Lycoris Build 62 Beta was released. Joseph Cheek, main developer at Lycoris, wrote a quick changelog: “Kernel printk fix; Mozilla form submit bug fix; Mozilla .rpm mime type fix; new gimp-print, cups 1.1.15; added chown/chmod for give/takeconsole; added newer Gatos ATi drivers; upgraded Autoconf to 2.54 and Automake to 1.5; added Gui devtools install”. Report bugs here.
Lycoris Build 62 Beta Released
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it gets better with every build
Does this thing ever get out of beta, or are beta releases assumed to be good for downloading?
The answer is in the main Lycoris.org page.
Obviously, you don’t try all the builds :-p
Some of them are a pain in the ass, plain and simple, just as the recent 60/61… Well these few people can only do that much, but I will stick with Lycoris as for now, there are quite a few nice things in there which can be fully enjoyed once a few bugs are ironed out…
I’m on build 58, I think, due to the bugs in 60. Perhaps I’ll take a whirl with 62.
Sorry to be so ignorant, but what exaclty *is* Lycoris? Is it a distro? Or a desktop enviornment (GNOME, KDE, etc.)? Or a window manager? It seems to be a mix between the first two.
it’s a just another “world’s greatest desktop” distro, that uses old kde 2.2.2. if they’d ever officially support kde 3.0.x, i’d probably try it again.
They are smart – I hope – and will switch to 3.1;
what’s the name of that linux distro that runs a desktop environment that is based on the netscape libraries?
http://www.oeone.com/
Thanks, i tried to find it at distrowatch.com but it wasn’t listed.
chad,
You have to remember that Joe and the gang developed Lycoris to be stable and solid. Which means that you will not see every latest package available. I would like to mention that when “Beryl” (Amethyst is the current working version) is released Lycoris will be using KDE 3.x. Just my 2 cents.
Yes, Lycoris is a “Joe User” distro. They have five employees or something like that and do a beautiful job. Depending on how you feel about certain things can color your view of Lycoris. They have made an attempt (a very nice attempt) to look like XP, especially in their Control Center, in order, I assume, to give the user something familiar to look at. The end result is a very nice user experience – the GUI has a very friendly, sort of breezy look to it. Their Community site is extremely friendly and helpful and they recently opened up an online download area, although it doesn’t have a lot of apps yet. They do an amazing job for how small they are. And you can play Solataire while it’s installing 🙂 As you can probably tell, it’s my favorite Joe User distro. And yes, I too believe the Beryl release will have KDE 3. I’m looking for ward to that a lot.
Beryl will have the latest available kde at the time of it’s release. meaning, it will have at least kde 3.1.
Also, there is an effort to get apt-get and synaptic working for them….which would be huge!