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'''CAOS Linux''' is a community maintained and managed, [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]]-based [[Linux distribution]]. The name can be an acronym standing for Community-Assembled Operating System. 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 life cycle|life cycle]] of 3 to 5 years.{{Fact|date=December 2007}}<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 leveraging resources together.

==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]

==References==

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