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'''Caldera OpenLinux''' ('''COL''') is a defunct [[Linux distribution]] produced by [[Caldera, Inc.|Caldera]] and originally sold in 1996. Based on the German [[LST Power Linux]] distribution, and a successor to the Caldera Network Desktop put together by Caldera since 1995, OpenLinux was an early "business-oriented distribution".
== Description ==
OpenLinux was based on [[LST Power Linux]], a [[Slackware]]-derived distribution that had been maintained by Linux Support Team since 1993<ref name="LST_2003">{{cite web |title=Historie |language=de |date=2018 |orig-year=2001 |publisher=LST - Verein zur Förderung freier Software e.V. |url=http://www.lst.de/de/main.php?id=02 |access-date=2018-08-04 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804152549/http://www.lst.de/de/main.php?id=02 |archive-date=2018-08-04}}</ref> and the first to come with a Linux 2.0 kernel.<ref name="LST_1997">{{cite news |title=LST Software GmbH Merges With Caldera Inc. - Critically acclaimed European Linux developers strengthen Caldera's Commitment |agency=[[PR Newswire]], Linux Congress |date=1997-05-23 |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LST+Software+GmbH+Merges+With+Caldera+Inc.-a019440952 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120913050017/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LST+Software+GmbH+Merges+With+Caldera+Inc.-a019440952 |archive-date=2012-09-13 |access-date=2018-08-06}}</ref>
On 23 July 1996, Caldera purchased [[Novell DOS]] and the remaining [[Digital Research]] assets from Novell in order to bundle a [[DOS]] with their version of Linux, which led to creating the [[OpenDOS]] distribution to help port DOS applications.<ref name="Caldera_1996_Suit">{{cite web |title=Software Developer Caldera sues Microsoft for Antitrust practices alleges monopolistic acts shut its DR DOS operating system out of market |publisher=Caldera News |date=1996-07-24 |___location=Salt Lake City, UT, USA |url=http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Info/fullstory/ca_sues_ms.html |access-date=2017-06-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170624232924/http://www.maxframe.com/DR/Info/fullstory/ca_sues_ms.html |archive-date=24 June 2017 }}</ref>
Caldera Systems offered three versions of OpenLinux:
* ''OpenLinux Lite'' was a freely downloadable version.
