I had the finished version hanging around for six months before I installed it on my Intel 810. The thing really impressed me. This is the desktop that Caldera should have built as it seems to be a logical extension of e2.4's virtues without the bugs. Kernel-wise it's built on the 2.4.14 kernel. Installation was a snap, and this was on a box that would not only not install 3.1 or LTP but sent me an error message that said these two Caldera distros couldn't be installed on the machine (intel mb with 810e chipset, 366mhz cpu, 512 meg memory). If anything the installation was a little too easy. Almost Windowese. It did fail to find my printer and modem, but both were on the menu list during install. Two feature that really impressed me were the bundled packages for taking photos and the cd burner. I have a fondness for iomega burners and haven't had too much luck with them on Linux. Was delighted to find after installation that the burner package installed and was set up to identify my burner and burn copies on the fly. The first thing I did was burn a copy of the Redmond (Lycoris) install cd. A couple of minor annoyances. The distro only comes with the Mozilla browser. If you download Netscape 6.2 Mozilla takes it over, but I can live with that and downloaded Opera as my backup browser. The other weird thing is that the distro comes bundled with the frontend of the Sane scanner program, but not the backend.
All in all I think it's a damned good distro. As I said before it's the desktop Caldera should have made. Lee Ken Moffat wrote: > > Any opinions on Lycoris linux? Is this the Redmond linux release? I see they are >selling HP's with it preloaded. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
