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Lycoris Desktop/LX update 2 Released

Posted by michael on from the mmmm,-licorice dept.

David writes "Redmond Linux Corp has just released Lycoris Desktop/LX Update 2 (build 46 final). Relatively user-friendly, loads of goodies and nice features. Should give Lindows a run for its money. Who says Linux is dead on the desktop? ;-)"

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  1. Umm by tmark · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Q: Who says Linux is dead on the desktop? ;-)"

    A: Everyone who isn't a Linux chauvinist, OR who doesn't believe that before Linux can be dead on the desktop, it has to first be "alive" on the desktop first. I don't think that Linux even registers as being on the desktop in the orthodox sense.

    N.B. I believe this even though I am writing this from Linux.

    1. Re:Umm by zangdesign · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I would hardly call that "using Linux" - I would call it using a browser. Kudos to your wife for not even pausing to take a breath, but really - the mozilla UI is pretty much standardized on all platforms.

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    2. Re:Umm by Ami+Ganguli · · Score: 5, Insightful
      N.B. I believe this even though I am writing this from Linux.

      Funny, so am I. So there are at least two users who have to switch to away from Linux before it dies on the desktop. I have reason to believe there are a few million more out there like us, so Linux isn't even close to dead on the desktop.

      Linux is making steady, but slow progress. As long as it isn't going backwards (which certainly is not the case) then I don't see anything to worry about. There are enough developers today to keep my Gnome desktop looking cool, and that's all I need.

      Now when will Linux go mainstream on the desktop as it has on the server? Dunno. The conditions keep getting better, but the inertia in the Windows market is incredible.

      What's the rush anyway?

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  2. I know who... by toupsie · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Who says Linux is dead on the desktop? ;-)

    The overwhelming numbers of BSD users do. As I always say, Linux for serving, OpenBSD for firewalling and Mac OS X for when you got to get things done.

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  3. in its infancy by Lewis+Mettler,+Esq. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linux on the desktop is not dead by any means.

    Clearly Microsoft wants to put out the phrase hoping that the weak of mind will believe it.

    But, it is just getting started.

    Lindows and Mandrake have just now shown up on the Wal-mart web site. Sure, DELL was beaten up by Gates and forced to beg off the market for now, but they will return. It may not be until the idiots at Microsoft are forced to comply with the appropriate laws, but it will happen.

    How can you help?

    Help distribute OpenOffice and even help promote StarOffice. Contact your local "beige box boys" and suggest they preload at least OpenOffice with every PC that goes out the door. They can even charge a few dollars extra to have it installed. Windows or linux, it does not matter. It is the benefit to the custom that will help alternative products and linux included.

    If Wal-Mart can sell PCs preloaded with Mandrake and Lindows, then so can the rest of them. And, once competition knows what is expected of them, they will comply. What is gone are the days when an extra $700 of Microsoft software is bundled with each PC that sells. That is no longer necessary. And, the vendors who figure that out will get the business.

    Have you compared Xandros or even the old Corel Linux with the windows explorer? Maybe you should.

    Corel Linux (several years old by now) is just as easy to use as windows ever was. And, currently Xandros is taking it a bit farther. Even farther than Mandrake with its "switch screen" features. It allows the user to log on another screen without logging off the first one. And then, of course, switching back and forth between users.

    Does it matter that Xandros puts out that kind of feature?

    Yes, it does.

    Linux will provide the platform for a whole series of very useful features. A single entity such as Microsoft simply can not and will not do so. Neither will just Mandrake. But, putting RedHat, Mandrake, Corel, eLx, Xandros, Lindows and others all into a highly competitive marketplace will greatly expand that marketplace and provide real benefits for all kinds of consumers.

    Linux on the desktop is not dead. Microsoft might be.

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