Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 18th Mar 2002 18:07 UTC
Many companies tried to create a truly easy-to-use Linux distribution, but as they say in Greece "they reached the well, but weren't able to drink water". Corel, Mandrake, Lindows, Xandros, Stormix and many other distros tried or are still trying to bring Linux closer to Windows' ease of use and the millions of the desktop-oriented users. One of the new distributions that has many people impressed so far, is Lycoris (formerly known as 'Redmond Linux'). OSNews tested the latest Lycoris Desktop/LX and here is what we experienced.
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if they can get a community arund them, they would be able to perhaps get somthing like BeBits going and perhaps have their own software development industry. as they are a desktop OS, I can see a huge project to repackage and maintain the free software to be staticly linked so that the Desktop User can install it very easy. yes it takes up disk space, but most normal desktop users do not use more than 10% of their drive.
they can start a site called Lycorwarz an that can be the distribution of the repackaged free software in the static binaries. they can also come up with development standards so that companies that want to create software for their distro will have to follow them...mostly just staticly linking and themeing the software.
it will make Linux as easy as the mac. STATICLY LINK THE BINATRIES...FORGET THE SHARED LIB CRAP...we want KISS applied to the User!!!!