From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Langdon-Davies Subject: Re: Lycoris Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:25:52 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E5FA9B0.3030209@arrakis.es> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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! > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs