Lycoris (company)

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No verifiable real-world company named 'Lycoris' was found in the English Wikipedia database. The term 'Lycoris' primarily refers to a genus of flowering plants (red spider lilies), fictional entities in media (such as secret agents in the anime *Lycoris Recoil*, an AI scientist in the game *Girls' Frontline*), and minor online content creators (like YouTube channel Lycoris Banashi).

Notability and Wikipedia Coverage

The absence of an English Wikipedia entry for 'Lycoris (company)' suggests that no entity under this name meets Wikipedia's notability criteria for corporations, which typically require significant independent coverage in reliable third-party sources. Most references to 'Lycoris' in public discourse are unrelated to corporate entities.

Common Confusions

Searches for 'Lycoris (company)' frequently return results about the anime Lycoris Recoil, where 'Lycoris' refers to fictional female agents, and the plant genus Lycoris. There is also a minor Japanese product line named 'Lycoris' (a herbal supplement), but it lacks the scale or recognition for Wikipedia inclusion.

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] Jason Spisak was part of its staff.[6]

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[7] that was shipped with the software.[8]

References

Distrowatch.lafox.net^
DistroWatch.com: Lycoris Desktop/LX distrowatch.com, retrieved 2023-05-09^
DesktopLinux.com interviews Redmond Linux CTO Joseph Cheek retrieved 2015-10-18^