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|screenshot = [[Image:CAos Linux Gnome.png|300px]]
|caption = CAOS Linux with [[GNOME]]
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|website = [http://www.caoslinux.org/ www.caoslinux.org]
|developer = CAOS Foundation
|family = [[Unix-like]]
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|license = Various
|working_state = ActiveDiscontinued
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|updatemodel = [[Yellow dog Updater, Modified|Yum]]
|package_manager = [[RPM Package Manager]]
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'''CAOS Linux''' iswas an [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]]-based [[Linux distribution]]. It aspiresaspired to be community maintained and managed,. Infiscale described its GravityOS as "[including] the small footprint of Caos" <ref>http[https://wwwweb.caoslinuxarchive.org/web/20131006005709/http://infiscale.com/html/products.html FebruaryInfiscale 23,Product 2009page in November 2013]</ref> indicating a certain level of influence from the discontinued distribution. The name is known to have been capitalized in various ways: cAos and CAos were used with earlier releases; CAOS and Caos were used on the web site's main pages.
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 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> However, 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 combinescombined aspects of [[Debian]], [[Red Hat Linux]]/[[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]], and [[FreeBSD]] in a manner that aspiresaspired 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>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121028184359/http://www.caoslinux.org/features.html Feature page of CAOS Linux on the Wayback Machine]</ref> The CAOS Project iswas part of a larger organization (The CAOS Foundation) which iswas a team of open source developers working and using resources together.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}
As of February 2015, the official website is not live any more, the ___domain name having been re-attributed. [[DistroWatch]] has been listing CAOS Linux has discontinued since at least November 2014.
==References==
==External links==
*[http://wwwdistrowatch.caoslinux.orgcom/indextable.htmlphp?distribution=caos Distrowatch page for CAOS Linux homepage]
*[http://www.infiscale.com Infiscale.com, the company that sponsorssponsored and controlscontroed all CAOS, Perceus, and WareWulf Development]
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