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.

Comments

Re:This is a wonderful thing..

[goldspider]

"This gives everyone more competition."

You're absolutely right, more distributions does equal more competition. The problem though, is that these individual distributions are not competing with Microsoft. They are competing against each other.

Perhaps I'm oversimplifying here, but I believe this is a "together we stand, divided we fall" situation. No single distribution will be competetive with Microsoft as long as it has other linux variants to contend with as well.

This consolidation is a step in the right direction. I hope it doesn't turn into Just Another Distribution.