Granular & Unity at Team Granular Blog

It’s a publicly known fact now that many of the former PCLinuxOS developers have started a new project, independent of PCLinuxOS, with the name Unity Project, with nothing against PCLinuxOS. The news was first publicly announced in the very popular Linux newsletter DistroWatch Weekly, 30th March 2009. Alongside many key former PCLOS developers, the Unity Project comprises of teams of distributions that were previously based on PCLOS, but later decided they would go the Unity way. And of course, there are some other talented technical & non-technical people who have decided to help the project grow.

Unity has begun with the initial aim of providing a robust base for many Linux distributions that were formerly based on PCLinuxOS. But the support for providing a common base for a distro would of course be extended in the future to other distro too. The Unity developers do not intend to make an end-user release of the distro, just a base for member distributions (branches) to use.

After many discussions and meetings among the Team Granular members, it was decided that Granular Project would also join Unity. Granular is intended to represent the KDE branch of Unity. Team Granular developers and packagers also are interested in contributing to the Unity Project in form of packages (RPM), resources, code, etc.

So, that would mean the end of 2 year long direct association of Granular with PCLinuxOS, and a new bond with Unity. Although this decision was a result of a few technical difficulties we were having with PCLinuxOS as the base, PCLOS has always been a great distribution, and all the devs who put all their hard work into it, our hats off to them! Wishing PCLinuxOS good luck, we move forward to a new future of Granular with the hope of giving it’s users (and potential users) the best of Linux world.

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