cAos-2 Linux Released for ia32 & x86_64

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Announcing the formal release of cAos-2 for ia32 and x86_64!

The cAos Foundation and the cAos Linux development team are proud to announce
the public release of cAos Linux version 2. cAos Linux is a community-managed
and openly-maintained distribution of Linux using the LSB standard RPM Package
Manager. This release identifies the stabilization and validation of the core
operating system as well as stabilization of the extended OS. Members of the
community are invited to try, use and love this new Linux Distribution!

cAos Linux 2 is scheduled to be maintained for the next 3-5 years. During 
that time, it will maintain a stable core OS ABI as well as receive prompt 
security updates. We are very open to receiving donations not only the form of 
money, but also code, testing, development, and package maintainers. If you 
want to join in an uprising open source project, then we encourage you to take 
a look at cAos.

cAos Linux is a general purpose Linux distribution that is lightweight,
scalable and fast. It is suitable for not only cutting edge performance, but 
also older hardware which is incapable of running some of the other Linux 
distribution and operating systems in market. The prerelease has been tested 
in the following scenarios: Enterprise level servers, development, 
professional
workstations, laptops, desktops, and clustering (HPC, HA, web farm, IO, etc.).

Some features of cAos Linux version 2:

   - Linux kernel version 2.6
   - GCC 3.4.3
   - Xorg 6.8.2
   - File systems supported at install: ext2, ext3, xfs, reiser and jfs
   - Window Managers: Gnome, XFCE, Enlightenment
   - RPM 4.4.1 with YUM 2.2.1
   - Services included: apache(1&2), thttpd, vsftpd, proftpd, samba, postfix

Background:

cAos Linux was created out of necessity for a community-managed, RPM based
distribution of Linux. The project existed prior to the merging of Red Hat
Linux and the Fedora Project and continues to exist independently due to our 
vastly different goals. It is the intention of the cAos Linux development team 
to maintain the distribution as a general purpose system with a reasonable 
life expectancy and package version currency. We are also very open to allow 
the general public to join in the development and decision making. For these 
reasons and others, we are the only RPM based, community-maintained and 
managed Linux distribution.

Technical Organization:

The cAos Linux distribution is divided into two parts:  the Core OS
and the Extended OS. The Core OS ("core") is maintained specifically by the
project's Core OS Development Team and provides the base system which is
responsible for not only building itself, but every package in the extended
operating system. The extended OS is maintained by members of the community
which allows us to scale properly horizontally as well as allow experts from
the community to maintain the packages in which they are most familiar.

References:

cAos Linux:             http://caos.caosity.org
The cAos Foundation:    http://www.caosity.org

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