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.

Trezor Hardware Wallet

Open Source Secure Element

Developed by a Czech company Tropic Square, TASSIC is The Transparent Authenticated Secure Storage Integrated Circuit, basically an open source version of the secure element that Ledger is using.

Cardano

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 listed below, however as we enter Basho and Voltaire eras of The 2020 Roadmap which was a little bit delayed, more and more companies are becoming core contributores, here are some notable ones:

Founding Entities

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

Input Output Global Strategic Partners

• dcSpark
• FiveBinaries
• Vacuumlabs
• Well-Typed

Why is it power-efficient?

Cardano uses series of Ouroboros Proof of Stake consensus protocols in an attempt to build a scientifically sound Proof of Stake consensus, hence Cardano Node can run on a low-power device such as Raspberry Pi, or Turris Omnia Cardano eddition as soon as a 64-bit model of Turris Omnia gets released before the end of this year.

Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol

Cardano Blockchain currently runs Ouroboros Praos version of Ouroboros series of Proof of Stake consensus protocols, this version of Ouroboros uses Verifiable Random Function in order to hide the identity of next block-producer, which brings it's own issues, however, Ouroboros Omega is being planned as an upgrade for the Cardano consensus protocol, incorporating ideas from Ouroboros Genesis and Ouroboros Chronos.

Ouroboros Proof of Stake Research Papers

• Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol
• Ouroboros Praos: An adaptively-secure, semi-synchronous proof-of-stake blockchain
• Ouroboros Genesis: Composable Proof-of-Stake Blockchains with Dynamic Availability
• Ouroboros Crypsinous: Privacy-Preserving Proof-of-Stake
• Ouroboros Chronos: Permissionless Clock Synchronization via Proof-of-Stake
• Ouroboros Clepsydra: Ouroboros Praos in the Universally Composable Relative Time Model

Verifiable Random Function

Extended UTXO

High Assurance Smart Contracts

Plutus — universal Functional Smart Contract Language

Marlowe — domain-specific language for Financial Smart Contracts

Scalability

Hydra: Fast Isomorphic State Channels

Side Chains and Interoperability

Cardano Governance

Project Catalyst

Decentralized Consortium Fund

Cardano Summit 2021 Presentations

• Governance of the blockchain revolution: Introducing the DCF
• Overview of the Decentralized Consortium Fund (DCF)

About openSUSE Linux

SUSE the Company

SUSE is a German-based multinational open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for enterprise. It is the developer of SUSE Linux Enterprise and the primary sponsor of the community-supported openSUSE Project, which develops the openSUSE Linux distribution. While the openSUSE Tumbleweed variation is an upstream distribution for both the "Leap" variation and SUSE Linux Enterprise distribution, its branded "Leap" variation is part of a direct upgrade path to the enterprise version, which effectively makes openSUSE Leap a non-commercial version of its enterprise product.

In July 2018, Micro Focus International, SUSE's parent company since 2014, announced its plan to sell the business unit to a subsidiary of EQT Partners in the first quarter of calendar year 2019. This acquisition was completed on 15 March 2019, making SUSE a standalone business. Under new ownership, their legal name is SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH.

Acquisition of Rancher Labs

On 8 July 2020, SUSE announced its definitive agreement to acquire Rancher Labs, which provides a Kubernetes management platform. The acquisition closed on 1 December 2020, at which time Rancher CEO and cofounder Sheng Liang became SUSE's President of Engineering and Innovation.

SUSE Linux Enterprise vs. openSUSE

openSUSE Factory

openSUSE Leap

openSUSE Leap uses source and newly also binaries from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), which gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions, and combines that with community developments to give users, developers and sysadmins the best stable Linux experience available.

Contributor and enterprise efforts for Leap bridge a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in other distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed.

openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE MicroOS

openSUSE MicroOS is a modern Linux operating system based on openSUSE Tumbleweed which also serves as base for openSUSE Kubic, a Container as a Service platform.

Few of the main openSUSE MicroOS characteristics are:

• Small: Lightweight images designed to be deployed for a specific use case
• Scalable: Optimized for large deployments while capable as a single machine OS
• Always up-to-date: Updates are automatically applied without impacting the running system
• Resilient: In case of trouble the system automatically rolls back to last working state
• Fast: Doesn't ship with baggage that slows it down

In other words openSUSE MicroOS is an operating system you don't have to worry about. It's designed for but not limited to container hosts and edge devices. Due to the focus on unattended operation it's especially suited for large deployments. openSUSE MicroOS inherits the openSUSE Tumbleweed and SUSE Linux Enterprise knowledge while redefining the operating system into a small, efficient and reliable distribution.

Major features of openSUSE MicroOS are:

• Read-only root filesystem to avoid accidental modifications of the OS
• The Transactional Updates technology leverages btrfs snapshots to apply package updates without interfering with the running system
• health-checker to verify the OS is operational after updates. Automatically rolls back in case of trouble.
• cloud-init for initial system configuration during first boot on Cloud (includes OpenStack)
• Combustion and Ignition for initial system configuration during first boot on all other images.
• Designed to fit perfectly into existing openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise environments
• Podman Container Runtime available
• Rolling Release: Every new openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshot also automatically produces a new openSUSE MicroOS release. The Leap based version automatically updates when maintenance updates for Leap are published.

To learn more about openSUSE MicroOS system design, please see relevant documentation from the openSUSE project.

openSUSE Kubic

openSUSE Leap uses source and newly also binaries from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), which gives Leap a level of stability unmatched by other Linux distributions, and combines that with community developments to give users, developers and sysadmins the best stable Linux experience available.

Contributor and enterprise efforts for Leap bridge a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in other distribution openSUSE Tumbleweed.

openSUSE Factory

Open Source Hardware

RISC-V ISA & CPUs

RISC-V is a free and open ISA enabling a new era of processor innovation through open standard collaboration. The RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture, paving the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation.

• About RISC-V International — RISC-V International is a global nonprofit association based in Switzerland. Founded in 2015 as the RISC-V Foundation with 29 members, RISC-V is now a truly global organization with 2k+ members in more than 70 countries.
• SiFive — As the pioneers who introduced RISC-V to the world, SiFive is transforming the future of compute and defining what comes next.
  • HiFive Unmatched

Turris Omnia & MOX

Trezor Model T

Tropic Square TASSIC

About Turris

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 TurrisOS derived from openWRT which is too light-weight, however during late 2022 a new version of the flag ship product, Turris Omnia should be released with sufficient horse power become the ultimate home-appliance for Cardano community members.

Combining Turris Omnia 2022 with openSUSE MicroOS will enable Cardano users to have a great Internet gateway that separates their home network from the dangers of the Internet, while also supporting Cardano network and applications running on it. Possible use-cases include:

• Cardano Node Relay
• Distributed Storage

Turris Omnia 2020 HW Specifications

Turris Omnia 2022 HW Specifications

Turris Omnia 2022

Expected to reach market in Q3 of 2022, Turris Omnia 2022 brings major improvements over older Turris Omnia 2020 model See Datasheet.

Turris Omnia 2022 HW Specifications

About Trezor

Trezor Model T

About TASSIC

Developed by a Czech company Tropic Square, TASSIC is The Transparent Authenticated Secure Storage Integrated Circuit, basically an open source version of the secure element that Ledger is using.

TASSIC

The Transparent Authenticated Secure Storage Integrated Circuit, TASSIC in short, is the first custom chip (ASIC) we are working on at Tropic Square.

TASSIC is a minimalistic implementation of fundamental functionality - secure storage and associated cryptography to securely store digital data.

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TASSIC will be available in several form factors, including a form factor that will be easy to plug-in to your Trezor Model T. In addition to that, TASSIC can be added to Turris Omnia 2022, which we can call Cardano edition when it will be powered by openSUSE MicroOS with transactional updates which will replace OpenWRT based Turris OS.

Previous versions of Turris Omnia have already been running openSUSE already, including Turris MOX which is more lego-like version of Turris.

Our Team

Chief Executive Officer

• Mark Stopka

Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer for Hardware

• Maciej Nowosielski

Chief Technology Officer for Software

• Pavel Šimerda

Chief Marketing Officer

• Jan Bystrianský

Chief Operations Officer

• Radovan Čierný

Our Partners

Software & Hardware Development Companies

AIKIT Digital

AIKIT is a full service software studio that creates products and solutions for cutting-edge consumer facing brands. Few selected developers, a team of skilled engineers to execute your ideas, or a complete software solution. We support whatever you need on-site or remote, so you can focus on your business.

SatoshiLabs

Tropic Square

Projects building on Cardano

Liqwid Finance

Liqwid is an open source, algorithmic and non-custodial interest rate protocol built for lenders, borrowers and developers. Users can securely earn interest on deposits and borrow assets with ease while earning yield on ADA from four yield streams.

projectNEWM

projectNEWM) is a decentralized ecosystem where you can listen to your favorite music and also earn money if you choose to partake in the NEWM marketplace. Imagine a fair stock market of music, where artists can sell partial music rights and fans can invest and reap the rewards of the music they love; where everyone benefits and receives tokenized royalties from streams directly to their wallet. That’s what we’re doing, and we are pioneers.

ADOSIA

Other Blockchains and projects building on other Blockchains

Ergo

Storj

Storj DCS is the world’s first open-source, decentralized cloud storage layer that’s private by design and secure by default - enabling developers to build in the best data protection and privacy into their applications as possible. The zero trust architecture, multi-region high availability, default encryption and edge-based access controls minimize risk and give only you, or those you grant permission to, access to your files. The result is that you take back full ownership and control of your data.