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ProteanOS is an operating system innovatively designed and built from scratch
for a wide range of embedded devices, with inspiration from other successful
operating systems.  Guided by commitments to technical excellence and community
values, ProteanOS is built on industry-standard and enterprise-quality
technology and aims to provide a competitive solution in a wide variety of
applications – from personal electronics and automotive systems to robotics and
digital signage.

ProteanOS seeks to combine the ease of setup found in most desktop and
enterprise operating systems with the flexibility and configurability found in
many other embedded operating systems.

[[ProteanOS_1.0|dev/releases/1]] is expected to be released around summer or
fall 2013.

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	<h1>Key Features of ProteanOS</h1>
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			<h2>Freedom</h2>
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				All of the software in ProteanOS is free/libre and open source –
				it can be used, modified, and distributed without restriction.
				This allows the developers to effectively support the software
				and ensures that vendors and users remain in control of the
				technology they use.
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			<h2>Flexibility</h2>
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				ProteanOS can be made to run on just about any hardware that can
				support an operating system and made to work with a variety of
				UNIX®-like kernels (currently supported is Linux®) and system
				libraries.
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				ProteanOS and its programs and libraries can also be configured
				to serve virtually any use case.
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			<h2>Size</h2>
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				ProteanOS is designed to be as small as possible.  Only
				essential programs and libraries are installed by default.  And
				each software package is stripped down as much as possible.
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				Additionally, many of the programs that ProteanOS provides are
				small yet fully-functional and designed with the resource
				constraints of embedded systems in mind.
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			<h2>Speed</h2>
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				Many of the software packages provided by ProteanOS are built
				with performance optimizations, and ProteanOS as a whole is
				built to take advantage of all the best performance features
				available for the hardware on which it runs.
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				And ProteanOS starts running in just a few seconds, thanks to
				its simple and lightweight boot process.
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