[KLUG Members] UnitedLinux & Review of 3 Penguins

[Adam Williams]

>>Linux vendors Caldera International Inc., Conectiva S.A., SuSE
>>Linux AG and Turbolinux Inc. today announced that they will
>>standardize on a single Linux distribution for the enterprise,
>>to be known as UnitedLinux, in a move they say will streamline
>>Linux development and certification.  
>>http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=27540,00.asp
>Yes, and years ago IBM, Sun, HP, SCO, & UniSys all pledged to created a
>unified UNIX to counter the M$ onslaught.  Still waiting.........

Oh, wait!  AIX has release version 5L whose claim to fame is Linux 
compatibility,  Linux has iBCS to run SCO binaries,  Sun has pledge to 
make Slowaris more Linux-like, as has HP (as they want GNOME on their 
workstations).  So I guess a UNIX standard sort of has happened,  but not 
one for which the big UNIX players can take much credit.

And it is amusing to read how IBM has made AIX (expensive and "high end") 
more Linux compatible.  Just strikes one as "standing on ones head".