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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Back a few years ago, I believe it was RH 5.x; I really thought Linux was going somewhere. But I was VERY NOT impressed with RH default WM (fvwm . . . OMG how horrid).
I then downloaded ICEWM. Damn it was fast. It wasn't "easy" to configure, that is unless you could read. I found all its config files and spent nearly 10 whole minutes tweaking it to my likes (theirs GUI tools for that now). But I didn't care for xfm too well, which was *the* X file manager, I always just opened a term and used MC. But I still wanted good GUI file manager that would drag 'n drop, cut n' paste.
Then I found DFM. DFM added almost everything Naughtylust adds to GNOME except its not as pretty, but its 10x faster.
If somebody took the code from ICEWM and DFM, combined the two and added a couple GUI config tools and mime type file recoginion on par with BeOS's . . . then KDE and Gnome would soon be forgotten. IMO.
Of course I haven't use ICEWM in a long time (since BeOS 4.5), and I don't even think DFM is around anymore :-(