Lycoris

Lycoris

[Amin]

Hi,

Has anyone used Lycoris?  What's the word on the vine about it?  The 
website would have us believe that it's bringing about a ``revolution'' 
in desktop Linux.  If it's as good as advertised, what's going on out there?

Yawar Amin

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Re: Lycoris

[Arthur Othieno]

Hello Amin,

I've heard about Lycoris but not used it. This URL from DistroWatch has 
a couple of links to (user?) reviews, so hopefully that should provide 
some more insight:

http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Lycoris

HTH,

Arthur

Amin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone used Lycoris?  What's the word on the vine about it?  The 
> website would have us believe that it's bringing about a ``revolution'' 
> in desktop Linux.  If it's as good as advertised, what's going on out 
> there?
> 
> Yawar Amin

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Re: Lycoris

[James Miller]

On 28 Feb 2003, Amin wrote:
> Has anyone used Lycoris?  What's the word on the vine about it?  The
> website would have us believe that it's bringing about a ``revolution''
> in desktop Linux.  If it's as good as advertised, what's going on out there?
>
I've used Lycoris. It's one of those *real* newbie distros. Automated
install, with no choices for packages during install. Comes with KDE
desktop - no other choices. Comes with a pretty good selection of apps -
for the most part one each for any possible task. WINE is installed
and preconfigured. It's obviously meant to make first time install less
bothersome for the inexperienced. I believe it's based on OpenLinux. For
the absolute newbie, it's probably the distro to use (absolute newbie is a
relative term, I know. I mean by it: the desktop productivity computer
user who is familiar with the other popular O$ from the user perspective.
I don't mean the techie/sys admin wanting to migrate to Linux from the
other O$). When I decided to go with Linux full time, having fiddled with
it to some degree previously and being familiar with its daunting learning
curve, I decided to go with this distro (Lycoris). Had it not been for the
fact that, due to some mysterious hardware glitch that I could not resolve
even with the help of Lycoris' tech support, I could not get the OS to
install on one of my computers, I might still be using Lycoris. Not being
able to install it forced me to keep looking, and learning more. Now,
having learned more about Linux and having come to prefer certain apps, I
would not want to use Lycoris. It's too restrictive. I'd have to spend too
much time and energy penetrating the vanilla coating they've put on Linux
to get it set up the way I want it: that kind of defeats the purpose of
using it. But as far as distros that make the computing experience under
Linux as M$-like as possible - in both its good (ease of use) and bad
(lack of tweakability) aspects - this one is among the best. And of course
even in its bad aspects (tweak unfriendliness) it's not nearly as bad as
that other O$. It's just counterproductive to have to spend time
undoing what the distro's creators did to gear it toward the user base
they're targeting.

James

PS It even lets you play solitaire during install! Try *that* with Debian!

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Re: Lycoris

[Andrew Langdon-Davies]

James Miller wrote:

>On 28 Feb 2003, Amin wrote:
>  
>
>>Has anyone used Lycoris?  What's the word on the vine about it?  The
>>website would have us believe that it's bringing about a ``revolution''
>>in desktop Linux.  If it's as good as advertised, what's going on out there?
>>
>>    
>>
>I've used Lycoris. It's one of those *real* newbie distros. Automated
>install, with no choices for packages during install. Comes with KDE
>desktop - no other choices. Comes with a pretty good selection of apps -
>for the most part one each for any possible task. WINE is installed
>and preconfigured. It's obviously meant to make first time install less
>bothersome for the inexperienced. I believe it's based on OpenLinux. For
>the absolute newbie, it's probably the distro to use (absolute newbie is a
>relative term, I know. I mean by it: the desktop productivity computer
>user who is familiar with the other popular O$ from the user perspective.
>I don't mean the techie/sys admin wanting to migrate to Linux from the
>other O$). When I decided to go with Linux full time, having fiddled with
>it to some degree previously and being familiar with its daunting learning
>curve, I decided to go with this distro (Lycoris). Had it not been for the
>fact that, due to some mysterious hardware glitch that I could not resolve
>even with the help of Lycoris' tech support, I could not get the OS to
>install on one of my computers, I might still be using Lycoris. Not being
>able to install it forced me to keep looking, and learning more. Now,
>having learned more about Linux and having come to prefer certain apps, I
>would not want to use Lycoris. It's too restrictive. I'd have to spend too
>much time and energy penetrating the vanilla coating they've put on Linux
>to get it set up the way I want it: that kind of defeats the purpose of
>using it. But as far as distros that make the computing experience under
>Linux as M$-like as possible - in both its good (ease of use) and bad
>(lack of tweakability) aspects - this one is among the best. And of course
>even in its bad aspects (tweak unfriendliness) it's not nearly as bad as
>that other O$. It's just counterproductive to have to spend time
>undoing what the distro's creators did to gear it toward the user base
>they're targeting.
>
>James
>
>PS It even lets you play solitaire during install! Try *that* with Debian!
>
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>
Can anyone tell me if the Lycoris installation program will let me 
choose where to install ? I need to respect an existing Windows 
installation.
TIA
Andrew

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RE: Lycoris

[James Miller]

> Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if the Lycoris installation program will let me
> choose where to install ? I need to respect an existing Windows
> installation.

As I'm recalling, if you choose the "advanced" option, you get a choice of
partitions on which to install. I seem to recall a fundamental unclarity
in this part of the process: I was trying to add a partition to be visible
or bootable, and it ended up getting flagged as a target partition and got
formatted instead. Probably best to only let the install routine be
concerned with the target (install) partition(s), and add any other partitions
you want to be visible or bootable later. Lycoris uses GRUB for a bootloader,
btw. Anyway, this option (of not just letting it take over the whole disk) is
not for the faint of heart.

James

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Re: Lycoris

[Robert Todd]

Originally to: James Miller

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:39:46 -0500, JAMES MILLER wrote:

>I've used Lycoris. It's one of those *real* newbie distros. Automated
>install, with no choices for packages during install. Comes with KDE
>desktop - no other choices. Comes with a pretty good selection of apps -

James, do you have a URL so that one can download this?  TIA!

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Re: Lycoris

[James Miller]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Robert Todd wrote:

> Originally to: James Miller
>
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:39:46 -0500, JAMES MILLER wrote:
>
> >I've used Lycoris. It's one of those *real* newbie distros. Automated
> >install, with no choices for packages during install. Comes with KDE
> >desktop - no other choices. Comes with a pretty good selection of apps -
>
> James, do you have a URL so that one can download this?  TIA!
>
Try http://www.lycoris.org/download.php?op=viewdownload&cid=8 . If you run
into problems downloading or don't have a fast enough connection, the
latest Lycoris release (build 46, I believe) is available on CD for .99 plus
$1.50 shipping from Edmunds Enterprises.

James
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