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Comments:
What can I say...this was the first time I had installed Lycoris and needless to say I was impressed with what I saw. As a marketed alternative to Windows which is easy to use and uses styles and configuration tools to help ease Windows users into the Linux world Lycoris does a great job.
As you will notice when you first boot into Lycoris (or from the screenshots) it is made to look a LOT like Windows XP, from the icons and wallpaper to the Control Center. On the desktop you will also find icons for "My Linux System", "Network Browser", and "Personal Files".
One thing I really liked about Lycoris was the network neighborhood like "Network Browser" which I was able to automatically, on first boot, browse and share files with my other samba shares on both my Linux and Windows machines.
Commandline? Who needs a commandline...Everything in Lycoris is configurable from the Control Center. It's a one stop collection for configuring both your desktop settings and your system settings, much like Windows control panel. This will indeed make it easier to newbies who won't have to go to one control center for desktop settings (KDE Control Center) and another seperate control center for system settings (Mandrake Control Center for example). Infact, Lycoris even displaces the KDE Control Center in favor of their own setup.
Another nice feature is the Update Wizard which lets you download updates from the Lycoris ftp site. Unfortunatly though, after running the update from my machine I was unable to boot back into a working system (or there would have been a lot more screenshots). I won't complain too much though since this is still only a beta release and not a finished product, and I was able to retrieve my screenshots by using Knoppix to boot into Linux from the cd and mount my Lycoris partition and copy my files to disk!
Overall Lycoris is a great introduction to Linux for anybody from the Windows or Mac worlds who are curious and want to give it a try.
| Processor: | Dual Pentium II 400 Mhz |
| Memory: | 256 MB |
| *Diskspace: | 2.5 Gigabytes |
| Video Card: | Ati Rage 128 |
| Mouse: | **MS Wireless Optical |
(**)I know, I know...I bought two of them a while ago they were on sale and cheap!