“The four distributors Caldera, Conectiva, Suse Linux, and Turbolinux are planning to introduce UnitedLinux, a joint server operating system for enterprise deployment, in November of this year, the companies said late Friday. The technical specifications of the OS have already been finalized.” Read the interesting report on what will be included on the UnitedLinux distribution over at ExtremeTech.
UnitedLinux Due In November
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UnitedLinux will support three file systems with journaling functionality: Ext3, ReiserFS, and IBM’s 64-bit file system JFS.
Hmmm, I wonder why they won’t (initially?) support XFS.
The SuSE system assistant YaST2 (Yet another Setup Tool) will be used as installation and administration tool.
That’s great! Maybe they’ll also inject YaST2 with any good features from Caldera’s Lizard.
I wonder if this thing will be freely available for download.
XFS is not yet part of the standard kernel. It still has bugs, like corruption in some cases if you have more than 1 GB of RAM (and servers do, UnitedLinux is a server distro). Also, XFS cannot boot a Linux. I like XFS, I believe it is the most feature-complete fs for Linux today, but it is not exactly ready.
I wonder how much bloat this one will have…
is actually an edited version of the UnitedLinux.com press release. The original press release can be found here:
http://www.unitedlinux.com/en/press/press_releases/unitedlinux_inve…
I wonder if this thing will be freely available for download.
You could get Conectiva’s version which most likely be free.
I wonder how much bloat this one will have…
What are you referring to? Applications shipped with the distro?
twelve tools to do the same task for every single task. that’s bloat. nothing wrong with the option. but so many tools can be be a hassle to keep track of with dependencies, and crap. but since this not aimed at typically ignorant home users they probably won’t need to include a ton of documentation on what each thing does.
still nice to see some standards, even if they try to sneak this without releasing ISOs.
I’ve installed Mandrake with XFS filesystems many times. I’ve also booted from those XFS filesystems. No, I don’t use a boot partition, or anything like that. I use GRUB. By now, Grub should have replaced Lilo as thoroughly as GNU Libc (2/6) replaced Linux Libc (5); the only reason it hasn’t is because of inertia, from Debian and RedHat (as Mandrake and Gentoo both use GRUB).
However, I don’t see why anyone would want to use XFS. Reiser strikes me as being the more Be-like filesystem; it’s trees mean that it would be quite simple to insert database functionality at a later stage in development, unlike block-based FSes like ext3 and XFS.
RedHat uses GRUB by default ( you can still use Lilo if you want) it’s obvious you haven’t tried RedHat lately and Debian and i’d imagine Slackware still use Lilo b/c they’re very conservative distros
It still has bugs, like corruption in some cases if you have more than 1 GB of RAM
No it doesn’t.
XFS cannot boot a Linux
Huh? Both Lilo and GRUB can boot Linux on XFS.