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Sorcerer lives on to this day through the Source Mage distribution.\n\n== Technical Specifications ==\n\n=== ***General Information*** ===\n\n* ***Developer:*** Kyle Sallee\n* ***Licensing:*** GPL (SPL after relaunching)\n* ***OS Family:*** Linux (Unix-like)\n* ***Initial Release Date:*** \n* ***Latest Release Date:*** \n\n=== ***Availability Information*** ===\n\n* ***Languages:*** Multilingual\n* ***Platforms:*** i386, i486, i586, i686, x86_64\n\n=== ***System Information*** ===\n\n* ***Working State:*** Discontinued\n* ***Source Model:*** Open Source\n* ***Update Method:*** Source-Based\n* ***Package manager:*** Sorcery\n* ***Default User Interface:*** \n** AfterStep\n** Blackbox\n** Enlightenment\n** Fluxbox\n** GNOME\n** IceWM\n** KDE\n** WMaker\n** Xfce\n\n== Additional Information ==\n\n* [link|https:\/\/distrowatch.com\/table.php?distribution=sorcerer#:~:text=Sorcerer%20is%20a%20source%2Dbased,that%20the%20system%20administrator%20specifies.|DistroWatch entry on Sorcerer]\n* [link|https:\/\/sourcemage.org\/History|Source Mage Webpage on the History of Sorcerer]","contents_json":{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"heading","attrs":{"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Background Information"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Sorcerer Linux was a source-based distribution launched in 2001 created by Kyle Sallee and was designed to be compiled and optimized for system administrator specifics. 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Sorcerer Linux was a source-based distribution launched in 2001 created by Kyle Sallee and was designed to be compiled and optimized for system administrator specifics. Software updates were implemented through compressed archive files containing the source code of software or applications known as Source Tarballs.<\/p>\n\n

However, in 2002 the project was forked into the Lunar Penguin distribution, due to "several issues" with the development of Sorcerer. Sorcerer lives on to this day through the Source Mage distribution.<\/p>\n\n

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