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UnitedLinux Ready for Official Launch

Posted by Hemos on from the roll-out-the-yet-another-distro-carpet dept.

Anonymous Coward writes " PCWORLD has the word that UnitedLinux has completed beta testing of the first release of its open source Linux operating system and is ready to launch the product as planned next month, said company manager Paula Hunter Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Frankfurt, Germany."

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  1. *yawn* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll stick with RedHat myself. And let me tell you, corporations will do the same. Why? RedHat's proven. UnitedLinux (I thought it was just supposed to be a body of standards? Eh?) isn't. They'd best hope they have the venture capital to stick it out.

    That said, what ever happened to Random Love or whatnot?

  2. Re:IMHO by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real question is, given the 1.0 release is less buggy, would you be willing to pay for it?

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    Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.

  3. UL vs RedHat by Diabolical · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why do people try to put UL and RH against each other? UL is een open initiative in which Linux distro's can participate. This includes RH. So i don't understand the fuss.. what i do know is that people are still thinking that RH is big in the entire world. IT'S NOT!!!. Here in Europe SuSE is one of the biggest distro's and RedHat is, although known to most, over here what SuSE is to u in the US.

    Furthermore, the fact that this UL distro looks like a mix of SuSE and SCO's linux distro is because they put the most effort in this for the moment.

    It remains to be seen if this initiative attracts ISV though. And that is not because of lack of support but more an economical reason. Since it is not easy in this economical climate most ISV would rather stay on the beaten path then try to find new roads..