From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 9 15:59:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E19F37B404 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 15:59:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 175wsy-0006az-00; Thu, 09 May 2002 15:59:44 -0700 Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 15:59:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Finally a Linux with a ports collection In-Reply-To: <3CDAFCDD.9CBA774C@attbi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > What about Lycoris? I met the Lycoris's Joe Cheek at Linuxfest 2002 in Bellingham, Wash. He showed me a few things on his Lycoris system. - the boxed set is in a DVD case; - The menus are task oriented, such as "browse the web" instead of name of application; - You can have some file manager for audio files -- you can choose to rip them to ogg vorbis or mpeg; I think you can hover over a sound file and it wil play a small part. - It included Kword which is a frame-based word processor. I was especially glad to see you can place text in one frame and then create another frame and the text will wrap into it. (Exactly what I was looking for for a long time!) - It has some icon to access windows files: it is a file manager, plus runs programs using wine (automatically); he ran a pinball program (I think comes with Windows). It looked nice and easy to use. I guess you could customize your KDE and wine to behave mostly the same. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message