Lycoris (formerly Redmond Linux Corporation) was an American independent software distributor headquartered in Maple Valley, Washington.
Background
The company was founded in 2000 as Redmond Linux by Joseph Cheek, an entrepreneur who had previously worked for Linuxcare, with the intent to make free software easy enough for anyone to use. In late 2001, it merged with embedded systems company DeepLinux to become Redmond Linux Corporation. Jason Spisak was part of its staff.
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. that was shipped with the software.
