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===Commercial editions=== ==== Xandros Desktop Home Edition ==== This edition came with a 30-day trial of [[CrossOver|Crossover Office]]. It also included an "Applications CD" which includes extra programs which can be installed via Xandros Networks. 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. ==== Xandros Desktop Home Edition Premium ==== This edition came with a full version of Crossover Office Standard Edition, and a second CD (the "Applications CD") which included extra applications which could be installed via Xandros Networks. Despite its name, Xandros Desktop Home Edition Premium did not include a Xandros Networks Premium Membership. Xandros Corporation offered a 30-day trial version of Xandros Home Edition Premium as a free download for evaluation purposes. ==== Xandros Desktop Professional ==== Formerly known as Xandros Desktop Business Edition, this edition was basically the same as Xandros Desktop Home Edition Premium, but it included the ability to authenticate to Windows PDC and [[Active Directory]] Domains, used [[Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol|PPTP]] VPN to connect remotely to the office, and used [[wireless broadband|broadband wireless]] connectivity with [[3G]], [[GSM]] and [[Universal Mobile Telecommunications System|UMTS]] support. Xandros Desktop Professional was officially released on 28 November 2006. As with Home Edition Premium, Xandros Corporation also offered a 30-day trial version of Xandros Professional. ==== Presto ==== Introduced in 2009, Presto was a lightweight "instant-on" operating system which uses the lightweight [[Xfce#Version 4|Xfce 4.6]] [[desktop environment]]. Similar to [[Canonical Ltd.|Canonical]]'s [[Wubi (Ubuntu installer)|Wubi]] installer for [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]], it was installed inside of Microsoft Windows, with Windows XP as the earliest supported version. It also had access to an "application store" based on [[CNR (software)|CNR]], which was acquired through Xandros' acquisition of [[Linspire]] in mid-2008. ==== Xandros Moblin ==== In 2009, Xandros announced that it would develop a new netbook operating system based on [[Moblin|Moblin v2]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xandros.com:80/news/press_releases/Xandros_Creates_Enhanced_User_Experience.html |title=Xandros Creates Enhanced User Experience for Netbook Users with Moblin V2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030203111601/http://www.xandros.com/news/press_releases/Xandros_Creates_Enhanced_User_Experience.html |archive-date=3 February 2003 }}</ref>
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