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.""

Comments

United Linux membership

[DaEMoN128]

If you look at UL's website, they SCO is still members of united linux . how ironic

http://www.unitedlinux.com/en/partners/index.html

LSB

[danormsby]

My big hope for United Linux was that if I created a binary it would work under all x86 versions of Linux.

I'm now hoping Linux Standard Base 2.0 will really take off.

United Linux - far from everyone

[dabadab]

"everyone who wasn't Red Hat"

Or Debian, or Slackware, or...
United Linux would be better described as a group of smaller commercial Linux distros.