Lycoris (company)

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Lycoris (formerly Redmond Linux Corporation) was an American independent software distributor headquartered in Maple Valley, Washington. [1] [2]

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Background

The company was founded in 2000 as Redmond Linux by Joseph Cheek, an entrepreneur who had previously worked for Linuxcare, [3] with the intent to make free software easy enough for anyone to use. [4] In late 2001, it merged with embedded systems company DeepLinux to become Redmond Linux Corporation. [4] The company's first product was Redmond Linux Personal, a modified version of Linux.

The company was renamed to Lycoris in January 2002 and its assets were acquired by Mandriva on June 15, 2005. [5] Jason Spisak was part of its staff. [6]

Lycoris Desktop/LX

As Lycoris, the company's flagship product was Lycoris Desktop/LX, a Linux distribution. The distribution's installer was originally based on Caldera International's OpenLinux Workstation 3.1 distribution with the rest of the distribution built from the kernel up. [4] The desktop and applications shared a high similarity to Microsoft's Windows XP, including the background image [7] that was shipped with the software. [8]

References

  1. ↑ Distrowatch.lafox.net Archived 2007-08-10 at archive.today
  2. ↑ "DistroWatch.com: Lycoris Desktop/LX". distrowatch.com. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  3. ↑ "DesktopLinux.com interviews Redmond Linux CTO Joseph Cheek". Archived from the original on 2001-12-17. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  4. 1 2 3 "Linux.com :: Redmond Linux: Stripped-down Linux business aims at desktop newbies". linux.com. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  5. ↑ "Mandriva acquires Lycoris, boosts US presence, desktop prowess". Archived from the original on 2005-06-17. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  6. ↑ Hachman, Mark (July 15, 2003). "Lycoris Linux Invades Tablet PCs". eWeek . Retrieved September 8, 2019.
  7. ↑ "lycoris1.jpg". osnews.com. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  8. ↑ "The Little Penguin That Could - TIME". Time. Archived from the original on March 8, 2005. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
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