Ten years ago, on May 11, 2009, Mikhail Zaripov (MikhailZ) announced the first modular build based on Mandriva repositories, which became its first release. . MagOS is a preconfigured Linux distribution for Russian-speaking users that combines a modular architecture (like Slax) with repositories from a 'donor' distribution. The first donor was the Mandriva project; currently, Rosa (fresh and red) repositories are used. The 'modularity' makes MagOS virtually indestructible and well-suited for experimentation, as you can always revert to the initial or saved state. The donor repositories make it versatile, as everything available in Rosa is accessible.
MagOS supports booting from Flash and saves results to a directory or file. Because of this, many consider MagOS a 'flash' distribution, but that's not true since it is not limited to Flash and can boot from disks, img, iso, vdi, qcow2, vmdk, or over the network. This is managed by the team developed — , a starter RAM disk for booting Linux with a 'layered' rootfs (aufs, overlayfs). The letter 'U' in the abbreviation stands for 'unified,' meaning that UIRD is not tied to MagOS and can be used for any similar projects.
Unlike other well-known modular distributions, MagOS has an update system; it is rebuilt every month with new packages from Rosa repositories and changes made by the MagOS team, after which the core modules and UIRD are automatically delivered to users. So every month, there are two builds released (32-bit — red and 64-bit — fresh). Updated specifically for the 10th anniversary. and the project.
Source: opennet.ru
