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Nova (operating system)

Nova is a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution launched in February 2009. It was developed in Havana at the University of Information Science (UCI) by students and professors to provide free and open-source software (FOSS) to inexperienced users and Cuban institutions. The first version was based on Gentoo Linux, but starting with version 2.1, the developers switched to Ubuntu. In May 2016, discussions about a new version 6.0 were underway. However, by 2016, Distrowatch had marked Nova as discontinued, and its website, www.nova.cu had been taken down. Nova re-entered development later, and version 8.0 was released in January-March 2022. In early 2018, its repositories and download server (repo.nova.cu) was shut down temporarily, with users being told to switch to CentOS, after which Nova resumed development a couple months later. By early 2019, the distribution website was again active and DistroWatch listed it as under active development. As of February 2026, the distribution's website seems to be abandoned, with web browsers displaying an alert to visitors about an expired TLS certificate from August 2024.

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Nova is a Cuban state-sponsored Linux distribution launched in February 2009. It was developed in Havana at the University of Information Science (UCI) by students and professors to provide free and open-source software (FOSS) to inexperienced users and Cuban institutions. The first version was based on Gentoo Linux, but starting with version 2.1, the developers switched to Ubuntu. In May 2016, discussions about a new version 6.0 were underway. However, by 2016, Distrowatch had marked Nova as discontinued, and its website, www.nova.cu had been taken down. Nova re-entered development later, and version 8.0 was released in January-March 2022. In early 2018, its repositories and download server (repo.nova.cu) was shut down temporarily, with users being told to switch to CentOS, after which Nova resumed development a couple months later. By early 2019, the distribution website was again active and DistroWatch listed it as under active development. As of February 2026, the distribution's website seems to be abandoned, with web browsers displaying an alert to visitors about an expired TLS certificate from August 2024.

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  1. release date: 2022 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the release date is "2022". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375114176

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.