Lycoris (company)

Template:Short description Lycoris (formerly Redmond Linux Corporation) was an American independent software distributor headquartered in Maple Valley, Washington.<ref>Distrowatch.lafox.net Template:Webarchive</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Background

The company was founded in 2000 as Redmond Linux by Joseph Cheek, an entrepreneur who had previously worked for Linuxcare,<ref name="desktoplinux">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with the intent to make free software easy enough for anyone to use.<ref name="linux">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In late 2001, it merged with embedded systems company DeepLinux to become Redmond Linux Corporation.<ref name="linux" /> 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.<ref name="desktoplinux2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name="linux"/> The desktop and applications shared a high similarity to Microsoft's Windows XP, including the background image<ref name="osnews">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> that was shipped with the software.<ref name="time">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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