United Linux

The founding members of United Linux were SUSE, Turbolinux, Conectiva (now merged with MandrakeSoft to form Mandriva) and Caldera International (later renamed to The SCO Group).

There were a number of false starts, but the participants consistently agreed that a unified Linux platform for business made sense.

Starting in March and April 2002, the United Linux board put together a base technical specification, getting input from the four consortium members and their business partners and vendors.

[5] The end of United Linux was announced in a Novell press conference on January 22, 2004 by Richard Seibt, president of the SUSE division.

[6] It emerged that no real work had been done on United Linux since soon after SCO v. IBM had started, and that SUSE had ceased active participation around this time.

While some have reported that UnitedLinux ended, in fact the group did not gain consensus to dissolve the partnership and the legal entity remains in effect.