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Xandros Wins LinuxWorld Award

Leading Developer of Easy-to-use Linux Alternatives to Windows Takes Coveted Top Spot in the Linux Desktop Category
By LBN Industry News Desk
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August 11, 2005 03:00 AM EDT
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Xandros won a major award here at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo yesterday. The Xandros Desktop was chosen as the 'Best Desktop/Productivity/Business Application' in LinuxWorld's Product Excellence Awards, managed by the editors of LinuxWorld Magazine in close collaboration with IDG World Expo and announced at the show by SYS-CON Media West Coast bureau chief Roger Strukhoff.

Xandros Desktop is the successor to the critically acclaimed Corel LINUX OS and is continuing with the develoment that established Corel LINUX OS as the leading desktop Linux distribution.

Ming Poon, VP for Software Development at Xandros, gave an exclusive interview this morning in San Francisco to SYS-CON.TV. He explained how Xandros to this day maintains the approach that wthe team behind it started at Corel and which has continued, which is to pick the best of breed apps, and fix those apps so that they work reliably and consistently.

Ming Poon was the founder of Corel Linux. With this prestigious new award, the Xandros Desktop will continue its rise and rise.


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Linux Newbie 08/10/05 12:10:29 PM EDT

S I can have a more stable OS than Windows, free of all the Windows viruses out there, and can still access all my Windows files and office documents? Seems to me like it's time to try Xandros.