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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> a Konqueror torture test, filemanaging speeds, overall speeds,
Expect what you would expect for any other ext3-based with a stock kernel distro. Nothing exceptionally different about this distro to mention. KDE and C++ still has the LD problems, therefore KDE is as slow as in any other distro or installation that is not object prelinked.
> resources use,
Check the screenshot, I have "top" running.
> drag&drop behaviour
This is just a KDE thing. As long an application is 100% based on Kparts and the KDE tech, expect the D&D to work fine. Don't expect it to work between Gnome and KDE apps, as they based on different toolkits.
Things like that is one of the reasons I advise Lycoris to take active development role as meta-maintainers of their software.
> and TTfonts rendering
Lycoris uses the stock TTF rendering as done on XFree 4.01. Pretty badly done overall, it has bad AA quality (the "b" in the menu font misses pixels etc). In the screenshots I include, the fonts are rendering much better than the standard X/Lycoris, because I manually installed the http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=760">Xft .