Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 18th Mar 2002 18:07 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 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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Wrong...
by Anonymous on Mon 18th Mar 2002 21:21 UTC

"Don't expect it to work between Gnome and KDE apps, as they based on different toolkits."


GTK and QT adhere to the XDND protocol which means that you can eg. drag a file from Konq into a Nautilus window.