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cAos Linux

CAos Linux with GNOME
Website:	cAos Linux homepage
Company/ developer:	cAos Foundation
OS family:	Linux
Source model:	Open source
Latest stable release:	2 /
Latest unstable release:	3 Beta 3 / January 18, 2006
Available language(s):	English
Update method:	Yum
Package manager:	RPM Package Manager
Kernel type:	Monolithic kernel, Linux
License:	Various
Working state:	Abandoned

cAos Linux is a community maintained and managed, RPM based Linux distribution. 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). As of 2007-07-22, development seems to have slowed down, since the latest news on the main web page of the project is dated 2006-01-18 and since the newest file date is 2007-02-22, on mirror http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/caosity/caos-3/packages/i386/?C=M;O=D. 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. Image File history File links Nuvola_apps_important. ... Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... 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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.

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). cAos is open to package maintainers and developers.

External link

• cAos Linux homepage