What is Cardano OS?

Cardano OS is a Linux based operating system that aims to integrate The Financial and Social Operating System of The World (Cardano) with openSUSE Linux-based computer operating system. In this mutually beneficial partnership both Cardano and openSUSE communities will benefit thru leveraging synergetic aliances.

About Cardano Blockchain

Cardano is a power efficient 3rd generation blockchain built from first principles by worlds leading scientists and engineers; it's ecosystem was bootstraped by three entities:

Cardano Foundation
Input Output Global (formely Input Output HK)
Emurgo

What makes Cardano Blockchain stand out

Cardano has been designed from first principles applying lessons learned primarily from Bitcoin and Ethereum. Few things that stand out would be:

Energy efficient and provably secure Proof of Stake consensus
The Extended UTXO Model
The Plutus Platform Smart Contracts — Based on Haskell which has a long history of usage in high-assurance applications, Plutus enables smart-contract developers write more secure smart contracts by reuse of already available tooling and ecosystem of companies.
Governance
- Project Catalyst
- Decentralized Consortium Fund

About openSUSE

The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world's best Linux distributions, as well as a variety of tools, such as OBS, OpenQA, Kiwi, YaST, OSEM, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.

What are other streams?

Open Source Hardware

Cardano Home Router

Czech company called CZ.NIC, the maintainer of the .cz top-level domain name develops open-source series of routers called Turris, currently these devices run custom version of OpenWrt called TurrisOS which is too light-weight.

However during 2022 a new version of their flag ship product, Turris Omnia should be released with sufficient horse power become the ultimate home-appliance for Cardano community members if the operating system is replaced with custom version of openSUSE MicroOS so that the OS can be automatically upgraded.