When Xandros was first released in the early years of the 2000's after Xandros acquired Corel Linux they had a release called the Xandros Open Circulation which was their free to download, non-commercial use and free to use version of Xandros DesktopOS. We have fielded calls from past Xandros customers and our users about something like that. So we have decided to do that.
Xandros CommunityDesktop 2022 is our version of "open circulation". Xandros CommunityDesktop 2022. Since CommunityDesktop will be free to use and redistribute for non-commercial use there will be some caveats to that. It will contain limited codec support and will not contain many of our OpenDesktop capabilities. There will not be any multi-filesystem support, no remote administration capabilities, and no Virtual Machine support. Xandros CommunityDesktop will also follow the upgrade schedule of Xandros. While Freespire and Linspire will be upgraded to the 22.04 base in 2023, Xandros will not be upgraded to a new base until 2024 . Xandros CommunityDesktop will be community supported only and no warranty expressed or implied will be offered.
Xandros CommunityDesktop will follow our recent strategy of using cloud apps instead of traditional desktop apps and will utilize Googles services as default. There will be NO Office 365 release of CommunityDesktop.
Now some people will ask what does this mean for Freespire and Linspire? Nothing at all. Freespire and Linspire will continue to be developed and distributed for consumer desktop users. Home users, school, gamers and freelance developers and Xandros will continue to be developed and distributed for our education, enterprise and professional customers.
Another question that many of our customers will ask; can we add Xandros CommunityDesktop to our current support contracts? No. Xandros CommunityDesktop will be community support only if you wish to add an additional license to your support contract you will have to purchase an extra license for Xandros OpenDesktop
First release will be available mid January 2022
