Re: Lycoris

[Andrew Langdon-Davies <ald2@arrakis.es>]

James Miller wrote:

>On 28 Feb 2003, Amin wrote:
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>>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?
>>
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>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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