CAos Linux
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- The correct title of this article is cAos Linux. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
cAos Linux is a community maintained and managed, RPM based distribution of Linux. It combines aspects of Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, and FreeBSD in a manner that ends up with a solution that is stable enough for servers and clusters, utilizes a long term life cycle (3-5 years), and built from current cutting edge packages (as of August 2005). It also includes many of the features that are considered standard for desktops and laptops, which makes it a very good general purpose Linux distribution.
The cAos Project is part of a larger organization (The cAos Foundation) which is a team of open source developers working and leveraging resources together. The Foundation allows us greater flexibility and reliability with all of the hosted projects by providing funding, support, administration, and management/decision making assistance.
[edit] What is different about cAos Linux
All management decisions, package inclusions, end of life, updates are open, and can be influenced by the developers and users of the project. The distribution itself is considered to be a light weight but fully functional system, capable of being finely tuned and built to solve a particular niche, or use one of its preconfigured roles (ie. Desktop or Server for example).
Careful attention to package dependencies and minimal chroot build methods enable cAos to be lightweight, fast and free of high maintenance dependency trees. The entire distribution is in a public read only CVS and becoming a committer is rather trivial (pending the right trusts). Not only is cAos a great general purpose Linux distribution, but it also is very open to package maintainers and developers.
