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United Linux is Here
pstreck writes "Red Hat watch out! Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE and Turbolinux have made good on their promise and United Linux is here! According to their website 'United Linux is a standards-based Linux operating system targeted at the business user. It is developed, marketed and sold by an experienced partnership of Linux companies.'"
I just don't get it I guess, it just seems like there are already so many standards.
I just don't get it I guess, it just seems like there are already so many standards.
That's the great thing about standards -- there's so many to choose from!
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What standards ? Look at the website, they can't even decide on 1 language...
;-)
VanguardLinux, SouthWestLinux, and QantasLinux!
A bunch of Linux companies making an uber-distro so they can compete with Red Hat should not be called United Linux. To me, it sounds a lot more like Divided Linux.
Why not get the /. community to create the 'standard' distribution?
T.
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Main components * Kernel 2.4.18 or higher * glibc 2.2.5 * gcc 3.1 * XFree86 4.2 * KDE 3.0 * Acrobat Reader From when has Acrobat Reader become this important? And to mention it in the same breath as the kernel and gcc is blasphemy ..ok i could accept emacs ;)
To a large number of people who aren't utter Linux fanatics and don't read /. or other Linux sites to actually understand why, Linux appears fragmented and inconsistent because of the sheer number of players. To remove 4 from the pool of 15 odd companies and come back with one united brand would help against Redhat and Microsoft.
Essentially saying "well you can go with Microsoft OR Redhat or United Linux". Rather than "you can go with Microsoft OR Redhat or Calerda or TurboLinux or Suse or ..."
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Standards That I accpet:
RMS will always attempt to rename any oS using GNU tools.
Linus will always be the head at Linux
RedHat Linux will always Rock!
Sun and IBM still will not get it!
Don't Tread on OpenSource
is that there are so many to choose from" - an expression coined durng the "Unix International" - "Open Software Foundation" war.
Is it june in your part of the world already?
it's in my head
Hmmm, maybe there will be a registration code (can I suggest 5 groups of 5 chars?) and then product activatation... then maybe a tie-in with some kind of virtual ID.. a "passport" if you will.
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In telling them about a bad link on their site, I got a bounced message from another bogus e-mail address on that site. Wow. It's almost like an April Fool's hoax! pr@turbolinux.com SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:: host mail.turbolinux.com [207.88.91.6]: 550 ... User unknown
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:35:34 -0700
To: pr@turbolinux.com
Subject: Bad Link
At: http://unitedlinux.com/en/press/press_releases/uni ted_linux.html
under "Participation and Availability" (near the bottom) the link to
TurboLinux is actually a mailto:unitedlinux@suse.com
You might want to get this fixed.
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Obviously SuSE noticed your wishes and thought they should get them dealt with right away. In a few days, they'll probably right back to say that their luck has been improved for the next release.
I'm sorry. I thought this was slashdot...
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