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UnitedLinux Readies Telecom Package
News The Linux operating system is continuing its spread across industries, with UnitedLinux releasing technology designed for telecommunications carriers. UnitedLinux is a consortium of companies including SuSE, the SCO Group, Turbolinux in Japan and...
[January 16, 2003, 16:16]
UnitedLinux Prepares First Beta
News UnitedLinux, the project uniting the operating system software of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE Linux and Turbolinux, said it will begin beta-testing its new distribution in the next two weeks. The beta-testing programme will roll out in two stages, the...
[August 14, 2002, 13:49]
UnitedLinux Bears Fruit At Comdex
News The UnitedLinux effort will bear its first fruit on Tuesday at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, with SuSE and the SCO Group announcing new products based on the common software underpinnings. SuSE, based in Germany, is providing the operating...
[November 18, 2002, 8:09]
UnitedLinux Won't Tip Red Hat
News UnitedLinux might not be a miracle cure for its members' financial woes, but it's good for Linux, according to analysts, its members and even Red Hat. Turbolinux and Caldera International in the United States, Conectiva in Brazil and SuSE in...
[May 31, 2002, 15:04]
UnitedLinux To Take Software Public
News UnitedLinux said on Wednesday that it would release a preview version of its business-oriented Linux distribution to the public in the last week of September, the first chance most potential customers will have to evaluate the results of the...
[September 11, 2002, 16:16]
UnitedLinux Working On Desktop Distribution
News UnitedLinux, the joint software development effort by four Linux distributors, is working on a version of its software for desktop computers, according to executive Gregory Blepp. SuSE itself already sells a workstation version of its software, but...
[October 15, 2002, 14:07]
UnitedLinux Responds To Licensing Concerns
News Conectiva, one of the four members contributing to the upcoming UnitedLinux operating system distribution, has moved to reassure developers that the consortium is following standard open-source practices, despite the introduction of a "closed...
[September 23, 2002, 16:23]
Oracle, UnitedLinux Deal To Threaten Red Hat's Dominance?
News The database heavyweight announced on Thursday that it would provide technical support to customers who are using open-source software from UnitedLinux, a consortium of second-tier Linux companies. Oracle said it plans to work with UnitedLinux to...
[March 14, 2003, 9:03]
UnitedLinux Inches Closer To OS Goal
News UnitedLinux, the combined effort to create a uniform version of Linux for businesses, on Wednesday named a top executive and said it will ship a test version of its code later this month. The UnitedLinux organisation, which consists of Turbolinux...
[September 19, 2002, 8:34]
UnitedLinux Builds Developers' Toolkit
News UnitedLinux has launched programs to spur developer support amid signs that the open-source operating system is gaining backing from computing industry partners. The consortium of four Linux sellers -- SuSE, SCO Group, Turbolinux and Conectiva...
[January 24, 2003, 13:54]
The Lights Go Out For UnitedLinux
News UnitedLinux, a four-company consortium formed to counterbalance Red Hat's dominance in the Linux market, is all but dead. The legal entity exists, but I shut the lights out," said former UnitedLinux general manager Paula Hunter in an interview on...
[January 23, 2004, 16:00]
How Does UnitedLinux Stack Up Against Red Hat?
News Like most business partners, the organisations that make up the UnitedLinux initiative -- SuSE Linux, Turbolinux, Conectiva, and The SCO Group (formerly Caldera) -- are hoping that their combined efforts will bear more fruit and bring in more...
[January 14, 2003, 14:58]
Kernel Maintainer Backs UnitedLinux
News His comments followed an attack on the UnitedLinux effort earlier this week by MandrakeSoft, which dismissed the venture's claims to benefit the Linux world. UnitedLinux has been widely viewed as a means to combat the dominance of Red Hat in the...
[July 5, 2002, 13:28]
Mandrake Takes UnitedLinux To Task
News In a long statement issued on Tuesday, MandrakeSoft dismissed the claims of UnitedLinux -- which will see a joint server distribution from Caldera International, Conectiva, Turbolinux and SuSE Linux -- that the merger is necessary to keep Linux...
[July 3, 2002, 13:50]
Love Goes To The Heart Of UnitedLinux Effort
News Love now will lead Caldera's UnitedLinux work, a movement to ally Caldera with SuSE, Turbolinux and Conectiva -- three other companies that sell Linux, a clone of the Unix operating system. UnitedLinux is widely viewed as an effort by second-tier...
[June 28, 2002, 11:24]
Red Hat Sees No Threat In UnitedLinux
News Do you consider UnitedLinux's move to try and establish a "standardised" Linux distribution to be a mistake? How are you positioning yourself against UnitedLinux? Were you asked to be part of the UnitedLinux team?
[March 5, 2003, 13:12]
Linux Consortium Takes On Red Hat
News UnitedLinux, a consortium of four second-tier Linux companies working to catch leader Red Hat, released its first version of the open-source operating system on Tuesday. SuSE is the lead developer for the UnitedLinux software, according to Holger...
[November 20, 2002, 7:58]
SuSE: SCO's Anti-Linux Attacks Are 'curious'
News SuSE Linux has said it plans to continue honouring its commitments to Linux group UnitedLinux, despite allegations by SCO Group -- also a UnitedLinux founding member -- that Linux contains unauthorised intellectual property.
[May 15, 2003, 13:46]
News Schmooze: Linux Unites, Partly
News In the meantime, Caldera's Ransom Love insists that all the hype about UnitedLinux versus Red Hat is the wrong way to think about things -- Red Hat, MandrakeSoft et al are all buddies. If they do a good job, software makers could start paying...
[May 31, 2002, 12:37]
Caldera Name Change Puts Unix First
News The company also distributes Linux and is a member of the UnitedLinux effort to promote a uniform version of the operating system for corporations. The UnitedLinux effort launched by several second-tier Linux companies is widely seen as an attempt...
[August 27, 2002, 8:37]
