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| developer =              Impi Linux (Pty) Ltd
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Following the POC at SITA, Impi Linux officially became a company, Impi Linux (PTY) Ltd, in February 2005. This was at SITA's request. SITA were unable to procure from a project, so a company had to be formed. Nick Venter and Howard Lowenthal assisted Andre Coetzee and Gary Fortuin to structure the new company.

In February 2005, the fledgling company set up shop in [[Rosebank, Gauteng|Rosebank]], [[Johannesburg]], at which point Ross Addis joined Impi Linux full
  -time (although on the Cubit Accounting payroll). 

In May 2005 Impi Linux exhibited at the first South African [[LinuxWorld Conference and Expo|LinuxWorld]] in [[Johannesburg]] with a sponsorship from Arivia.kom, a South African IT para-statal company.

(contracted; show full)uselo Investments (Pty)Ltd (10%). Khuselo Investments jointly represented by Pumla Radebe, Johannesburg City Parks Chairperson and Eddie Funde, current chairman of the SABC. In addition, 20% of the shares in the new entity have been earmarked for BEE, in the form of a trust that will disburse shares to previously disadvantaged employees over time. Other minor shareholders (5%) include, Andre Coetzee, Nick Venter, Howard Lowenthal and Gary Fortuin.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}}

==Release history==

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===Impi Linux 1===
Version 1 (released 1 November 2003) Andre Coetzee decided to base it on [[Gnoppix]], the installation script used dialog and was written in [[PHP]] by Francis Viviers who was employed full  -time by Andre Coetzee to work on Impi Linux.

The initial distro utilized the [[GNOME]] desktop environment and contained new utilities mainly written by Quintin Beukes (a shareholder in Cubit Accounting) who was also employed by Andre Coetzee at the time..

===Impi Linux 2===
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