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'''CAOS Linux''' is an [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]]-based [[Linux distribution]]. It aspires to be community maintained and managed. The name has been capitalized in various ways<ref>http: cAos and CAos were used with earlier releases//www.caoslinux.org/ CAOSFebruary and23, Caos are used on the web site's main pages.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>. 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.<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}}