About Unity
About Unity Linux
Unity Linux, in itself, is not a full distribution. What our group provides is set of “core packages” (i.e. kernel, firmware, toolkits, Desktop Environments, etc) and the tools which make it very easy to remaster the core into a distribution of your liking targeting specific functionality (i.e. educational software, graphics editing, etc) or localizations (i.e. translations into other languages). These remasters are driven by our community groups and it is our job as Unity Linux developers to make the job of remastering as easy as possible. Our group is also responsible for ensuring interoperability between the various core packages to provide a reliable paltform for the remasters. In other words, we do the “dirty” work to make the remaster process as easy and transparent as possible.
Here are some useful facts about Unity Linux…
- Derived from Mandriva.
- Size: Unity itself will have no end-user releases (see above). Our development community is in the 3 dozen range and still growing
- Languages: Translation Project will be community based and hasn’t formed yet
- GUI: Unity itself will have no end-user releases, but our remasters have many popular DEs (see below)
- Programs: Growing too fast to be putting out a list – see our WebSVN.
- Package Management: Smart + RPM5
- LiveCD: at this point, all distributions based on Unity will be LiveCDs
- Manuals, Docs: see our documentation wiki
- Mirrors: We have numerous mirrors around the world – see our complete list of mirrors
- Main Purpose: Provide a common base for other distributions
Here is a sample list of remastered distributions based on the Unity Linux Core
- Granular Linux
- Synergy Linux
- Producer Edition Linux
- TinyMe Linux
- TinyFlux Linux
- Unity e17 (formerly PCe17OS)
- Numerous localization projects
