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