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United Linux: Two Years Later

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the talk-amongst-yourselves dept.

ajs writes "In November 2002 everyone who wasn't Red Hat was gathering behind a banner that many thought would spell the beginning of a new chapter in the Unix Wars. That banner was called United Linux. Much has changed in the Linux world since then, and some Founding Partners in the United Linux camp have decided that there are other ways to change the market. Thankfully there are more level headed members of that group. Today, we're not so focused on the differences between Linux distributions, Sun's rants, the aforementioned lawsuits and ever-present, market-gobbling Microsoft keep everyone focused and united enough as it is, and United Linux has begun to fade into memory. So what has United Linux done? Well, it unified three distributions at least, focused attention on Linux standards and made hardware vendors feel a bit less lost when writing drivers for Linux, so it wasn't all a loss. Alas, according the the United Linux site, "There are no plans for a version 2.0 at this time.""

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  1. Reminds me of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Reminded me of this:

    #106579 +(506)- [X]

    Topic in #os: hey guyz, stop pickin on irix.
    (SCO) w00t! i bought unix! im gonna b so rich!
    (novell) /msg atnt haha. idiot.
    (novell) whoops. was that out loud?
    (atnt) rotfl
    (ibm) lol
    (SCO) why r u laffin at me?
    (novell) dude, unix is so 10 years ago. linux is in now.
    (SCO) wtf?
    (SCO) hey guyz, i bought caldera, I have linux now.
    (red_hat) haha, your linux sucks.
    (novell) lol
    (atnt) lol
    (ibm) lol
    (SCO) no wayz, i will sell more linux than u!
    (ibm) your linux sucks, you should look at SuSE
    (SuSE) Ja. Wir bilden gutes Linux für IBM.
    (SCO) can we do linux with you?
    (SuSE) Ich bin nicht sicher...
    (ibm) *cough*
    (SuSE) Gut lassen Sie uns vereinigen.
    * SuSE is now SuSE[UL]
    * SCO is now caldera[UL]
    (turbolinux) can we play?
    (conectiva) we're bored... we'll go too.
    (ibm) sure!
    * turbolinux is now turbolinux[UL]
    * conectiva is now conectiva[UL]
    (ibm) redhat: you should join!
    (SuSE[UL]) Ja! Wir sind vereinigtes Linux. Widerstand ist vergeblich.
    (red_hat) haha. no.
    (red_hat) lamers.
    (ibm) what about you debian?
    (debian) we'll discuss it and let you know in 5 years.
    (caldera[UL]) no one wants my linux!
    (turbolinux[UL]) i got owned.
    (caldera[UL]) u all tricked me. linux is lame.
    * caldera[UL] is now known as SCO
    (SCO) i'm going back to unix.
    (SGI) yeah! want to do unix with me?
    (SCO) haha. no. lamer.
    (novell) lol
    (ibm) snap!
    (SGI) :~(
    (SCO) hey, u shut up. im gonna sue u ibm.
    (ibm) wtf?
    (SCO) yea, you stole all the good stuff from unix.
    (red_hat) lol
    (SuSE[UL]) heraus laut lachen
    (ibm) lol
    (SCO) shutup. i'm gonna email all your friends and tell them you suck.
    (ibm) go ahead. baby.
    (SCO) andandand... i revoke your unix! how do you like that?
    (ibm) oh no, you didn't. AIX is forever.
    (novell) actually, we still own unix, you can't do that.
    (SCO) wtf? we bought it from u.
    (novell) whoops. our bad.
    (SCO) i own u. haha
    (SCO) ibm: give me all your AIX now!
    (ibm) whatever. lamer.
    * ibm sets mode +b SCO!*@*
    * SCO has been kicked from #os (own this.)

  2. The $11B company -- my ass. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    From Sun's rant: We're an $11B company trying to become a $50B company.

    Correction, your an $11B company trying not to become a $1 company. Sun, you're so full of shit that it's no wonder you're dying.