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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Now, during a usual boot of redmondlinux all you see
is a framebuffer screen with a cheery summary of the
boot up status, but on the "boot" after install the usual
messages were displayed in text mode I noticed a bunch of
rather alarming "Warning: dosfsck on fat32 filesystems
is ALPHA" messages whip up the screen. "gee, am I glad I
backed up recently," I thought. So, they've removed the
need for lengthy fsck on ext2 partitions by using ext3 by
default, then added a lengthy fsck on dos drives using
unproven software. That was about the point I relised this
distro might need a little work yet. I also found konqueror
(in file manager mode) crashed rather more often than I'm
used to (I usually run debian unstable). I'm still telling
newbies to use Mandrake for now. (btw, this was using the
build_44 iso's)