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BeatrIX Linux

"It comes with Gnome 2.8, and even OpenOffice.org, which is
amazing for a less-than-200 mb installation."

-- Tech Patterns tech forum

BeatrIX Linux is a free, compact (Less than 200 megabytes), operating system aimed at both office and home users who want something simpler, safer and superior to Microsoft Windows, and that will run on just about any IBM-compatible PC made in the past 10 years. It runs as a live CD or it can be installed to hard drive. As a live CD, it does not touch your hard drive or touch any other operating system you have. SImply insert the CD, re-boot, and about two minutes later, you're surfing the Internet, writing letters, sending e-mail and instant-chatting. All this from a CD the size of a beer coaster. BeatrIX was developed after over two years of research and testing, and was first released in 2004.

"When compared with modern five-CD distributions,
BeatrIX is less than one fifteenth of the size."

BeatrIX is designed differently than any other system. Yes, it's Linux, but it doesn't look like Linux. Or Windows. Or Macintosh. It simply looks like a computer desktop. That desktop has only four icons -- all easily recoginsable by anyone who's used a Windows, Mac or Linux computer in the last decade. So, anyone can use it with little or no help. It took us a year to release our first version because so much time was devoted to usability and stability. We tested BeatrIX by grabbing people off the street in Prague, Czech Republic, give them a beer (Yes, the beer is that good.) and let them work with BeatrIX. It's simple enough for anyone to use, powerful enough to actualy be useful, small enough to fit on a mini-CD or flash drive.

"BeatrIX is a distribution that I could give to my Aunt Jane
and she probably wouldn't even notice she wasn't using Windows."

The new BeatrIX 2005.1 contains the latest Linux stable kernel (operating system) a Windows-like desktop (Gnome), Web browser (Firefox), e-mail program (Evolution), office suite including an outstanding word processor compatible with Microsoft Word (Open Office), instant-chat program (GAIM) and everything else necessary to get things done with no problems. You can also add almost any program to BeatrIX from the world's largest Linux library -- everything from Web servers to Web editors. Free.

"What the BeatrIX team has done is think outside
the box. Notice the most important thing? The emphasis
is not on Linux, rather it's on WORK."

--Adityanag.com

It is optimised for any Pentium-class computer of any speed with at least 64 megs of RAM. At the other end of the spectrum, it runs flawlessly on an Opteron 64. It was originally designed for a special computer system called the mini-ITX but it runs on nearly anything. It also runs on the new generation of Intel-based Macs, which is where we use it daily, go figure.

"My Windows XP installation crashed and I couldn't get it up
and running again.... I downloaded (BeatrIX) from you guys
and burned it and booted up with it. All I can say is that you guys ROCK!"

-- User comment from Softpedia

That means it will run on about 75% of the personal computers in the world. You download it, burn it to CD, read less than a page of instructions and you no longer need Microsoft Windows for the majority of things that a majority of people do in the real world with a computer.

"I brought it to work for some newbie computer people. After using it, one said, 'Why isn't Windows this simple?'"

BeatrIX is now in use in 110 countries on every continent on Earth. It has been downloaded in excess of 400,000 times and is one of the fastest-growing software packages in the world, in use from Afghanistan to Zaire. And enjoy!