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A minimum set of functionality and the mode of implementation was needed to be shared with all Linux compliant platforms. What the LSB specification which was set for linux distributions was set up to define was a common specification for Linux institutions for all the major Linux distributions and applications. THE LSB had the support of all the major distribution makers.

What the LSB did not do what to define how the semantics of installation and additional functionality should have been delivered and then provide a framework as how additional functionality was to be planned for and delivered . It was to provide a complete customer orientated solution. If Linux was to serve the mainstream business and corporate business client it had to have a solid foundation to be built upon which specifically tailored solutions , for either specific industries , applications or clients could be developed upon.

It had to be solid , substantial and rock solid whatever programs and applications were to devised and developed.

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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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