Caixa Mágica

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Caixa Mágica Software

Type	Stock Corporation
Founded	Portugal
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Key people	Daniel Neves José Guimarães Paulo Trezentos
Industry	Software
Website	www.caixamagica.pt

Caixa Mágica


Website	www.caixamagica.pt
Company/ developer	Caixa Mágica Software
OS family	Linux
Source model	Free and open source software
Latest stable release	12 / February 20, 2008 (2008-02-20); 115 days ago
Available language(s)	Multilingual (35 languages)
Package manager	RPM Package Manager
Supported platforms	i386
Kernel type	Monolithic
Default user interface	KDE
License	Various
Working state	Current

Linux Caixa Mágica (CM) (English: Magic Box) is a Portuguese Linux distribution developed and maintained by Caixa Mágica Software.

This project was created in 2000, by Paulo Trezentos and Daniel Neves at ADETTI, a Portuguese research centre.
In 2004 there was a need to restructure the project because of the growth of the team and new challenges faced, so a spin-off of ADETTI was created, designated by "Caixa Mágica Software". ^[1]

It's one of the most widely used Linux distributions in Portugal.^{[citation needed]} It uses the RPM Package Manager. There are two flavors: Desktop and Server. The current version is 12 and is based on Mandriva Linux.