Hope in the future!

Jul 28, 2006 17:24 GMT  ·  By

Berry Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution with automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices, and many other peripherals.

Berry Linux features:

? Support for Kernel-2.6. ALSA, ACPI, selinux ? Overlay Filesystem Support ? Berry Linux is not necessary to install. (Root partition is in the ramdisc using initrd, all commands are operated by being transfered from CD-ROM) ? Install without parting patitions on Windows to use install.bat. (Using squashfs/cloop/loopback device) ? It's possible to install Berry Linux on hard disk. (Use Berry Linux Installer or Copy under /BERRY/, and set up LILO) ? Berry Linux can boot from USB-HDD/memory ? Berry Linux uses WHIZ, a very sharp Kana-Kanji conversion system. (WHIZ Project) ? Automatically recognizes USB storage, and show icons ? Berry Linux uses free Japanese True Type Fonts ? Berry Linux uses bootsplash when booting ? Berry Linux uses DHCP to connect the Network. (If you'd like to use PPPoE, you should setting up it on the Terminal) ? It's possible to save personal setting ? Red Hat Fedora compatible ? It uses new technologies ? You can listen to mp3 using XMMS, and play DVD/DivX using MPlayer and XINE ? You can edit files of Microsoft Word, Excel by OpenOffice

Berry Linux can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD or rescue system. You don't have to install anything on your hard drive, but it's able to install on hard disk (it needs about 1.7 GB free space) using the Berry Linux Installer.

Berry Linux is based on the popular Fedora Core 5 Linux distribution.

Let's see what applications does Berry Linux include:

? KDE 3.5.3 ? Xgl/X.Org 7.0 + Bold Patch ? OpenOffice 2.0.3 ? Beep Media Player 0.9.7.1 ? GIMP Version 2.2.11 ? MPlayer 1.0pre8 ? Xine 0.99.4 ? Kaffeine 0.7.1 ? K3b 0.12.14 ? Digikam 0.8.1 ? Firefox 1.5.0.4 ? Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 ? Sylpheed 2.2.5 ? InkScape 0.43 ? Tvtime 0.9.15 ? Wine 0.9.17 ...any many more!

Yuichiro Nakada is the man behind Berry Linux and he did a very great job with this project. This latest edition of Berry Linux benefits of kernel 2.6.17 and comes bundled with XGL.

Here is the screenshot tour of Berry Linux:

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Download Berry Linux now from Softpedia.