Aurora-Orion

 Aurora

Web site: auroralinux.org (not active)
Origin: USA
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: GNOME, KDE
Architecture: sparc32
Based on: Fedora
Wikipedia:
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 2.0 | April 14, 2006

Aurora SPARC Linux – a researching & building a Sparc Linux distribution based on Fedora Core. Aurora was originally created after Red Hat dropped support for the SPARC architecture after Red Hat Linux 6.2.

The project status:
– A build 0.1 was released November 5, 2001
– The first “stable” build of Aurora (1.0) was released January 19, 2001
– The second “stable” build of Aurora (2.0) based on Fedora Core 3 was released April 14, 2006
– The Corona Tree (?) was based on Fedora Core 6 

 Orion OS

Orion OS was the first operating system developed by Aurora Systems International back in the 90's as a rival to Microsoft Windows 2.1.

The main advantages to Windows was that Orion OS was much cheaper and worked on slower machines of the time, where Windows couldn't.

Most of the information about Orion OS has been lost to time since the OS wasn't so popular back then to make archives, however some versions have been discovered by people that bought it back then and also people that worked on the OS as well.