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Lycoris - Anybody tried it?

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Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
I've had it installed and had no problems with hardware, i was downloading the betas week after week (56k as well) eventually the distro got my sound working.

One thing to note is that Lycoris does a Lindows with installing software.  In other words you can go online and select it and it will download and install it for you.

Also Lycoris doesn't use KDE 3 yet, it still uses some version of 2.  There aim is to have a simple distro so it will never develop drivers or anything, just build on established software.

Installer is a bit newbie, it offers basic options on partitioning so be prepared.

O and its very XPish.

You can also pay games on Lycoris as well i think they have a special gamepak developed with WINeX.

DJ:
I used it a bit on an old PII 266 I have but it was so ungodly slow I got mad and used a third HD I have and did a dual boot with RH 8.0 on my main box. This is probably not the fault of Lycoris, but because of the machine (has 64mb RAM as well). So I am currently looking for a lightweight distro to try on that machine (suggestions    )

Anyway HERE is a link to a review someone did on Linux Newbie on Lycoris and Xandros both. It was pretty informative I think, check it out if you like.

Dj

rtgwbmsr:

quote:Originally posted by 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
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I agree with points 1, 2 and 4.
As for 3, it detected my Logitech Trackball USB just fine.
As for 5, my installer had solitare  

Calum:
so, since some of you have used it, i think i'll ask a question or two.

i see that this is redmond linux with a new name. i would never have tried it had i realised, but what with all the rave reviews i am thinking this might be the very thing to replace mandrake with as the 'family desktop' system.

Anyway, i'll be playing with it before i take that drastic step. So:

KDE 2.2, mozilla and so on. Is installation and upgrade of packages going to be easy or hard for me? i know it is easy to do the things you are supposed to do but what if i want to install tarballs, that'll be fine i suppose, but i see that it has rpm support. does that mean red hat rpms and mdk rpms or ONLY redmond rpms? will the 11 CDs of red hat and mandrake rpms come in handy for me or are they going to be dead weight?

GNOME & GTK+ libraries. There's no GNOME so there's no GTK+ i presume. many of my favourite programs are GTK+ ones, so i will need this. again, will i need to install tarballs or can i use rpms, if so need i install the GNOME stuff or can i just use the libraries? and as for the programs themselves, can i install the likes of galeon, gnutella, gftp and gaim on here? or is that just dumb?

and so on.

Nobber:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
if i can get my FreeBSD 4.5 CDs, that might be fun on this machine too.
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I've got a set of three FreeBSD 4.7 discs, if you want them. (The "live" disc is the only one missing.)

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