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[[!meta title="About"]]

ProteanOS is an operating system innovatively designed and built form 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 in April, 2013.

Key Features of ProteanOS
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Freedom
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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.

Flexibility
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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.

ProteanOS ans its programs and libraries can also be configured to serve
virtually any use case.

Size
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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.

Additionally, many of the programs that ProteanOS provides are small yet
fully-functional and designed with the resource constraints of embedded systems
in mind.

Speed
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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.

And ProteanOS starts running in just a few seconds, thanks to its simple and
lightweight boot process.