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Xandros has created a desktop solution that combines the best of open source technologies with a corporate attention to completeness, usability, and support. Version 1 of the Desktop product was based on the award winning Corel LINUX OS and represents the next step in the evolution of the Corel desktop. Based in Ottawa, the Xandros team includes the world-renowned developers and architects of the award winning Corel LINUX OS. Xandros has inherited a sizeable user base from Corel LINUX OS from which it was significantly expanding its market presence. Xandros was currently developing its direct and indirect distribution channels for corporate, government, home, and educational users world wide. Xandros has established a world class technical support team. Xandros was also developing an extensive professional services presence to enhance its capabilities to support relationships with larger clients and partners.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2023-09-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Armbian 23.8.1 |
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The Armbian team has announced the release of Armbian 23.08, a Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for ARM development boards, supporting a large range of popular armhf, aarch64, and riscv64 devices: "We are very pleased to announce the public availability of Armbian OS 23.08, the Linux distribution, and 23.08 package set, under the codename 'Colobus'. After the complete rework of our build framework, we proceeded with refreshing repository management and automation processes. We have significantly stabilized both our framework and many hardware platforms we are taking care of. Changelog: add Crust to Allwinner boards to enable power management functions; add support for most recent memory chips on BPi M5; backport Bananapi CM4 to kernel 6.1 LTS; provide official distro upgrades; adding armbian-gaming as extension; introduce grub-with-dtb extension...." See the release announcement and the release changelog for further details. The project's download page provides a lists supported devices; here are the links to the generic x86 variant with the 6.1.50 Linux kernel and a choice of Cinnamon, GNOME or Xfce desktops: Armbian_23.8.1_Uefi-x86_bookworm_current_6.1.50_cinnamon_desktop.img.xz (2,188MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Armbian_23.8.1_Uefi-x86_bookworm_current_6.1.50_gnome_desktop.img.xz (2,152MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Armbian_23.8.1_Uefi-x86_bookworm_current_6.1.50_xfce_desktop.img.xz (2,094MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM development boards. It is usually based on one of the stable or development versions of Debian or Ubuntu and it supports a wide variety of popular ARM-based devices, including Banana Pi, Cubieboard, Olimex, Orange Pi, Odroid, Pine64 and others. Armbian includes a menu-driven configuration tool along with stock Debian utilities, the Bash shell, and a choice of Cinnamon or Xfce desktop.
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| 2023-05-31 |
Distribution Release: Armbian 23.05.1 |
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Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM development boards. It is usually based on one of the stable or development versions of Debian or Ubuntu and it supports a wide variety of popular ARM-based devices. The project's latest release is version 23.05.1 which adds the i3 window manager as a graphical user interface options. The project's release announcement offers additional details: "We are pleased to announce several improvements and enhancements at the user level: Armbian Bookworm based images: We are introducing Armbian Bookworm-based images, providing the latest features and updates from Debian community. i3 supported: i3 has been added as the fourth officially supported desktop environment, expanding the options available to our users. Fixes and Enhancements: We have addressed issues in key tools such as armbian-installer, armbian-config, and armbian-firstrun, ensuring a smoother user experience. Streamlined Packages: We have optimized our package base, making it nearly identical across different underlying package bases and desktop choices. This standardization improves predictability and enhances security. Consistent Application Packages: Regardless of the chosen package base or desktop environment, the application packages remain the same. This ensures consistent functionality and ease of use." Further details can be found in the changelog. The project's download page lists available supported devices. |
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| 2023-03-02 |
Distribution Release: Armbian 23.02 |
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Armbian 23.02 is the latest release from a project providing a lightweight Linux distribution optimised for custom ARM, RISC-V or Intel hardware, with fully-featured Xfce, GNOME or Cinnamon-based desktop. This version upgrades the Linux kernel to the long-term supported version 6.1: "Armbian 23.02 'Quoll' is now available. It features a new LTS kernel based on Linux 6.1.y (where possible), with builds around 'Bullseye' and 'Jammy', as well as Debian 'Bookworm' and Ubuntu 'Lunar' for developers. Armbian OS remains one of the most popular operating systems on the new Rockchip RK3588 platform, featuring official support for Radxa Rock 5 and Orange Pi 5. This will be the last release before we switch to the new build framework, which has been completely rewritten. The new build framework has an advanced but simple-to-use logging system and we no longer use external compilers and the caching system has been reworked to maximize space and computing resources. Compilation works on all architectures and operating systems, including now officially supporting WSL2." See the release announcement and the changelog for further details. The project provides images for a vast range of computers and boards, including a generic Intel/AMD builds, based on Debian 11 and Ubuntu 22.04; please visit the download page to see the full list of supported devices. |
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