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Adding local short description: "Canceled Linux distribution for businesses", overriding Wikidata description "Linux distribution"

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{{Short description|Canceled Linux distribution for businesses}}
'''UserLinux''' was a project to create an [[operating system]] based on [[Debian]], and targeted at business customers. The goal was to provide businesses with a freely available, high quality operating system accompanied by certifications, service, and support options.

The project was initiated by [[Bruce Perens]] in late 2003. Subsequent to 2005 and the major success of [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]], a commercial Linux distribution based on Debian by [[Canonical Ltd.]] with much the same aims as UserLinux, the project lost steam. No software was shipped, and the project was ultimately abandoned.

== References ==
* [https://lwn.net/Articles/150701/ ''Whither UserLinux?''] (Linux Weekly News)
* [https://lwn.net/Articles/151642/ ''UserLinux: Autopsy''] (Linux Weekly News)

== External links ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070530014003/http://www.userlinux.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl userlinux.com] (last archived version in the Webarchive, 2007)
* {{DistroWatch|userlinux|NAME=UserLinux}}

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