Xandros
Sign in to saveXandros, 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 Frederick Berenstein). The company was headquartered in New York City with its development office in Ottawa, Canada.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Xandros Inc.
- Company.logo
- Xandros logo.svg
- Company.industry
- Software industry
- Company.founded
- (by Linux Global Partners)
- Company.founders
- Will Roseman,Dr. Frederick Berenstein
- Company.fate
- bought by PC/Open Systems LLC
- Company.hq_location_city
- New York City
- Company.hq_location_country
- U.S.
- Company.products
- Xandros Desktop
- OS.name
- Xandros Desktop
- OS.screenshot
- 300px
- OS.caption
- Xandros Desktop 4.1 OCE
- OS.developer
- Xandros Incorporated
- OS.family
- Unix-like
- OS.source_model
- Open source mixed with closed source
- OS.kernel_type
- Monolithic
- OS.ui
- KDE
- OS.license
- GNU GPL with some proprietary software
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Linux distribution
- Official website
- www.xandros.com
- Image
- Xandros41OCE.png
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- software version identifier
- 4.2
- inception
- 2001-00-00
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- Commons category
- Xandros
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Products
- Commercial editions
- Xandros Desktop Home Edition
- Xandros Desktop Home Edition Premium
- Xandros Desktop Professional
- Presto
- Xandros Moblin
- Server systems
- Previous editions
- User interface
- BridgeWays for Microsoft Systems Center
- ASUS Eee PC
- References
- External links
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 Frederick Berenstein). The company was headquartered in New York City with its development office in Ottawa, Canada.
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 exit the Linux distribution market. Xandros was a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium and member of the Interop Vendor Alliance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Xandros” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.