Lycoris OS

[bluey]

I hope they, as Mickeyl stated, contribute back with patches...

They must be charging for their icon/wallpaper set...

[doseas]

Interview with the founder of Lycoris here:
http://www.desktopos.com/sections.php?op=v...article&artid=3

[dassa]

Came across this today, a little more info on Lycoris Pocket PC Edition.

http://www.lycoris.org/sections.php?op=vie...ticle&artid=119

Hmmm.. things could get very interesting.

[ScottYelich]

Came across this today, a little more info on Lycoris Pocket PC Edition.

http://www.lycoris.org/sections.php?op=vie...ticle&artid=119

Hmmm.. things could get very interesting.

page comes up with (only):

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Scott

[yzord]

Here\'s the relevant bit:

Development continues on Pocket PC Edition, although it\'s too early to give you more screenshots yet. Pocket PC Edition won\'t be a copy of Desktop/LX with all the bells and whistles stripped out so that it fits on a handheld, it will be a package built from the ground up for mobile computing. We are working hand in hand with developers from handhelds.org, Opie, OpenZaurus and OpenEmbedded, and have contacts inside these existing project to make sure that we not only have solid technology in our products, but that we give back to the community that created them in the first place. All of the changes we make to the open source components of these projects will be given directly back to them, as required by the GPL. I can state that unequivocally because we will be creating those changes in tandem with them - they\'ll hit their CVS or BitKeeper source repositories almost immediately after hitting ours. 

In order to make sure that our products are able to integrate with the desktop version of our operating system, and with others as well, we\'ve got solid contacts within the KDE community as well. We\'ve donated hardware and Internet access, for example, to the developer working on Opie\'s sync framework and KDE\'s KitchenSync program to ensure that not only will Pocket PC Edition sync with Desktop/LX, but with any other KDE desktop, be it SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, or others. 

Pocket PC Edition won\'t be released until after the next Desktop/LX version is finished, but we want to let you know that things are moving along. We greatly appreciate all the enthusiasm we\'ve seen over this product, and welcome your e-mails. I think I\'ve seen more requests to beta test this software product than any other product we\'ve announced. We hope to have something for you to look at soon. When we do, it will be a beautiful work of art, I guarantee. There will also be over a thousand software programs ready for it the day it hits the streets - games, productivity applications, gadgets, and more - thanks to the open source community, all prepackaged, all downloadable, all optimized for your handheld. 

So stock up on those Compact Flash and Secure Digital cards - you\'ll be able to fill dozens of them with software that you can get from Pocket PC Edition\'s version of the Iris Software Gallery. And it\'s all included for free with your copy of Desktop/LX Pocket PC Edition. 

Make of that what you will...
Yz

[CoreyC]

Yz, that sounds good but they also say that they are working closely with the OpenZaurus team.  I think Mickey said that as far as he knows they have never been contacted.

Anything that they can contribute is great, but don\'t expect to see the \'thousands of apps\' that they are claiming, unless they are going to mirror the software that is already available at ZSI

[treke]

Both Opie and the OpenZaurus teams have been contacted by Lycoris. Nothing in particular has come out of Lycoris yet though.

[lardman]

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7056225751.html

Looks like a page of screen shots of Opie to me.

Quoting the top line of said link:

Updated Jan. 31 -- Lycoris will ship a version of its desktop Linux operating system (OS) designed specifically for handheld devices in Q2, 2004. The OS, dubbed Desktop/LX Pocket PC Edition (DL-PPC), will provide a \"commercial-ready\" and user-friendly OS that Lycoris hopes to license to device designers as well as market directly to consumers.

Can a GPL OS (which OZ & Opie = Lycoris afaik is) be licensed to people?

I must admit I\'m not overly impressed seeing things like \"DL-PPC applications\" or \"DL-PPC\'s \"today\" screen\", when these applications are probably actually the very same as the Opie/OZ ones (though if they have in fact been heavily modified I\'ll eat my words).


Simon

[lardman]

Ignore me, obviously old (and slightly skewed) news (I saw the 31, ignored the January :-), just that someone posted the above link in another part of the forum.

I looked at their page - as quoted above - and they do say that they are working with and giving back to OZ/Opie/etc..

It\'s been a long day, I\'ll go back to sleep I think ;-)

Si

[craigtyson]

One year later.  Has anyone seen a commercial version of PPC Lycoris ?

If not then regardles of which ROM you use I think a big thankyou to all the developers of all Z ROMs is in order.  They should be congratulated for sustaining a user base who would be forced into using PPC or PALM instead of having a linux OS which is rich, stable and constantly developing.  Two years ago I bought a 5500 with SHARP's ROM on it.  I couldnt play dvds, or brows the web, or run doom or write in chinese or use bluetooth or......

Today my PC hardly gets used (anyone want to buy a 400MHz AMD Mandrake PC 4GB HDD..... OK I guess not its not like you han put it in your pocket...) I am infact typing this up on a newly aquired 750 running cacko 1.22a but have run OZ and tkc both of which have shown how much effort all "our" developers have put into making the Zaurus a sucess.

Thanks guys.  Im truly impressed keep up the good work.