From greg@runlevelzero.net Tue Dec 21 20:00:39 2004 From: greg@runlevelzero.net (Greg M. Kurtzer) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:00:39 -0800 Subject: [cAos-announce] Announcing the prerelease of cAos-2 for ia32! Message-ID: <20041221200039.GA9966@titan.runlevelzero.net> The cAos Foundation and the cAos Linux Development Team are proud to announce the prerelease of cAos Linux Core 2.0 for the IA-32 platform. cAos Linux is a community-managed and openly-maintained distribution of Linux using the LSB-standard RPM Package Manager. This release identifies the stabilization of the ABI in, and a feature freeze of, the core OS. Members of the community are invited to install and test this new distribution core. The cAos Linux distribution is divided into two parts: the Core OS and the Extended OS. The Core OS ("core") is maintained by the project's Core OS Development Team and provides the base system under which both the core itself and the Extended OS ("ext") are built. All distribution packages are required to build under core using only specifically-requested build dependencies. Packages in the Extended OS ("ext") can be maintained by community volunteers and project developers outside the core team; this offers the community a free and open development infrastructure into which they can contribute packages while simultaneously providing a stable core platform with a 3-5 year maintenance lifespan. Version 2 of the cAos IA-32 Core will remain in pre-release status for a trial period of no less than 3 weeks and until all identified critical bugs have been resolved. At that time, the IA-32 core will be released as stable. The x86_64 Core OS will follow shortly thereafter. We are currently in need of documentators and other extended package maintainers. If you are interested, please join and send email to the caos-devel email list, or join us at irc.freenode.net, #caos. More information can be found at http://caos.caosity.org/ Have fun. -- Greg M. Kurtzer http://runlevelzero.net/ http://caosity.org/ http://warewulf-cluster.org/