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United Linux Specs as well as Coordination Blueprints

On top of this the United Linux participants were to include supplementary media which would of provided easy opportunities which would allow easy configuration and even branding of the distributions look feel install applications and value added services.  The obvious point in this was – apart from the branding is that each of partners could produce task or region or regions specific offerings that still adhered to the United Linux overall specifications and specs .

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Common U.I. United Linux Development History

The first part of the plan was for the four partners to pool their development resources to create the U.I. ( United Linux) core. This was a single CD containing the basics of the operating system drivers and at that time a state of the art linux installation program. The whole distro was meant to be an enterprise grade solution , which as a start was based around SUSE’s enterprise Linux Server product of the time. The core application itself was based on work already completed by the Linux Standard Base of that time and was to be compliant of the then current standards for things like web services. authentication and file system hierarchy , it was intended in the first instance on x86-32 , IA64 , and X86-64 platforms and was aimed predominantly at business users and useage

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Colloborative Linux Distro

These individual distros and their partners hoped that other distros of Linux would be marked under their respective brands, but would be powered by a consistent United Linux which mean that the user could be confident that the user would be published with a United Linux and thus a measure of consistency and user functionally would easily exist across a customer and user base – for the first time in the Linux unix user base and communities.

Thus the UI ( United Linux) brand would thus of reduced the amount of mainstream Linux distros to the well managed group of five (5) – that at the time being Red Hat, Mandrake , United ,Debian and Slackware. The bets were on that time that in the enterprise sector tht Re Hat and United Linux would come to dominate. Well at the time those were the predictions of the Linux market share dominant distros.

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Linux History – June 2002 – 4 Major Vendors Join Forces

In June 2002 four of the largest Linux distribution vendors joined forces to break down what they had identified as the main barriers to the widespread adoption of Linux in an enterprise- Caldera , SuSE, Conectiva and TurboLinux announced that they would collaborate on a common Linux fore to create the next generation of a Linux Distribution ( distro) to make deploying and supporting software easier and resolve the common problem of binary incompatibility between Linux distributions.

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History of the Open Source Linux Computer Operating System

Some called it a bold move securing the future of the operating systems of computers at the time , from the evil empires. Some saw it as a way to gain their fellowships , other saw it as the cost saving way of being able to finish their studies on a limited budget , yet others saw Linux as a means of both being able to publish their doctoral thesis, ( in a less competitive arena) , and being able to defend their dissertation and thesis against a topic area that few of their professors and detractors were familiar with.

The interesting point is that now in the year of 2007 many of these former students are now in positions of importance and control in both many of the university computer programs and as well in important positions of responsibility and authority in I.T. departments of many leading and upcoming companies and institutions that often sets the computer and technology usage trends.

These now pioneers and adopters of the Linux Open Source computer operating system both are familiar and knowledgeable of the Linux O.S. . They both know the capabilities of Linux , how to modify for their computer needs and the situations and know the inherent advantages of Linux and the Open Source concepts.

Indeed given a choice they are more familiar with Linux than the mainstay Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Vista products.. Given their choices and druthers . Linux is both easier and preferable for them to work with for their client base.

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