Lycoris
Lycoris was a Linux - desktop environment and a company . Lycoris is Greek for twilight.
Company history
Joseph Cheek previously worked at Microsoft and Linuxcare . In 2000 he founded Redmond Linux . At the end of 2001 he merged with the "Embedded systems" company DeepLinux and renamed his company the Redmond Linux Corporation . The first operating system was called: "Redmond Linux Personal". In January 2002 the company operated under the name Lycoris . The privately held company is based in Maple Valley , Washington , USA . The best-known product is the Lycoris Desktop / LX, based on "Redmond Linux Personal". On June 16, 2005, it was announced that Mandriva had acquired Lycoris . The Lycoris Desktop / LX was then incorporated into Mandriva and Lycoris discontinued as an independent distribution.
Products
Lycoris Desktop / LX is originally based on Caldera's Workstation 3.1 (Kefk.net: Debian ). Desktop / LX offers Internet access , OpenOffice.org packages, multimedia, and more. The Lycoris desktop and its applications deliberately look like the Microsoft product Windows XP right down to the background image (a lawn landscape with a cloudy sky). A disadvantage of Lycoris is that there is no development tool whatsoever. Included are e.g. B. KDE , a photo editor, media player as well as Mozilla and a PDA synchronization tool for Palm devices. Compare the principle of Lycoris with Xandros or Linspire .
Versions
| version | Build no. | date |
|---|---|---|
| amethyst | Build 43 | December 10, 2001 |
| Update 1 | Build 44 | January 11, 2002 |
| Update 2 | Build 46 | July 27, 2002 |
| Update 3 | Build 168 | February 18, 2004 |
| Version 1.4 | Build 212 | September 13, 2004 |