Linux-distribusjonen MagOS fyller 10 år

For 10 years, on May 11, 2009, Mikhail Zaripov (MikhailZ) announced the first modular assembly based on Mandriva repositories, which became the first release. MagOS. MagOS is a preconfigured Linux distribution for Russian-speaking users, combining a modular architecture (like Slax) with the repositories of a donor distribution. The first donor was the Mandriva project, but now the Rosa repositories (fresh and red) are used. The "modularity" makes MagOS virtually unkillable and well-suited for experiments, as one can always revert to the initial or saved state. The donor repositories make it universal, 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 this is not true, as 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 — UIRD, an initial 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 monthly with new packages from the Rosa repositories and changes made by the MagOS team, after which the kernel modules and UIRD are automatically sent to users. This means that two builds (32-bit — red and 64-bit — fresh) are released every month. Specially for the 10th anniversary, updates have been made. nettsiden og forum project.

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