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{{Notability|Products|date=April 2009}}

{{Infobox OS

| name = CAOS Linux

| logo = [[Image:CAos Linux logo.png]]

| screenshot = [[Image:CAos Linux Gnome.png|300px]]

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'''CAOS Linux''' was an [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]]-based [[Linux distribution]]. It aspired to be community maintained and managed. Infiscale described its GravityOS as "[including] the small footprint of Caos" <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131006005709/http://infiscale.com/html/products.html Infiscale Product page 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 is the direct ancestor of [[CentOS]],<ref>https://readyspace.com.hk/greg-kurtzer-founder-of-the-centos-project/</ref> which became the most popular Linux distribution for Web servers.<ref>https://www.computerworld.com/article/2468596/network-software/the-most-popular-linux-for-web-servers-is----.html</ref>

CAOS Linux combined aspects of [[Debian]], [[Red Hat Linux]]/[[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]], and [[FreeBSD]] in a manner that aspired 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 was part of a larger organization (The CAOS Foundation) which was a team of open source developers working and using resources together.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}