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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. Benefits? by GreatDave · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The main benefit of UL is that it will present a united spec to compete against Red Hat. From the ISV and hardware vendor perspective, this is good, because there will be only two Linux distro specs being used in the business world where they will hawk their goods. Debian ought to count as a third but it doesn't have the marketshare or mindshare (except among diehard admins, of course).

    Only good can come of this, though I really don't see UL being able to overcome Red Hat.

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