[CS-FSLUG] A chat with Joseph Cheek

[N. Thompson]

Joseph Cheek is the CEO and founder of Lycoris, one of the Linux distributions 
who's aim is to be easy to use, so easy to use in fact that if anyone has 
trouble figuring out how to use the distribution I'd be dumbfounded.

Lycoris has its disadvantages though, except for its inclusion of Real player 
8 (which will *only* play rm files) it doesn't support any proprietary 
formats. OpenOffice.org is completely separated from the distribution which 
only comes with KOffice, to get OpenOffice.org one has to download it and 
hope it will finally run stably with Desktop/LX or one has to pay $50 USD for 
the "productivity pack" which is just OpenOffice with the icons changed and 
the inclusion of a palm pilot syncing program.

Lycoris comes with few games, unless one buys a game pack from the Lycoris 
store or installs games from the greenhouse package repository, I don't know 
which ones may be in the iris software gallery because I've never had the 
desire to go beyond simply trying the distribution. Lycoris has repackaged 
free games which wouldn't even cost money in windows such as solitaire and 
other card games and they've attached a $20 USD price tag on that.

I liked Lycoris to an extent because its more of an "install it and forget it" 
distribution but the company has some strange ways of ripping off their own 
customers, most of which are happily oblivious of whats going on.

This is one of the issues I may try to discuss with Joseph Cheek during the 
live chat from 5:00 to 6:00 PM PDT if I get home soon enough, I thought some 
of you may also be interested in chatting with him though so I've included a 
link to the article about the live chat below.

http://www.lycoris.org/article.php?sid=267&mode=thread&order=0&PHPSESSID=ed93d43f3d5620b37d26df5a2aa6b4d9