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United Linux Dead

Posted by michael on from the no-business-like-sco-business dept.

DesScorp writes "ZDnet has a story about the impending demise of United Linux, with former general manager Paula Hunter stating that 'the legal entity still exists but I turned the lights out'. While a couple of reasons were given for UL's demise, most of the blame was firmly laid on the shoulders of SCO. As a member of group, their lawsuits killed off any real product development. SCO apparently refused to resign from UL, and Hunter said that 'As long as they remained a member, it remained impossible for us to begin new projects'. Which brings up the question, couldn't the other group members have kicked them out?"

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  1. Slightly off topic by jlechem · · Score: 5, Informative

    I live in Utah and we have a little weekly paper calld the Salt Lake City Weekly. This week they had an article on the whole SCO debacle. It can be read here. Not a whole lot on the UL effort but an intereting read into the shennagings going on here. I just was reading it on lunch at work and came back to this.

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  2. The replacement is already here by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5, Informative
    The UserLinux project is United Linux done right. Debian base, broad membership rather than just 4 companies, equal partnership for all, nobody locked out. Please check out the planning wiki at http://userlinux.com/ . We will coordinate our release with that of Debian "Sarge".

    Thanks

    Bruce

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  3. Re:Question #4 from the SCO "Linux Q & A".... by MuParadigm · · Score: 5, Informative


    What obligations? Paying SuSE? The UL base was pretty much created and maintained by SuSE, with the other vendors supposedly making their own "add-on" modifications. I don't think SCO/Caldera ever actually added anything, though.

    Hell, SCO never even changed the name on the kernel source package, which stated pretty clearly that it came from SUSE.

  4. Not dead - just renamed - DLWG by swordboy · · Score: 4, Informative

    They just reincarnated as Desktop Linux Working Group. No SCO this time...

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  5. From the article... by atari2600 · · Score: 3, Informative

    SCO's Linux reversal isn't the only change, though. SuSE Linux, whose software formed the foundation for a version shared by all four companies, has been acquired by Novell. Along with that acquisition will come an endorsement from IBM, the loudest Linux advocate, in the form of a $50 million investment in Novell.

    So you see - there are other things too that matter(ed) here.
  6. Re:Dead? by pr0c · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Otter: TurboLinux is essentially gone, I haven't heard a peep about Connectiva in at least a year"

    TurboLinux recently released TurboLinux 10 just a few months ago, they aren't gone.. they've been fairly active too.

    Connectiva just recently released Conectiva Linux 10 TP2 2 days ago.

    Both of these distros are not dead! They have pretty up to date packages and all!