Xandros

Xandros

Xandros, Inc. was a software company which sold Xandros Desktop, a Linux distribution. The name Xandros was derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros. Xandros was founded in May 2001 by Linux Global Partners (Will Roseman and Dr. Frederick Berenstein). The company is headquartered in New York City. Xandros Desktop was based on Corel Linux, a Debian-based distribution that was acquired along with the development team behind the product from Corel Corporation in August 2001 after Corel decided to sell the Linux distribution market. Xandros was a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium and member of the Interop Vendor Alliance.In July 2007, Xandros bought Scalix, a Linux-based email and collaboration product, based on HP OpenMail. In July 2008, Xandros acquired Linspire. As of October 2013, Xandros’ website is unresponsive (with their last update being in November 2009) and DistroWatch lists Xandros as discontinued.On 1 January 2018, it was announced that PC/OpenSystems LLC purchased Xandros and Linspire from Bridgeways, Inc. In late 2020, PC/OpenSystems LLC revived Xandros under the name Xandros OpenDesktop (a commercial release) and Xandros OpenServer (a free release), based on Ubuntu 20.04.

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