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.