Lycoris (company)

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

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]

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^[6] that was shipped with the software.^[7]

References

^ Distrowatch.lafox.net Archived 2007-08-10 at archive.today
^ "DistroWatch.com: Lycoris Desktop/LX". distrowatch.com. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
^ "DesktopLinux.com interviews Redmond Linux CTO Joseph Cheek". Archived from the original on 2001-12-17. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Linux.com :: Redmond Linux: Stripped-down Linux business aims at desktop newbies". linux.com. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
^ "Mandriva acquires Lycoris, boosts US presence, desktop prowess". Archived from the original on 2005-06-17. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
^ "lycoris1.jpg". osnews.com. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
^ "The Little Penguin That Could - TIME". Time. Archived from the original on March 8, 2005. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

[1] Distrowatch.lafox.net Archived 2007-08-10 at archive.today

[2] "DistroWatch.com: Lycoris Desktop/LX". distrowatch.com. Retrieved 2023-05-09.

[desktoplinux-3] "DesktopLinux.com interviews Redmond Linux CTO Joseph Cheek". Archived from the original on 2001-12-17. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

[linux-4] "Linux.com :: Redmond Linux: Stripped-down Linux business aims at desktop newbies". linux.com. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

[desktoplinux2-5] "Mandriva acquires Lycoris, boosts US presence, desktop prowess". Archived from the original on 2005-06-17. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

[osnews-6] "lycoris1.jpg". osnews.com. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

[time-7] "The Little Penguin That Could - TIME". Time. Archived from the original on March 8, 2005. Retrieved 2015-10-18.

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