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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me (poster), I share your taste for that, a polished WindowMaker-centric distro would be great.
http://www.icepack-linux.com/">Icepack 1.0 used WindowMaker as the default window manager, it looked very nice, with a pretty bar at the bottom. Problem for me is that the system was unusable, outrageously unstable. But it was a nice beginning. I haven't tried their latest versions (from 1.1 to version 2)
It isn't just Lycoris, it's the whole KDE design that I don't like much. Putting some XP icons theme there as default makes things even worse: 'I'm getting outta here fast' (I won't even care to change it). The laughs I've had with those XP icons and http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23830.html">a , perfect match!
I like a lot how WindowMaker looks, the icons, all the UI concept. What filemanager would you use? GFM? I don't know if WM has any project for it's own filemanager.