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{{Notability|Products|date=April 2009}}
{{Infobox OS
| logo = [[Image:CAos Linux logo.png]]
| screenshot = [[Image:CAos Linux Gnome.png|300px]]
| caption = CAOS Linux with [[GNOME]]
| developer = CAOS Foundation
| family = [[Linux]] ([[Unix-like]])
| source_model = [[Open-source software|Open source]]
| latest_release_version = NSA 1.0.25
| latest_release_date = October 14, 2009
| latest_test_version =
| latest_test_date =
| marketing_target =
| language = [[English Language|English]]
| kernel_type = [[Monolithic kernel|Monolithic]] ([[Linux kernel|Linux]])
| ui =
| license = Various
| website = https://web.archive.org/web/20120619030936/http://www.caoslinux.org/
| working_state = Discontinued
| supported_platforms =
| updatemodel = [[Yellow dog Updater, Modified|Yum]]
| package_manager = [[RPM Package Manager]]
}}
'''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}}
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 as discontinued since at least November 2014.
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=caos Distrowatch page for CAOS Linux]
*[http://www.infiscale.com Infiscale, the company that sponsored and controlled all CAOS, Perceus, and WareWulf development]
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[[Category:RPM-based Linux distributions]]
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