Lycoris (company)

Lycoris (company)

Lycoris, (formerly Redmond Linux Corp.), was started in the year 2000 with the intent to make free software easy enough for anyone to use. [http://www.linux.com/articles/15497] Redmond Linux was founded by Joseph Cheek, an entrepreneur who had previously worked for Linuxcare. [http://desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3599362330.html] In late 2001 it merged with embedded systems company DeepLinux; the merged entity was named Redmond Linux Corporation. [http://www.linux.com/articles/15497] The company's first product was Redmond Linux Personal, an easy-to-use Linux desktop operating system. The company was renamed Lycoris in January 2002 and its assets were acquired by Mandriva on June 15, 2005. [http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6659836508.html ]

The flagship product of Lycoris was Lycoris Desktop/LX, a Linux distribution.The company was based in Maple Valley, Washington, USA. [http://distrowatch.lafox.net/table.php?distribution=lycoris]

Lycoris Desktop/LX

Lycoris Desktop/LX installer was originally based on Caldera's Workstation 3.1 Linux distribution with the rest of the distribution built from the kernel up. [http://www.linux.com/articles/15497] [http://www.linux.com/articles/15497] Desktop/LX loaded ready for Internet access, office productivity, multimedia, entertainment, and more.Fact|date=February 2008 The desktop and applications looked a lot like Microsoft Windows XP, right down to the background image (http://www.osnews.com/img/5517/lycoris1.jpg) that shipped with the software. [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,338704,00.html ]

Lycoris is currently part of Mandriva.

External links

* [http://www4.frugalware.org/pub/linux/distributions/lycoris/pub/linux/desktoplx/iso/update4.iso Download Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.4] 45-day evaluation version


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