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The Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC) is a non-profit organization which aims at enhancing and promoting the use of the Linux operating system on the desktop.

Founded on February 4, 2003, it is led by open source activist Bruce Perens as executive director and Jeremy White , CEO of CodeWeavers, as chairperson.

1 Members

(as of November 13, 2003)

Ark Linux
CodeWeavers
Debian
DesktopLinux.com
KDE
Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
Lycoris
The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
MandrakeSoftMandrakeSoft is a French software company, and creator of Mandrakelinux. Describing itself as a "project initiator and a skills organizer in the Open Source arena", MandrakeSoft is also founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium. MandrakeSoft was cre
NeTraverse
OpenOffice.orgOpenOffice. org OOo (the ". org" inclusion is due to a trademark dispute) is an office applications suite. It is intended to be compatible, and directly compete, with Microsoft Office. OOo is free software under the LGPL or SISSL and is available for Micr
Questnet (Support4Linux.com)
Samba.orgSamba is a free software implementation of Microsoft's networking system. As of version 3, samba not only provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients but can also provide domain services, either as a Primary Domain Controller (P
TheKompany
SuSE
TransGaming Technologies
TrustCommerce
XandrosXandros is a Linux distribution company, creator of the Xandros Desktop Linux distribution. Founded in 2001, the company is located in New York City and Ottawa, Ontario. The distribution is based on Corel Linux, which was acquired from Corel Corporation i
XimianXimian was a company that provided open source desktop applications for Linux and UNIX. Ximian (originally called Helix Code was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman in October 1999, and was bought by Novell on August 4 2003. Novell intends to cont

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DLC Homepage

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