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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Caldera has a nice installer, but mandrakes is nice too (btw calder is now openlinux not eDesktop). Plus mandrake is a ton faster (comparing mandrake 8.1 vs. caldera openlinux 3.1), it supports pppoe right from the get go (I couldn't get it to work on caldera at all). The only advantages caldera has is the fact wine is integrated (in mandrake you have to integrate it yourself and speaking as a linux newb I had no idea how to do it, actually mandrake didn't even integrate the unzipper properly (at least for me) so their integration sucks :0) and the fact you get links to any non-linux partitions on your desktop along with a link to your cdrom drive (mounting by terminal is a major hassle if your used to windows).