Dear Visitor,

The Linux Tape Device Certification Program began in April of 1999 as a group of Linux tape device users that tested and certified tape devices for use on the Linux operating system. Over the past 10 years, this program tested, evaluated, and certified tape devices for use on Linux systems.

Ten years later, we regret to inform the Linux tape community that instead of celebrating our 10-year anniversary as the tape device testing group for Linux, we are closing down. We must stress that this is not due to financial reasons nor has TOLIS Group cut resources for our program. We are simply closing down due to lack of testing requirements for the Linux OS due to advancements in the tape device support. Just about every device tested in the past four years has fully passed our independent testing standards.

Other reasons include the discontinuation of many tape formats by manufacturers since now all but LTO and DAT/DDS have had their roadmap's removed. The list of formats that have had their roadmap's removed in the past 12 months include AIT, SLR, SAIT, DLT, SDLT, QIC, Travan, and VXA. These formats have also officially been place on the End-of-Life shelf and no further development is going to occur, thus, no future testing requirements on our part.

Thank you to all of those who sent us information and details; to the users that frequented our site; and to the people that, above all, gained valuable information from our work. It's been our pleasure to serve the Linux Community.

Kind regards,

LinuxTapeCert.org Team