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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Eugenia, please do some homework before writing a review. There are too many errors in the article, which may easily mislead people.
"However, I hope that future versions of Lycoris will use a file automatically for their swap space instead of a real partition - in addition to the / partition. This will greatly simplify the installation process for many users and won't fragment their hard drives."
Having a separate swap partition is one of many reasons why GNU/Linux is faster than Windows. The swap data is kept in one fixed place, where it cannot be mixed (i.e. fragmented) with other data. Swap data is accessed differently from regular data, and keeping it on a separate partition allows it to have a filesystem specially optimised for swap. Why use GNU/Linux if it's crippled to be like Windows? That would make it no better than Lindows, which tries so hard to be like Windows that it runs everything in superuser (root) mode.
"Lycoris does not reset (cold boot) the PC"
I think you mean "warm boot". A cold boot is when you cut the power and reinstate it.
"Also, the other media player included, NotATun, did not work for me at all."
It's spelt "Noatun".
"Downloading RPMs from the web did not work well..."
Lycoris is based on Caldera. You need to use Caldera RPMs. Almost all of the RPMs available on the web are made for Red Hat.
"And speaking about consistency in a desktop environment, I would also welcome the addition of a GTK+ theme that looks identical to the main Qt/KDE theme, so at least Gnome and KDE applications would look the same. This will allow apps like Gnumeric or Abiword or even Evolution to look "Lycoris native"."
Gnumeric and Evolution won't work in Lycoris because they need GNOME, which Lycoris doesn't include.
Sorry if I sound a bit harsh, I'm just trying to give some constructive criticism.