United Linux: Two Years Later

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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[Progman3K]

This may not be the most popular point-of-view, but I actually really like compiling apps from source.

And with Gentoo, the whole process is insanely easy.

I believe the compile-from-source approach has the added benefit of mostly avoiding the problem you sometimes get with binary packages, where the binary needs a different version of the libs on your system.

True, with really BIG apps, compiling takes hours, but in those cases, there is usually a binary package for the app too in the catalog.