lycoris

[Michael Hipp]

In addition to everything Lee said ...

- The menu's are organized logically and with prose names like "CD
Player" or somesuch rather than the consonant-laden gibberish that
passes for menus on most distros.

- Most all the options that a user might want to configure are in one
GUI config tool and in logical places with sensible names.

- They focus their energy on perfecting one GUI instead of 2 or 10.

- It turns to advantage inter-operability on a Windows network rather
than treating it like a begrudged afterthought.

- They offer mainly 1 (fairly good) choice in each application rather
than 3 or 30.

- For what is essentially still a beta release, it is very stable and
predictable. Solid - like you expect Linux to be.


On Thu, 30 May 2002 00:18:35 -0400
Lee <rathaus at gtcom.net> wrote:

> Start with the install GUI. Pure Caldera. If you didn't know that it
> was Redmond you'd swear you were installing e2.4 except it does a
> better job of auto detecting. Once installed the GUI bootup is Caldera
> except that it says Redmond where Caldera would normally be presented.
> Once installed it runs as smooth as silk although a little slow
> opening up the bundled Mozilla browser. Put the boot in the mbr for a
> dual boot and the boot selection screen is pure caldera.I installed it
> on a box that had e2.4 on it, but there were some annoying bugs like
> Netscape mail would drop out on an irregular basis when I hit Get
> Message. That doesn't happen with Redmond. It has a few things in the
> distro that are kind of neat. The cd burner runs straight out of the
> package with my iomega burner, so does the camera photo package. And
> unlike 3.1 getting the cdrom and floppy icons is not a hassle. All you
> have to do is drop and drag the icons out of the My Linux icon. Built
> on the 2.4.14 kernel the thing appears to be Super 2.4, but Caldera
> never went that way and they missed the boat. It is nice to know that
> after Caldera folds there will still be a Caldera like distro out
> there.