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Caos Linux
Caos Linux NSA was a light-weight, fast, efficient, stable, and secure distribution of Linux that was appropriate for servers, compute nodes, network appliances, and even the latest desktop and laptop computers. It was maintained and managed by a team of computer science experts with numerous proven skills. With resources pooled together, they created a multifunctional operating system with mission critical dependability. Caos Linux was designed to run on all x86_64 and i386 hardware ranging from clusters and servers to production level appliances to personal desktops and laptops. Supporting a wide variety of software, Caos Linux was based on the best aspects of GNU/Linux and has full binary compatibility with the most popular enterprise distribution of Linux.
Status: Discontinued
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2006-10-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 6 |
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The tinysofa project has released the 6th update to "Ceara", its Trustix-based distribution for servers: "tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 6 (Ceara) is now generally available. This release focuses on bug and security fixes, integrates all released security fixes, and updates various packages (notably the kernel) to the more recent upstream releases. 'Ceara' features: The Linux 2.6.16 kernel, grsecurity support, APT and SmartPM for advanced package management, the next generation PHP 5 environment (5.0.4), OpenSSH 4.3p2, high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.17) and UCARP (1.1), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Python 2.4.2), and much more." Read the release announcement on the distribution's home page. Download (SHA1): Ceara.i586.iso (362MB) or Ceara.x86_64.iso (366MB).
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2006-05-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 5 |
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Jaakko Heinonen has announced the release of a new update to tinysofa classic server 2.0: "tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 5 (Ceara) is now generally available. This release focuses on bug and security fixes, integrates all released security fixes, and updates various packages (notably the kernel) to the more recent upstream releases. 'Ceara' features: the Linux 2.6.16 kernel, grsecurity support, APT and SmartPM for advanced package management, the next generation PHP 5 environment (5.0.4), OpenSSH 4.3p2, high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.17) and UCARP (1.1), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Python 2.4.2), and much more." Visit the distribution's home page to read the release announcement. Download (SHA1): Ceara.i586.iso (361MB) or Ceara.x86_64.iso (364MB).
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2006-03-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 4 |
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An updated version of tinysofa classic server 2.0, code name "Ceara", has been released: "tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 4 (Ceara) is now generally available. This release focuses on bug fixes, integrates all released security fixes, and updates various packages to the more recent upstream releases. 'Ceara' features: the Linux 2.6.13 kernel, grsecurity support, APT and SmartPM for advanced package management, the next generation PHP 5 environment (5.0.4), OpenSSH 4.3, high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.14) and UCARP (1.1), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Python 2.4.2), and much more." Read the full release announcement on the project's home page. Download (SHA1): Ceara.i586.iso (355MB) or Ceara.x86_64.iso (360MB).
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2006-01-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 3 |
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tinysofa classic server, a server-oriented distribution originally forked from Trustix Secure Linux, has received a new update: "tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 3 (Ceara) is now generally available. This release focuses on bug fixes, integrates all released security fixes, and updates various packages to the more recent upstream releases. 'Ceara' features: the Linux 2.6.13 kernel, grsecurity support, APT and SmartPM for advanced package management, the next generation PHP 5 environment (5.0.4), OpenSSH 4.2, high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.14) and UCARP (1.1), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Python 2.4), and much more." The full release announcement can be found on the project's home page. Download (SHA1): Ceara.i586.iso (354MB) or Ceara.x86_64.iso (359MB).
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2005-09-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 2 |
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An updated release of tinysofa classic server, a free server-oriented enterprise distribution originally based on Trustix Secure Linux, is out: "tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 2 (Ceara) is now generally available. This is an update release which incorporates all bug and security fixes released to date, whilst updating most packages to the latest upstream releases. 'Ceara' features: The Linux 2.6.13 kernel, grsecurity support, APT and SmartPM for advanced package management, the PHP 5 environment (5.0.4), OpenSSH 4.2, high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.13) and UCARP (1.1), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Python 2.4), and much more." See the release announcement of the project's home page. Download (SHA1): Ceara.i586.iso (353MB), Ceara.x86_64.iso (359MB).
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2005-06-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 1 |
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Update 1 of tinysofa classic server, a free enterprise-class distribution originally based on Trustix Secure Linux, has been released: "tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 1 (Ceara) is now generally available. This is a major release which brings with it the first x86_64 edition of tinysofa classic server and incorporates all bug and security fixes released to date. 'Ceara' features: The Linux 2.6.11 kernel, grsecurity support, APT for advanced package management, the next generation PHP 5 environment (5.0.3), high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.10) and UCARP (1.1), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Python 2.4), and much more." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement. Download (SHA1): Ceara.i586.iso (351MB) or Ceara.x86_64.iso (356MB).
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2005-04-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 2.0 |
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A new version of tinysofa classic server has been released: "tinysofa classic server 2.0 (Ceara) is now generally available. This is a major release which culminates many months of development and testing, and incorporates the latest in open source technology. 'Ceara' features: the Linux 2.6.11 kernel, grsecurity support, APT for advanced package management, the next generation PHP 5 environment (5.0.3), high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.10) and UCARP (1.1), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Python 2.4), and much more." Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement and to learn more about the new product. Download: Ceara.i586.iso (350MB). The ISO image is also available via BitTorrent.
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2005-02-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa enterprise server 2.0 Update 1 |
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An updated version of tinysofa enterprise server has been released: "tinysofa enterprise server 2.0 Update 1 (Odin) is now generally available. This maintenance release incorporates updates issued since the release of 2.0 and addresses all known security issues. 'Odin' features: the Linux 2.6.9 kernel, SELinux support, APT for advanced package management, full ABI compatibility with RHEL4 (both user space and kernel), a turn key ASP.NET/C# solution using components from the Mono project (1.1.4), the next generation PHP 5 environment (5.0.3), high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.10), UCARP (1.1) and PostgreSQL replication (Slony1 1.0.5), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Ruby 1.8.2, Subversion 1.1.3), and much more." Read the release announcement on the distribution's web site. Download: Odin.i386.iso (687MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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2005-01-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 1.1-U3 |
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The developers of tinysofa classic server have released an updated version of their distribution - version 1.1 Update 3: "tinysofa classic server 1.1 Update 3 (Rio) is now generally available. This maintenance release introduces upstream updates specifically targeting development tools, in addition to the usual fixes and improvements. The Cyrus IMAP server package has undergone a major cleanup and feature enhancement, elinks has replaced the links package, the bridge-utils package has been added to the core distribution, and Postfix now integrates the virtual delivery agent patchset." Read the announcement and changelog for additional information. Download: Rio.i586.iso (354MB). tinysofa classic server is a server-oriented Linux distribution, originally based on Trustix Secure Linux.
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2004-08-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 1.1 |
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tinysofa classic server 1.1 (Rio) is now generally available. "Rio overhauls the tinysofa classic server product line, adding Native POSIX Threads Library support to the kernel and glibc, Exec-Shield support to the kernel, replacing the SWUP updater with APT as the primary advanced package management tool, designating vsftpd as the only FTP server shipped, adding dovecot and tftp to the base package set, implementing 'thought process compatibility' with the tinysofa enterprise server product line and much more." Download: Rio.i586.iso (356MB) and Rio.src.iso (324MB) via BitTorrent. Md5sums can be found on traditional FTP sites.
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2004-08-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa enterprise server 2.0 |
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tinysofa enterprise server 2.0 (Odin) is now generally available. "Odin is a next generation operating system which showcases the latest in open source technology in a fast, stable, securely configured and easily manageable form. Odin features: The Linux 2.6.8 kernel, SELinux support, APT as an advanced package management tool, a turn key ASP.NET solution using components from the Mono project, the next generation PHP 5 environment, high availability features such as DRBD, UCARP and PostgreSQL replication, the latest development tools and languages" including automake 1.9, bash 3.0 and tcl 8.4.7! Download: Odin.i386.iso (691MB) and Odin.src.iso (703MB) via BitTorrent. Md5sums can be found on traditional FTP sites.
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2004-07-23 |
NEW • Development Release: tinysofa enterprise server 2.0-rc1 |
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Soon after the 1.x branch of tinysofa enterprise server's renaming to "classic server", enterprise server 2.0 (Persistence) release candidate 1 is now available: "Major changes include an update to php 5.0.0 and modification of all packages to build under a clean chroot environment using mach. As well as the usual updates to the latest upstream versions, release candidate 1 also adds dmalloc 5.3.0, drbd 0.7.0, firehol 1.191, libevent 0.8.0, openslp 1.1.5, openvpn 1.6.0, sqlite 2.8.14, ucarp 1.0 and valgrind 2.1.2 to round out the full feature set that is envisioned for tinysofa enterprise server 2.0." Download via BitTorrent: binary ISO (683MB) and source ISO (694MB).
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2004-07-12 |
NEW • Development Release: tinysofa enterprise server 2.0-pre3 |
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This is the third technology preview of the upcoming tinysofa enterprise server 2.0: "tinysofa enterprise server 2.0-pre3 (Persistence) technology preview is now available. Major changes include an update to gcc 3.4.1, a new major version of MySQL (4.0.20) and a new minor version of perl (5.8.4). As well as the usual updates to new upstream versions, technology preview 3 also adds freetds, ipvsadm and sysstat to the core, and addresses bug reports and feature suggestions from the tinysofa user community." Read the announcement on the distribution's home page. Download: persistence.i386.iso(692MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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2004-07-06 |
NEW • Development Release: tinysofa enterprise server 2.0-pre2 |
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"tinysofa enterprise server 2.0-pre2 (Persistence) technology preview is now available. The C#/ASP.NET suite has been updated to 1.0. vsftpd is now at 2.0.1 and includes SSL/TLS support. Apache version 2.0.50 brings forth many feature enhancements and bug fixes. The slony1 replication engine for PostgreSQL also features in pre2, with version 1.0.0 being included in the distribution. Additionally, ruby is now included in the distribution." You can see the full announcement for the full scoop. Visit the download page for links to the single ISO image (673 MB).
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2004-06-29 |
NEW • Development Release: tinysofa enterprise server 2.0-pre1 |
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A new technology preview of the upcoming tinysofa enterprise server 2.0 has been released for testing: "tinysofa enterprise server 2.0-pre1 (Persistence) technology preview is now available. The 2.0 branch builds upon the components of Fedora Core with ideas and inspiration from SUSE, Conectiva and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It features APT as an advanced package management tool, secure defaults and services, a turn key ASP.NET server solution, and a whole lot more." Find more details about the release of the distribution's home page. Download: persistence.i386.iso (673MB).
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2004-06-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U2 |
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This is the second update to tinysofa enterprise server 1.0: "tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U2 is now generally available. Update 2 features security updates, bug fixes and application enhancements. This release moves the 1.0 branch of tinysofa enterprise server into a maintenance state; i.e., a security update and bug fix only cycle.". Read the announcement on the distribution's home page. Download: tinysofa-1.0.i586.iso (363MB). tinysofa enterprise server is a server targeted Linux distribution based on Trustix Secure Linux.
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2004-05-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U1 |
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This is from the release announcement of tinysofa enterprise server 1.0 Update 1: "tinysofa enterprise server 1.0-U1 is now generally available. Update 1 adds polish to an already widely acclaimed distribution, and is the product of an amazingly expedient development process that has seen the adoption of the subversion source control management system as its centrepiece. Every package has been updated, and the release includes a great amount of attention to detail." Find the release announcement on the distribution's home page. Download: tinysofa-1.0.i586.iso (362MB); also available via BitTorrent. tinysofa is an enterprise-grade Linux distribution based on Trustix Secure Linux.
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2004-04-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: tinysofa 1.0 |
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The inaugural version of tinysofa enterprise server has been released: "The culmination of more than a month of development and testing, tinysofa enterprise server 1.0 ('Emily') has finally been released. Building on the proven rock solid basis of Trustix Secure Linux, tinysofa enterprise server is the new benchmark in Linux based server operating systems. Major new features include a complete distribution port to python 2.3 and rpm 4.2, an overhauled pam authentication system providing system-wide authentication configuration, the latest upstream packages, the replacement of ncftp with lftp, the addition of gdb and screen, feature additions to the swup updater..." Visit tinysofa.org to learn more about the project. Download: tinysofa-1.0.i586.iso (343MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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