On 28 Feb 2003, Amin wrote: > Has anyone used Lycoris? What's the word on the vine about it? The > website would have us believe that it's bringing about a ``revolution'' > in desktop Linux. If it's as good as advertised, what's going on out there? > I've used Lycoris. It's one of those *real* newbie distros. Automated install, with no choices for packages during install. Comes with KDE desktop - no other choices. Comes with a pretty good selection of apps - for the most part one each for any possible task. WINE is installed and preconfigured. It's obviously meant to make first time install less bothersome for the inexperienced. I believe it's based on OpenLinux. For the absolute newbie, it's probably the distro to use (absolute newbie is a relative term, I know. I mean by it: the desktop productivity computer user who is familiar with the other popular O$ from the user perspective. I don't mean the techie/sys admin wanting to migrate to Linux from the other O$). When I decided to go with Linux full time, having fiddled with it to some degree previously and being familiar with its daunting learning curve, I decided to go with this distro (Lycoris). Had it not been for the fact that, due to some mysterious hardware glitch that I could not resolve even with the help of Lycoris' tech support, I could not get the OS to install on one of my computers, I might still be using Lycoris. Not being able to install it forced me to keep looking, and learning more. Now, having learned more about Linux and having come to prefer certain apps, I would not want to use Lycoris. It's too restrictive. I'd have to spend too much time and energy penetrating the vanilla coating they've put on Linux to get it set up the way I want it: that kind of defeats the purpose of using it. But as far as distros that make the computing experience under Linux as M$-like as possible - in both its good (ease of use) and bad (lack of tweakability) aspects - this one is among the best. And of course even in its bad aspects (tweak unfriendliness) it's not nearly as bad as that other O$. It's just counterproductive to have to spend time undoing what the distro's creators did to gear it toward the user base they're targeting.
James PS It even lets you play solitaire during install! Try *that* with Debian! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
