United linux?

[stickyfingers]

hmm. I got into a debate about this. I said it was not available anymore, ie activly maintained.

I was wrong on a few counts (someone? updates for security patches or basic maintnace to original license purchasers).

Aside from that I always refered to united linux as being a distro (united linux 1.0)
But then I read its not a distro and on suse's website they refer to suse enterprise 8 as being powered by united linux 1.0

my question is mainly what is "united linux" in its current incarnation

[freakmn]

from http://www.unitedlinux.com/

UnitedLinux was formed by Caldera, Conectiva, SUSE LINUX and Turbolinux to build a single, world-wide Linux standard

from http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=united

UnitedLinux is a standards-based, worldwide Linux solution targeted at the business user and developed by The SCO Group, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux. Designed to be an enterprise-class, industry-standard Linux operating system, UL provides a single stable, uniform platform for application development, certification, and deployment and allows Linux vendors, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) to support a single high value Linux offering rather than many different versions.

It appears that it is an attempt to allow manufacturers to make one "version" of their program/driver that will work on all UnitedLinux installs. Some sort of a standard, I think. I'd watch out for that Caldera/SCO Group. They've been causing a but of trouble recently. (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109715&highlight=SCO)

[sharth]

and from what I've read, alot of the reason for United Linux dieing/quieting down is because of the whole sco/caldera mess.