DCC Alliance
The DCC Alliance ( D CC C ommon C ore) was a federation of several organizations and individuals with the aim of a common standard for debian-based Linux distributions to create. This should accelerate and force the commercial recognition of Debian systems worldwide. Members of the DCC Alliance, which was founded in July 2005 and was active until 2007, included almost all major Debian-based projects at the time such as Knoppix , Linspire , Progeny, SimplyMEPIS , Xandros , User Linux , gnuLinEx , Sun Wah Linux and credativ .
From Linux Core Consortium to DCC Common Core
After the failure of United Linux , Mandrake , Conectiva , Turbolinux and Progeny Linux Systems joined forces on November 16, 2004 to form the Linux Core Consortium (LCC) with the intention of increasing support for the Linux Standard Base (LSB 2.01). The consortium invited Red Hat / Fedora , Novell / SUSE , Hewlett-Packard , Computer Associates, and Sun Microsystems to join, but none of the named companies offered their support.
So again it was just the intention. Because Mandriva and Turbolinux also disagreed, the LCC broke again. In July 2005, Progeny, as the driving force behind the old Linux Core Consortium, looked around for other partners. Progeny succeeded in rallying most of the important Debian-based projects and transforming the LCC into the DCC.
The original name “Debian Core Consortium” was chosen based on the “Linux Core Consortium”. But to avoid confusion with the Debian project, it was renamed to DCC Common Core .
criticism
- The Debian project, which is the fundamental technical basis of all Debian offshoots , is not a member of the alliance. This lacks the most important, most competent and most active actor in the Debian environment. Furthermore, other projects based on Debian, such as the widely used Ubuntu, are missing .
- So far only the Linux Standard Base has succeeded in uniting several distributors. Neither United Linux nor LCC have been successful so far.
Web links
- DCC Alliance ( Memento of July 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DCC Alliance Member List. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on June 22, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Linux Core Consortium. LWN.net, November 23, 2004, accessed June 22, 2017 .
- ^ Debian Alliance on The Horizon - InternetNews. August 4, 2005, accessed June 22, 2017 .
