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.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Shared object support was added for a VERY good reason- it's because static linkage produces a lot of redundancy and BLOAT as you end up duplicating LOADS of code for no good reason other than you want it to consistently work (which may/may not be the case- the kernel interfaces might just change on you and break that statically linked binary). If you don't understand the background of something, how can you comment intelligently either way?