CAOS Linux

What is cAos Linux? cAos Linux is a community maintained and managed, RPM based distribution of Linux. It combines aspects of Debian, RH/Fedora, and FBSD 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 today). 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.

Why is cAos Linux so great? There is no hidden agendas in the cAos project. 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 our preconfigured roles (ie. Desktop or Server for example).

How do we do it? We are able to do this by building the distribution as two major sections: the core operating system and the extended. The first is a self hosting development core file system. This core is stable and will remain constant throughout the life of the distribution. It is also maintained by the cAos core developers. Utilizing this core, we are able to build all of the extended packages which are maintained not only by cAos developers, but also external community volunteers.

Please visit the cAos Linux homepage at http://caos.caosity.org or the cAos Foundation at http://www.caosity.org.