CAOS Linux

CAOS Linux

CAOS Linux with GNOME
Developer CAOS Foundation
OS family Unix-like
Working state Discontinued
Source model Open source
Latest release NSA 1.0.25 / October 14, 2009
Available in English
Update method Yum
Package manager RPM Package Manager
Kernel type Monolithic (Linux)
License Various

CAOS Linux was an RPM-based Linux distribution. It aspired to be community maintained and managed. Infiscale described its GravityOS as "[including] the small footprint of Caos" [1] indicating a certain level of influence from the discontinued distribution. The name is known to have been capitalized in various ways: cAos and CAos were used with earlier releases; CAOS and Caos were used on the web site's main pages.

CAOS Linux combined aspects of Debian, Red Hat Linux/Fedora, and FreeBSD in a manner that aspired to be stable enough for servers and clusters, for a life cycle of 3 to 5 years.[2] The CAOS Project was part of a larger organization (The CAOS Foundation) which was a team of open source developers working and using resources together.

As of February 2015, the official website is not live any more, the domain name having been re-attributed. DistroWatch has been listing CAOS Linux as discontinued since at least November 2014.

References

  1. Infiscale Product page in November 2013
  2. Feature page of CAOS Linux on the Wayback Machine
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/11/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.