Xandros

. The Allies proposed invasions of Japan would have begun on "X-Day" (Kyushu, scheduled for November 1945) and "Y-Day" (Honshu, scheduled for March 1946). Xandros has won awards for their products, including the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo's Best Front Office Solution, various editor's choice awards in several magazines, and the CNET Editor's Choice award. For example, Douglas MacArthur's invasion of Leyte began on "A-day", and the invasion of Okinawa began on "L Day". The package includes several other themes including KDE, Mac OS 9, and Unix. (In French, it is called Jour-J or Le Choc.) Because of this, planners of later military operations sometimes avoided the term. The KDE interface has been modified to resemble Microsoft Windows, with a rectangular "launch" button similar to the Windows Start button, modified context menus, and a file manager with a Windows 98 appearance. Dwight Eisenhower to delay until 6 June and that date has been popularly referred to ever since by the short title "D-day".

Installation of Xandros is done by a wizard that asks questions about partitioning and the administrator (root) password. D-day for the invasion of Normandy by the allies was originally set for 5 June 1944, but bad weather caused Gen. It also uses a package manager known as Xandros Networks, which handles installation of software. Mihiel Salient.". The Xandros GUI uses a modified version of the K Desktop Environment (KDE), which includes replacing Konqueror with its own proprietary file manager called XFM. In Field Order Number 9, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces, dated 7 September 1918: "The First Army will attack at H hour on D day with the object of forcing the evacuation of the St. It easily sets up repositories as it deploys customized Xandros Desktop configurations across a large organization. Army that the Center of Military History has been able to find was during World War I.

Xandros Desktop Mangement Server or xDMS is already available. The earliest use of these terms by the U.S. It is expected to ship by the end of the year 2005. At the appropriate time, a subsequent order is issued that states the actual day and times. The server works with Linux and Windows environments. Thus, orders are issued for the various steps to be carried out on the D-day or H-hour minus or plus a certain number of days, hours, or minutes. The current beta test of Xandros Small Business Server or xSBS already runs both Apache and Samba servers. Planning papers for large-scale operations are made up in detail long before specific dates are set.

For more information on the different editions, please see the external link "Xandros Desktop Matrix". H+75 minutes means H-hour plus 1 hour and 15 minutes. The web browser Mozilla Firefox and the email client Mozilla Thunderbird are included. Thus, H−3 means 3 hours before H-hour, and D+3 means 3 days after D-day. Unlike the other editions, there is no e-mail support or user guide (Deluxe and Business editions only). When used in combination with figures, and plus or minus signs, these terms indicate the point of time preceding or following a specific action. This has a limited set of additional software; for example, in Xandros File Manager, CD burning speed is limited to the minimum burning speed of the CD drive (usually 4x speed) only, and it only comes with a 30-day trial of CrossOver Office instead of the full version included in the deluxe and business editions. There is but one D-day and one H-hour for all units participating in a given operation.

Finally, Xandros Open Circulation Edition is a freely redistributable edition for non-commercial use. They designate the day and hour of the operation when the day and hour have not yet been determined, or where secrecy is essential. This version also includes CrossOver Office for running applications designed for Microsoft Windows and comes with a user manual and 90 days of free e-mail support. The terms D-day and H-hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. There also tools for the administration and deployment of Xandros desktops within a company or institution. However, many other invasions and operations had a designated D-Day, both before and after Operation Overlord. Xandros Business Desktop is more expensive but includes support for Active Directory, and advanced microprocessor features like SMP and Hyperthreading. By far, the most well known D-Day is June 6, 1944 — the day on which "Operation Overlord" began — commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.

Surfside Linux also includes a USB headset for communications and gaming. Whilst the initial D in D-day is not an abbreviation of anything, it is taken from the word day and represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar terms. Alternatively, Surfside Linux comes with a user manual, 30 days of free e-mail support, and bundles a wide array of Internet software including several versions of Skype. In English military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. Its installer can resize NTFS partitions, and also bundles more software. The Deluxe edition includes a user manual, 60 days of free e-mail support, and the ability to run Microsoft Windows applications with CrossOver Office.

There are three editions, Standard, Deluxe and Surfside Linux. Xandros Desktop is for the home user, which is cheaper and easier to use than higher end versions. Xandros makes products for both the consumer and business markets. .

Version 4.0 of Xandros is scheduled for release in early-to-mid 2006. The current edition of Xandros as of December 28, 2005, is Version 3.0 (Version 3.0.2 includes the Xandros SP2 update already installed; previous versions of Xandros 3.0 can download the SP2 updates through the Xandros Networks). Xandros is also a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium. Their distributions are based on Corel Linux, a Debian-based distribution which was acquired from Corel Corporation that same year after Corel decided to leave the Linux distribution market.

Founded in 2001, the company is located in New York City and Ottawa, Ontario. It is the creator of Xandros Desktop (a distribution of Linux), known for focus on business and new computer users and for being visually similar to Windows XP. Xandros is a company that produces Linux distributions.