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Lycoris - Anybody tried it?

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Calum:
i just ordered a lycoris CD from http://www.creativechanges.uklinux.net/

i just wondered if anybody had tried it (i suspect some have) and if so, what were your thoughts on it? i will be hopefully trying out a few linuces on the laptop now we have a desktop machine and since i am not totally happy yet with red hat or mandrake, it's even possible the desktop machine will end up being a Lycoris machine.

Of course my one huge concern is package management. I like to have a lot of flexibility and ease of use in the options i have for installing and uninstalling stuff, I'll also be looking out for audio/video usability and so on. I see from the lycoris site that they have a kind of GUI a bit like the mandrake and red hat network updaters (but probably not as nice as synaptic when it works, and i think it's a GUI only thing)

Next i think i might try Debian. Or slackware. BUT WAIT! this isn't a 'what's the best distro' thread, i just wondered if you had tried lycoris and what you thought of it.

Faust:
I've tried lycoris/lx
(free on front of magazine 8-) )

1 looks a lot like XP... even has a "control panel" actually not looks like, looks EXACTLY like

2 VERY easy to install and use (works a lot like XP... notice a trend?)  If you just used it a little you could be forgiven for thinking it WAS XP.

3 Couldnt autodetect my mouse... even if i specified what to look for... redhat / mandrake both can

4 very little choice while installing... eg you WILL install kde and nothing else, you WILL install koffice and not open office etcetera. no choice of what packages to install... 8-( probably can change that from within though... I only used it for a little so i have no idea

5 Nice game of tetris to play when its installing

Calum:
i will be bullying it around once it's installed. i suppose it will be an opportunity to try and install gnome from source... and openoffice from source too (or maybe an rpm if i am too dumb)

also sounds like i might get a little practice hand editing my XF86Config file too.

slave:
Calum, if you want gnome use red hat linux because red hat makes the best distro for gnome (they even have several gnome developers employed)  I wouldn't bother trying to compile it from source; it's just too much work.  KDE is all right, and that slicKer project I saw a while back looks promising, but I love Gnome 2 for its stability, speed and simplicity.

Calum:
well the insecurity of GNOME in mandrake 8.2, 9.0 and red hat 8.0 is a good reason why i do NOT use it.

also, i'm going to try out a few OSs on the secondary computer to try and learn a bit, you see, so stability and ease of use aren't quite the priorities they would usually be here. Anyway, i suppose lycoris does not even come with GNOME? it's only one CD (well it's three, but CD1 is the install binaries, CD2 is the source of CD1, and CD3 is the 'DevTools', like kdevelop, which i am NOT up to using yet).

so we'll see. if i can get my FreeBSD 4.5 CDs, that might be fun on this machine too. i haven't used them yet so it'd be a shame not to try them out. 'Course they're in storage six hundred miles away...

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