CAOS Linux with GNOME |
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Company / developer | CAOS Foundation |
OS family | Unix-like |
Working state | Active |
Source model | Open source |
Latest stable release | NSA 1.0.25 / October 14, 2009 |
Available language(s) | English |
Update method | Yum |
Package manager | RPM Package Manager |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux) |
License | Various |
Official website | www.caoslinux.org |
CAOS Linux is an RPM-based Linux distribution. It aspires to be community maintained and managed[1], but as of 2011-05-04, the timestamp of 2009-12-14 on the main ISO-9660 image is well over a year old[2]. Though Infiscale describes its GravityOS as "[including] the small footprint of Caos"[3] indicating a level of influence from the seemingly discontinued distribution. The name has been capitalized in various ways: cAos and CAos were used with earlier releases. CAOS and Caos are used on the web site's main pages.
CAOS Linux combines aspects of Debian, Red Hat Linux/Fedora, and FreeBSD in a manner that aspires to be stable enough for servers and clusters, for a life cycle of 3 to 5 years.[4] The CAOS Project is part of a larger organization (The CAOS Foundation) which is a team of open source developers working and using resources together.
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