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{{Notability|Products|date=April 2009}}
{{Infobox OS
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|name = CAOS Linux
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|logo = [[Image:CAos Linux logo.png]]
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|screenshot = [[Image:CAos Linux Gnome.png|300px]]
|caption = CAOS Linux with [[GNOME]]
|website = [http://www.caoslinux.org/ www.caoslinux.org]
|developer = CAOS Foundation
|family = [[Unix-like]]
|source_model = [[Open source]]
|latest_release_version = NSA 1.0.25
|latest_release_date = October 14, 2009
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|language = [[English Language|English]]
|kernel_type = [[Monolithic kernel|Monolithic]] ([[Linux kernel|Linux]])
|ui =
|license = Various
|working_state = Active
|supported_platforms =
|updatemodel = [[Yellow dog Updater, Modified|Yum]]
|package_manager = [[RPM Package Manager]]
}}
'''CAOS Linux''' is an [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]]-based [[Linux distribution]]. It aspires to be community maintained and managed,<ref>http://www.caoslinux.org/ February 23, 2009
Caos Linux NSA-1.0.8 release is now available!</ref> but as of 2011-05-04, the timestamp of 2009-12-14 on the [http://caos.osuosl.org/Caos-NSA-1.0/install/i386/caos-nsa-1.0.i386.iso main ISO-9660 image] is well over a year old.<ref>wget -S - -O /dev/null http://caos.osuosl.org/Caos-NSA-1.0/install/i386/caos-nsa-1.0.i386.iso 2>&1 | grep 'Last-Modified:'</ref> Though Infiscale describes its GravityOS as "[including] the small footprint of Caos"<ref>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ARfubxy6lLkJ:www.infiscale.com/html/products.html+http://www.infiscale.com/html/products.html&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntu</ref> 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 (operating system)|Fedora]], and [[FreeBSD]] in a manner that aspires to be stable enough for [[Server (computing)|server]]s and [[Computer cluster|cluster]]s, for a [[Product lifecycle (marketing)|life cycle]] of 3 to 5 years.<ref>http://www.caoslinux.org/features.html</ref> 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.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.caoslinux.org/index.html CAOS Linux homepage]
*[http://www.infiscale.com Infiscale.com, the company that sponsors and controls all CAOS, Perceus, and WareWulf Development]
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