Craig from Gui-Lords.org engaged Joseph Cheek, CTO of Redmond Linux (recently renamed ‘Lycoris’), in a 10 question interview. Along with some nice screen shots, Gui-Lords invites you to learn about this new distro.
Interview with Joseph Cheek of Redmond Linux
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Can anyone comment on how well this distro compares to Mandrake 8.1?
I run Mandrake 8.1 on a home system. My only experience & comparison was that the Redmond installation totally bombed out on me. It was an older release-candidate, so I’m looking forward to trying again…
I have used both Mandrake 8.1 and Redmondlinux. I have used mandrake for years, and the 8.1 version longer than I used Redmond Linux. Redmond linux is better in my opinion. Its still a new distro though, a few things in the installation and management are still on the rough side. A very promising desktop overall. Dunno about the server-end, that’s what Redhat is there for.
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Sorry about that — that comment was to the wrong thread.
OK.. due to this news bit here, I D/Led Redmond to give it a try.
I took a spare SCSI-drive in order not to mess up my system.
I craeted two partitions, in the first I installed XP, because I was curious whether MS would f*ck up the Linux installation/ the boot loader afterwards.
I had already quite a few distros on my system, but I am not too happy with this since it wants to be newbie-friendly.
This is my Hardware:
BX-Mobo
Quadro 2 Pro
Adaptec 39160
Intel GBit NIC
SB Platinum
First off, Redmond did not recognize the 2nd free partition, although this is an option available to the disk manger. I had to choose the manual partition setup, this is not exactly newbie friendly. It wouldn’t create a Swap automatically in this case either, of course.
It did recognize the Quadro 2 Pro, which was nice to see as for ex. SuSE 7.1 didn’t do this, Mandrake 8.0 either (I know, it’s not current).
What was really disappointing to see was the missing support for the GBit NIC. XP recognized this automatically and I think any Distro should be up to date with this.
Well, lets boot it, shouldn’t we..?
Hmm… It loaded the desktop back ground and hanged there. Changing user to Admin didn’t work, because allegedly I used the wrong password – quite unlikely, as I used ‘aaaaaa’ for any and all test installations for my entire life – I don’t how I could mess up on this one.
So I ended up with a completely useless system for starters, hanginging at the desktop loading procedure…
I think any MS can be installed a lot easier as the user hardly has to do anything about it.. this is true for Mandrake + SuSE as well, btw, but this one simply messed it up… If this would be a first time Linux experience of a newbie, what would he do? Probably never touch it again…
Next distro please…