14 DAY TRIAL // Berry Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution based on Fedora and aimed mostly at the Japanese market. The latest update, Berry Linux 1.01, is based on the latest stable release, Fedora 12, and comes with updated packages, especially the very latest stable versions. It uses a customized KDE 4 environment, the latest version plucked from Fedora 12, KDE 4.4.0. Both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are now at the newest versions and the Microsoft Windows networking suite Samba has also been updated.
Highlights of Berry Linux 1.01:
· Based on Fedora 12; · KDE 4.4.0; · X.Org 1.7.5 - with AIGLX; · SLiM 1.3.1 - login manager; · SRWare Iron 4.0.275.2 - web browser based on Google Chrome (Chromium); · Firefox 3.6 - Japanese and English locales; · Thunderbird 3.0.3 - Japanese and English locales; · Samba 3.4.7; · Wine 1.1.38; · LXTerminal 0.1.6.
Under the hood of Berry Linux 1.01:
· Kernel 2.6.32.9 - with SMP, ndev/udev and bootsplash; · Glibc 2.11.1; · GCC 4.4.3; · Busybox 1.15.3.
The new version, Berry Linux 1.01, also comes with a couple of removed packages, specifically Sylpheed 2.5.0, both the Japanese and English versions, and rxvt-unicode 9.06.
About Berry Linux
Berry Linux comes as a Live CD, but it can also be booted from a USB drive. It can also be installed from the live environment to create a persistent home. Another option is installing it from inside Windows without the need to create a dedicated partition by using a squashfs/cloop/loopback device.
Berry Linux is created by a Japanese developer, Yuichiro Nakada, so it features several tools aimed specifically at that market. For example, Berry Linux comes with WHIZ, a "very sharp Kana-Kanji conversion system," free Japanese True Type Fonts and easy options to switch to Japanese input, using the right Alt key (Alt Gr).
Download Berry Linux 1.01 right now from Softpedia.