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In the News (Wed 16 Dec 09)

  
  Lycoris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In botany, Lycoris is a genus of family Amaryllidaceae.
Lycoris, formerly Redmond Linux Corp, was started in the year 2000 with a vision of making free software easy enough for anyone to use.
Lycoris Desktop/LX Lycoris Desktop/LX was originally based on Caldera's Workstation 3.1 Linux distribution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lycoris   (270 words)

  
 PbsWiki - Lycoris
Lycoris is a genus in the Amaryllidaceae family from eastern Asia, mainly China and Japan.
Lycoris are splendid autumn-flowering bulbs when their requirements are met, and make excellent garden subjects and provide a good supply of cut flowers.
Lycoris sprengeri and Lycoris radiata radiata Since these happened to be in bloom at the same time, I had to take a photo of them together to show how different in color and form two Lycoris can be.
www.pacificbulbsociety.org /pbswiki/index.php/Lycoris   (549 words)

  
 The Amaryllis Family: Genus Lycoris
The genus Lycoris in the Amaryllis Family (Amaryllidaceae) is native to Asia, and principally to China and Japan.
Lycoris sprengeri is a smaller flower than the others described here, but more than compensates by its vivid color scheme of pink ground color with an electric blue highlight on the petals.
Lycoris chinensis is a rich buttery yellow flower in the spider-form similar to L.
www.shieldsgardens.com /amaryllids/lycoris.html   (695 words)

  
 Linux PR: Redmond Linux Corp. becomes Lycoris and Redmond Linux Personal becomes Desktop/LX.
Lycoris is currently selling this new release as a box set with 60 days of e-mail support for $29.95 plus shipping.
Lycoris, located in Redmond, Washington, was started in the year 2000 with a vision of making Linux easy enough for anyone to use.
His skills aid in positioning Lycoris as a player in the desktop software marketplace and his focus is to bring Open Source, profitability, and usability together under one roof.
linuxpr.com /releases/4422.html   (584 words)

  
 Peace, Love, . . . Lycoris
Lycoris is helping consumers get the same kind of acceptance for their Linux PC as they do with their Windows PC.
Lycoris was the first to put real attention into look and feel and went the extra mile to make users feel comfortable with attractive colors, icons sets and familiar GUI elements.
Lycoris was the first to take an established consumer oriented company like Vivitar that has been making cameras since before we were born, show them Desktop/LX and what Linux has to offer for a strictly desktop piece of hardware like a digital camera, and have them say 'Yes, we'll support that'.
www.desktoplinux.com /articles/AT2541450331.html   (2937 words)

  
 DriverHeaven.net - Lycoris Linux Invades Tablet PCs
Lycoris will announce OEM support for its tablet OS in a few weeks' time, Spisak said, and probably less than a month.
Lycoris designed a "soft keyboard" applet to allow the keyboard-less tablets to be able to enter text, and the devices will have some touchscreen functionality.
Lycoris also coded a battery meter which allows users to gauge how many minutes of battery life the tablet has left.
www.driverheaven.net /showthread.php?t=20563   (427 words)

  
 Lycoris Desktop/LX Review - OSNews.com
Lycoris employs a custom version of Caldera's Lizard application as the installation program.
The version the Lycoris folks sent me for the review is the Desktop/LX version, which includes a single bootable CD in a DVD case with a 28-pages manual.
Lycoris is promoted as a desktop environment and no such software is is to be found either on the CD or on the booting sequence.
www.osnews.com /story.php?news_id=806&page=all   (1051 words)

  
 NewsForge | Now Gamers don't need Windows; Lycoris and TransGaming unleash the GamePak
Lycoris, located in Redmond, Washington, was founded in 2000 with a vision of making Linux simple enough for anyone to use.
Lycoris packages Open Source applications for the consumer market and integrates them into Desktop/LX, their simple, robust Linux desktop.
Lycoris has enjoyed amazingly positive press coverage and has rocketed into the spotlight as the provider of Desktop/LX and the ProductivityPak office suite.
newsvac.newsforge.com /newsvac/03/05/01/1448250.shtml?tid=52   (896 words)

  
 Lycoris Desktop/LX 'Amethyst Version' Review - OSNews.com
Lycoris Desktop/LX operating system, but many releases happened since then and some things have changed.
This time the Lycoris icons (and not the older Redmond Linux ones) are in place in the installer and the OS itself.
Lycoris is able to download and update on the fly new XFree servers, kernels, applications, libraries, you name it.
www.osnews.com /story.php?news_id=1774   (763 words)

  
 NewsForge | Lycoris announces AI2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lycoris was founded in 2000 with a vision of making Linux simple enough for everyone.
Lycoris is positioning itself as the leading provider of the best Linux based operating system specifically targeted for the desktop market, whether purchased separately or pre-installed on Desktop/LX PCs.
Lycoris, Desktop/LX, and AI2 are trademarks of Lycoris in the U.S. and in other countries.
www.newsforge.com /newsvac/04/08/01/1610202.shtml   (625 words)

  
 Linux Muse
As I noted in the previous section, Lycoris uses a re-branded Lizard installer which is fundamentally identical to the original used by Caldera in their 2.4 series distribution.
Lycoris has decent security setup for the likely installation environment: coexistence with an installed base of MS machines, behind a firewall.
Lycoris starts with a KDE desktop that isn't themed like an MS system (although it could be).
www.linuxmuse.com /articles.php?action=printerf&article=12   (3699 words)

  
 Bulbmeister.COM - About Lycoris
Lycoris is represented by 20 species originating from the warmer regions of China, Japan, and East Asia, some species extending into cooler regions.
Lycoris is a winter or spring "grower" producing foliage at this time and gaining growth.
Dormant bulbs can generally be planted in the months July through September, but actively growing plants the other months out of the year do just fine as transplants, and the argument has even been presented that they adapt more quickly to their new environment in this state of growth.
www.bulbmeister.com /genera/lycoris.html   (707 words)

  
 Mandriva acquires Lycoris, boosts US presence, desktop prowess
Similarly, the Lycoris acquisition is likely part of an effort to grow Mandriva's presence and marketshare in North America, where Lycoris's desktop Linux distribution is popular and has been available on retail shelves and bundled with PCs and laptops.
Lycoris, too, has struggled, as was evident from an open letter written by founder/CEO Joseph Cheek last November.
Lycoris was a top candidate for this strategy, and thus Mandriva is extremely pleased to reach this agreement with Lycoris and to have Joseph Cheek joining the team.
www.desktoplinux.com /news/NS6659836508.html   (1224 words)

  
 Introducing Lycoris to U.S. Flower Lovers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Though various Lycoris species have been grown as ornamentals in China, Korea, and Japan for many centuries, only two species are readily available here: L. squamigera and L.
He has hybridized Lycoris, and the new hybrid could eventually be released as new cultivars.
All collected Lycoris germplasm is now maintained in USNA’s Asian Collections by Carole Bordelon, of the Gardens Unit, and in the greenhouse of the Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit in Beltsville, where Roh works.
www.ars.usda.gov /is/AR/archive/dec05/flower1205.htm   (810 words)

  
 NewsForge | Lycoris acquires Mitel SME Server spin-off
Lycoris has successfully concluded negotiations with Phoenix, AZ-based Resource Strategies, Inc. to take over the Contribs.org SME Server project.
Lycoris intends to make a new commercially supported platform based on SME Server available during October, allowing the Redmond, WA-based vendor to provide customers with flexible network server solutions to complement its existing desktop offerings.
The SME Server platform has a chequered commercial history, and Lycoris is the third company to assume control of the project.
business.newsforge.com /business/04/09/28/0233231.shtml?tid=85&tid=74&tid=150&tid=2&tid=49   (704 words)

  
 Datamonitor - Mandriva accelerates Linux desktop push with Lycoris buy - News
Lycoris was founded in 2000 by Joseph Cheek, a former employee of Linuxcare (senior Linux consultant) and Microsoft (network and systems tester), to provide a desktop version of Linux that would be more familiar to Windows shops.
A few weeks later, Lycoris took over the SME Server project, which was administered at contribs.org, and probably hoped to create a Linux server that had the look and feel of Windows Server 2003, much as Desktop/LX has the feel of Windows XP (to the extent that is possible with Linux interfaces).
According to Mandriva, Lycoris had nearly 20,000 individuals who paid for support for Desktop/LX, and the company further estimated that several hundred thousand users were currently using one or another version of Lycoris' software.
www.datamonitor.com /industries/news/article/?pid=D8BA43E3-F091-40F0-BE3B-0D3DD8479589&type=NewsWire   (772 words)

  
 Linux Muse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lycoris debuted in 2000 with a buzz-making new distribution name: Redmond Linux.
From reading in the forums on the Lycoris.org community site, it is apparent that the Lycoris branding will be prominently featured in the next edition in the Amethyst family, which is the pending Build 46 (Lycoris internal designation).
This may reflect the experience of Joe Cheek, Founder and CTO of Lycoris, since he was the co-author of a Caldera Linux book.
www.linuxmuse.com /articles.php?action=section&article=12&num=1   (378 words)

  
 A Quick Look At Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.4 | Tuxme.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lycoris boasts that it is going to make you "Throw away Windows for good and get hooked on the best ever release of Desktop/LX".
Lycoris certainly has the look and advertising campaign going but it wouldn't be my first choice.
Lycoris is trying hard though and it may come down to personal choice.
www.tuxme.com /node/397   (2408 words)

  
 NewsForge | My workstation OS: Lycoris Desktop/LX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lycoris uses KDE version 2.2.2, and GNOME is not included.
Also the Greenhouse (Lycoris user forum) was far and away the most friendly and helpful I had come across up to then.
I have moved on a bit from then, Lycoris is just a tad too Windows oriented for me as I am essentially a Mac user so I currently have my PC dual booting Ubuntu and Lycoris.
os.newsforge.com /os/04/12/13/1513256.shtml?tid=2   (1207 words)

  
 PCWorld.com - Free Agent: Two Linuxes for Newcomers
Xandros Desktop and Lycoris Desktop/LX are two Linux distributions geared toward folks who aren't gearheads.
Xandros keeps it cool with a minimalist blue background, while Lycoris, moving away from the Windows XP-like rolling hills of its previous incarnation, presents you with a view of a tropical paradise.
Lycoris doesn't support the Promise controller that was in my test machine.
www.pcworld.com /reviews/article/0,aid,117856,00.asp   (1775 words)

  
 NewsForge | Mandriva embraces Lycoris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lycoris founder and CEO Joe Cheek may end up as a Mandriva employee, although this is not certain yet, but Mandriva certainly hopes a substantial percentage of Lycoris's approximately 20,000 paying customers join MandrivaClub.
When you come right down to it, Lycoris is nothing but Joe Cheek and what he describes as "a core group of volunteers." The company has never had venture capital funding.
The first iteration of Lycoris was based on Caldera Linux, complete with its unique "play a game while you wait" installer.
os.newsforge.com /os/05/06/15/2030250.shtml?tid=2&tid=138   (1518 words)

  
 Slashdot | Mandriva Buys Assets from Lycoris
According to docs at the Lycoris site, they used to be called "Redmond Linux" and News Forge [newsforge.com] has a late 2001 review of a beta of Redmond Linux [newsforge.com].
I stopped recommending Lycoris to friends and family after the SCO lawsuit, and I suspect I was not alone.
Lycoris is in the same class as Xandros, they have some cool ideas, but no user base to speak of.
linux.slashdot.org /linux/05/06/15/1654244.shtml?tid=163&tid=147&tid=106   (4688 words)

  
 NewsForge | Lycoris Tablet OS Shipping on New Toshiba Tablet PCs for $1899
Lycoris, located in Maple Valley, Washington, was founded in 2000 with a vision of making Linux simple enough for everyone and pioneered the Linux-based home-user desktop.
Lycoris has enjoyed amazingly positive press coverage in Time Magazine and other publications as the provider of the best Linux desktop, whether purchased separately or pre-installed on Desktop/LX Pcs.
Lycoris, Desktop L/X, and Desktop/LX Tablet Edition are a trademarks of Lycoris, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries.
newsvac.newsforge.com /newsvac/03/08/11/2035233.shtml?tid=52   (863 words)

  
 ExtremeTech: Lycoris Linux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I first became interested in Redmond Linux, now officially known as Lycoris Desktop/LX, back in January, when a new release of the distro was officially announced.
As Joseph Cheek, CTO and founder of Lycoris Corp. stated in an interview he gave in December of last year, "Too many times people think that the answer to software usability lies in more software.
The main Lycoris site is located at www.lycoris.com and the new Lycoris Community site-- the portal to interesting downloads and invaluable advice -- is at www.lycoris.org.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdext/is_200202/ai_ziff23186   (1421 words)

  
 Linux PR: Lycoris Growing, Now Offering HP PCs PreLoaded With Desktop/LX
The Lycoris Event Calendar at Lycoris.com is growing rapidly due to the positive press coverage.
Lycoris will be appearing at various Linux and tech community festivals and functions such as The Bellingham Linux Festival April 20th in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and Lycoris Partner Annexa will be representing Lycoris at the ITEC in Rochester New York April 9th and 10th.
Lycoris makes open source applications easy to use and integrates them into Desktop/LX, their Linux desktop.
linuxpr.com /releases/4554.html   (663 words)

  
 ONLamp.com -- Lycoris: A Linux OS Good for Grandma
The developers of a Linux startup, Lycoris, have been trying to make the answer a more likely "yes" with their Linux package.
A year ago, Joseph Cheek, the CTO and founder of Lycoris, began the work of putting together an integrated Linux desktop OS that would be easy to use for almost anyone, including his own grandmother.
Lycoris is all about bringing a simple, straightforward desktop system to the typical consumer.
www.onlamp.com /pub/a/onlamp/2002/07/18/licoris.html   (1714 words)

  
 Linux NetMag - Lycoris Linux   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lycoris has packed all up to date applications for daily use onto just one CD which is installed in 30 minutes.
After the installation the computer does not need to be rebooted but you are asked for your user information to be able to log in.
To achieve high user friendliness and not to scare the new user with dozens of applications there is mostly just one application for each purpose.
www.linuxnetmag.com /en/issue7/m7lycoris1.html   (319 words)

  
 New Linux based OS for handhelds touts ease of use
Lycoris will ship a version of its desktop Linux operating system (OS) designed specifically for handheld devices in Q2, 2004.
Joseph Cheek, a former Microsoft employee, says Lycoris performed extensive trademark research before choosing the "Pocket PC" name.
More details about Desktop/LX Pocket PC Edition will be available at the Lycoris Website when the OS is officially launched on Monday, February 2.
www.linuxdevices.com /news/NS7056225751.html   (512 words)

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