DCC Alliance

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The DCC Alliance (DCCA), formerly known as the Debian Common Core Alliance, is an association of organizations and individuals whose goal is to assemble a common, standards-based core for Debian-based Linux distributions and accelerate the worldwide commercial adoption of Debian GNU/Linux.

The Alliance's primary goals are to:

  • Assemble a 100 percent Debian common core that addresses the needs of enterprise business users
  • Maintain certification of the common core with the Free Standards Group open specification, the Linux Standard Base
  • Use the Alliance's combined strength to accelerate the commercial adoption of Debian
  • Work with the Debian project to ensure predictable release cycles and features important to commercial adoption

There are two classes of membership in the DCC Alliance:

  • Members, creating products based on the DCC
  • Associate Members from the ISV/IHV/OEM community with a vested interest in supporting the movement

Founding members are credativ, Knoppix, LinEx, Linspire, MEPIS, Progeny, Sun Wah Linux, UserLinux, and Xandros, with membership open to additional organizations with an interest in a strong commercial presence for Debian and Debian-based solutions.

The founding of the DCC Alliance was announced Tuesday, August 9, 2005 at LinuxWorld San Francisco.

The first Linux distribution to be based on the DCC is Xandros Server, which is scheduled for release on May 1, 2006.

MEPIS has since left the DCCA, citing creative differences, and transitioned MEPIS from Debian Unstable to Ubuntu

The DCCA has attracted controversy from within the Debian community, for failing to work within Debian and for use of the trademark Debian. The trademark dispute caused the DCCA to drop the Debian Common Core part of the name and change to just DCC[1].

Ubuntu also declined to join the Alliance, with founder Mark Shuttleworth stating that he did not believe that the DCC had any future.[2]

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