turned into live USB; can be installed as a dual-boot system with Windows," reads the official website.

The developers have also upgraded the Linux kernel to version 3.14.26, Xorg is now 1.16.2, Mesa has been upgraded to version 10.2.9, and a few new games have been added to the repository. You can download LinuxConsole 2.3 right now from Softpedia and give it a spin. It's a Live CD and it should work just fine.