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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well, if a user was good enough to place a new kernel in and do a custom install, they could install shared libs with the RPMs.
yes you get bloat on the drive, and yes it takes up more memory, but nothing is simpler to install for an end user.
perhaps when every distrobution is LSB complient, it will not be an issue because people will program to the LSB and you will no longer have to worry about missing libs, but untill then...options for simplicity are small.