10 years ago, on May 11, 2009, Mikhail Zaripov (MikhailZ) announced the first modular build based on the Mandriva repositories, which became the first release . MagOS is a Linux distribution preconfigured for Russian-speaking users, combining a modular architecture (like Slax) with the repositories of the "donor" distribution. The first donor was the Mandriva project, now the Rosa repositories (fresh and red) are used. "Modularity" makes MagOS almost indestructible and well suited for experiments, since you can always roll back to the initial or saved state. And the donor repositories make it universal, since everything that is available in Rosa is available.
MagOS supports loading from Flash and saves the results of work to a directory or file. Because of this, many people consider MagOS a "flash" distribution, but this is not true, since it is not limited to Flash and can be loaded from disks, img, iso, vdi, qcow2, vmdk or over the network. Developed by the MagOS team, it is responsible for this - , the initial RAM disk for booting Linux with layered rootfs (aufs, overlayfs). The letter "U" in the abbreviation means - unified, that is, UIRD is not tied to MagOS in any way and can be used for any similar projects.
MagOS, unlike other modular distributions I know, has an update system, it is rebuilt monthly with new packages from the Rosa repositories and changes made by the MagOS team, after which the kernel and UIRD modules are automatically transferred to users. That is, two builds are released monthly (32 bit - red and 64 bit - fresh). Specially updated for the 10th anniversary ΠΈ the project.
Source: opennet.ru