RE: Certifiable Linux

From: Powell, Mark D <mark.powell_at_eds.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:25:57 -0500
Message-ID: <564DE4477544D411AD2C00508BDF0B6A1CE0AA0A@USAHM018.amer.corp.eds.com>

No, it was because Novell purchased SuSe and SuSe subsequently withdrew from the United Linux group.

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of mkb Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 11:21 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Certifiable Linux

Also, I believe UL is dead or in the process of dissolution because of SCO.

Can't remember where I read it (I think eWeek), but the reason was beacuse of SCO. Hope someone can verify this though.

mohammed

• Mladen Gogala <mladen_at_wangtrading.com> wrote:
  > On 02/24/2004 10:50:32 AM, ryan.gaffuri_at_cox.net
  > wrote:
  > > ocm uses united linux 1.0 and its free. Tanel
  > Poder is an OCM, maybe he can tell you how well it
  > works?
  > >
  > >
  >
  http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/index.html?dba9i_ocmenvir.html
  > >
  >
  > Ryan, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but United Linux
  > is not free and the cheapest
  > version, if we discount the ones on the Houston St.
  > in NYC, is around $100.
  > United Linux is a coordinating committee of vendors
  > who say what should the distro
  > look like. That means that everybody agrees where to
  > put include files, where
  > do executables go, what is in the kernel and which
  > package manager to use.
  > United Linux means "SuSE or Connectiva". There is
  > another member of the United Linux
  > consortium which will make the whole effort go
  > south: Santa Cruz Operations, SCO for
  > short. Until they're finished off, they'll likely
  > obstruct the UL effort.
  >
  

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