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The company was founded in 2000 as Redmond Linux by Joseph Cheek, an

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who had previously worked for Linuxcare, with the intent to make

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easy enough for anyone to use. In late 2001 it merged with embedded systems company DeepLinux; the merged entity was named Redmond Linux Corporation. The company's first product was Redmond Linux Personal, an easy-to-use

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desktop operating system. The company was renamed to Lycoris in January 2002 and its assets were acquired by

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on June 15, 2005.

Lycoris Desktop/LX

As Lycoris, the company's flagship product was Lycoris Desktop/LX, a

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. The distribution's installer was originally based on

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distribution with the rest of the distribution built from the kernel up. The desktop and applications shared a high similarity to

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, including the background image that was shipped with the software.

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