US EditionMaintainer of Linux Distro AnduinOS Revealed to Be Microsoft Employee
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Anduin Xue, software engineer at Microsoft, revealed to be the creator and sole maintainer of AnduinOS, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that mimics the interface of Windows 11. This announcement aroused a keen interest in the open source community, highlighting the intersections between proprietary and free environments. AnduinOS 1.3 is based on Ubuntu 25.04, which means that it is supported until January 2026. What makes AnduinOS potential…
Maintainer of Linux Distro AnduinOS Revealed to Be Microsoft Employee
After gaining attention from Neowin and DistroWatch last week, the sole maintainer behind AnduinOS 1.3 -- a Linux distribution styled to resemble Windows 11 -- decided to reveal himself. He turns out to be Anduin Xue, a Microsoft software engineer, who has been working on the project as a personal, non-commercial endeavor built on Ubuntu. Neowin reports: As a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft (he doesn't work on Windows), Anduin Xue says he's fin…
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