lycoris

[Lee]

I had the finished version hanging around for six months before I
installed it on my Intel 810. The thing really impressed me. This is the
desktop that Caldera should have built as it seems to be a logical
extension of e2.4's virtues without the bugs. Kernel-wise it's built on
the 2.4.14 kernel. Installation was a snap, and this was on a box that
would not only not install 3.1 or LTP but sent me an error message that
said these two Caldera distros couldn't be installed on the machine
(intel mb with 810e chipset, 366mhz cpu, 512 meg memory). If anything
the installation was a little too easy. Almost Windowese. It did fail to
find my printer and modem, but both were on the menu list during
install. Two feature that really impressed me were the bundled packages
for taking photos and the cd burner. I have a fondness for iomega
burners and haven't had too much luck with them on Linux. Was delighted
to find after installation that the burner package installed and was set
up to identify my burner and burn copies on the fly. The first thing I
did was burn a copy of the Redmond (Lycoris) install cd. A couple of
minor annoyances. The distro only comes with the Mozilla browser. If you
download Netscape 6.2 Mozilla takes it over, but I can live with that
and downloaded Opera as my backup browser. The other weird thing is that
the distro comes bundled with the frontend of the Sane scanner program,
but not the backend.

All in all I think it's a damned good distro. As I said before it's the
desktop Caldera should have made.

Lee





Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
> Any opinions on Lycoris linux? Is this the Redmond linux release? I see they are selling HP's with it preloaded.
> _______________________________________________
> Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
> Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.