What's new in Caos Linux NSA 1.0
Nov 26, 2008
- The Caos team of developers and contributors from Infiscale are proud to announce the public release of Caos Linux NSA version 1. Caos Linux is a community-managed and openly-maintained distribution of Linux focusing on areas where Linux naturally leads and excels: high performance computation (HPC), servers (especially LAMP and general Web), and custom appliances (such as file servers and firewalls).
- This release identifies the stabilization and validation of the core operating system, fully tested on some of the world's fastest public and private systems and architectures.
- While Caos Linux NSA signifies a new focus in Linux distributions, it also represents a return to what got people involved with Linux in the first place. It is built using known standards and good practices of the open source community with the end users' input and needs taken into consideration. Features are never held back or forced in solely for monetary reasons; technical decisions are always made by technical people for technical reasons. Caos is clean, simple, solid, and fast while still maintaining the level of stability and resilience demanded by enterprise and high-performance computing.
- Many distributions no longer focus on the core competencies that always made Linux so proficient, choosing instead to emulate Windows on the desktop and commercial Unix vendors on the server at the same time. In stark contrast to these diametrically opposed goals, the Caos core operating system has been tuned using very large and tightly-coupled HPC cluster systems. Careful tweaking and optimizations have resulted in a very streamlined, lightweight operating system still suitable for a large spectrum of uses, from simple desktops to petaflop supercomputers. Future development also includes a release for embedded systems.