a crackpot idea i had

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 13 May 2002 08:27 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
> Scribbling feverishly on May 12, dep managed to emit:
> > hey, gang!
> >
> > y'know what the world needs? yet another linux distribution!
>
<snip>
> > so on. and fact is, the distro i want to be running is caldera 2.4
> > upgraded to the current century.
>
> Joe Cheek's Lycoris (nee Redmond Linux, a near-clone of eDesktop 2.4)
> may come pretty close. I haven't played with it, though.
>

I was thinking this myself...
I HAVE played with it, when it was still RedmondLinux beta (build 36, I think, 
was my last install). IIRC, Lycoris, while it started out life based on 
Sybil, I believe is currently based on eWorkstation 3.1. My recollection of 
it is that it was extremely dumbed-down. the K-Meno had apps listed like, 
Write a Letter, Read E-Mail, instead of KWord and KMail. They were supposed 
to come out with a Professional version, which was supposed to be more 
geek-oriented, but I don't know how far that's come along. I spent a little 
time at Lycoris.com, and lycoris.org and it looks like they have a beta 
version available (Build 45). Perhaps it'd be a good article for 
LinuxAndMain...

Perhaps I'll even install it (once I get grub and/or lilo installed properly 
on my system -- my menu.lst file is located on the partition that houses my 
no longer used eDesktop2.4 installation and I need to move it off of there so 
that I can start "playing" with distro's again... I'm having difficulty 
creating a boot disk, though -- but I digfress, and besides, that's a subject 
for another thread)

> > suppose a recipe for this could be cooked up?
>
> Yup. I don't have time to do it.
>

Didn't Joe Cheek post a little how-to on the Caldera List once upon a time?
Tim

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