[cAos-announce] Announcing the prerelease of cAos-2 for ia32!

[Greg M. Kurtzer]

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/