[2] Xandros was founded in May 2001 by Linux Global Partners (Will Roseman and Dr. Frederick Berenstein).

[5] In July 2007, Xandros bought Scalix, a Linux-based email and collaboration product, based on HP OpenMail.

As opposed to Home Edition Premium, the Home Edition did not include the photo manager, music manager, security suite, wireless profiles, or the ability to write to NTFS partitions.

It also had access to an "application store" based on CNR, which was acquired through Xandros' acquisition of Linspire in mid-2008.

It easily set up repositories as it deploys customized Xandros Desktop configurations across a large organization.

(This would be similar to the way Novell bases SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on their free openSUSE and to the way Red Hat bases Red Hat Enterprise Linux on their free Fedora.)

[15] In addition, the DistroWatch website has added Freespire to its list of discontinued distributions.

Installation of Xandros was done by a wizard that asks questions about partitioning and the administrator (root) password.

The BridgeWays Management Pack Suite of products includes: In 2010 BridgeWays is “Extending System Center”, by expanding the scope and market potential for Systems Center, with Windows, Linux, UNIX and VMware application environment monitoring.

BridgeWays’ only focus is on building, selling and supporting Management Packs for System Center.

The installed version of Xandros is tab based, built from scratch using Xlib and the Qt 4.5 toolkit.

The full desktop version (or "Advanced Mode") may be installed—but not always easily—through a set of administrative command prompts.

[19][20] In February 2009 it was announced Xandros is porting its Eee PC Linux distribution to 2 ARM processor-based (Freescale i.MX515 & the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU) platforms for netbooks & other mobile devices.