Editing United Linux (section)

==Technical overview==
The distribution was based on SUSE Linux and the [[Linux Standard Base]], with the plan being for SUSE to do most of the engineering work and [[SCO Group|SCO]], Turbolinux and Conectiva primarily to market the distribution in their territories and markets.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-11-16 |title=Caldera CEO waves UnitedLinux banner - TechUpdate - ZDNet |url=http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2877578,00.html |access-date=2024-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041116093644/http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2877578,00.html |archive-date=2004-11-16 }}</ref>

It was planned that version 1.0 would take six to eight months to release, be the current version for one year and be supported for another year after the release of 2.0. Minimum technical requirements were:

* [[Linux kernel]] 2.4.18 or higher
* [[GNU C Library]] 2.2.5
* [[Linux Standard Base]] compliant
* OpenI18N (formerly LI18NUX) compliant ([[internationalization and localization]])
* [[GB 18030]] compliant (the standard [[CJK characters|CJK]] [[character encoding]] used in [[China]])
* [[GNU Compiler Collection|GCC]] 3.1
* [[XFree86]] 4.2
* [[KDE]] 3.0