At the heart of Unity Linux is RPM5 and the
Smart Package
Manager.
We take this and combine it with the LiveCD project which allows developers to quickly “remaster” derivative distributions. Unity Linux is based on Mandriva and thus benefits from its package pool and large developer network.
You may find Unity Linux to be a good base for your distribution. Why not give it a try?
We take this and combine it with the LiveCD project which allows developers to quickly “remaster” derivative distributions. Unity Linux is based on Mandriva and thus benefits from its package pool and large developer network.
You may find Unity Linux to be a good base for your distribution. Why not give it a try?

Featuring
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RPM 5 - RPM 5 provides a larger set of features over RPM 4. Unity Linux has close ties with RPM 5 through upstream contributions. We like the cross-platform cross-vendor approach that RPM 5 employs and the fact that no company controls the future direction of our package manager and features we want get put into play. This will allow us to concentrate on what matters...development...instead of worrying about upstream direction changes.
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LiveCD - Using the 'mklivecd' command, developers can create their own ISO for release. Using the 'mkremaster' command, developers can take a snapshot of their system in it's current state in an ISO format. Both mklivecd and remasterme are integral parts of the LiveCD project which is now developed by the Unity Linux team.
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xz compression - Unity utilizes xz compression which saves space over gz and bz2 compression. It's almost as fast as gz when decompressing as well so we save a lot of space and don't sacrifice on performance. Add the fact that xz has data integrity checking without sacrificing performance and you can see why Unity developers chose to use it.