Berry Linux is a LiveCDLinux distribution based on Fedora 7. It features automatic hardware detection, support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI, USB devices and many other peripherals. If you have network devices, they are auto-configured DHCP so you can use Internet. It comes with OpenOffice, a Microsoft Office compatible office suite, and the GIMP, a piece of graphics software. Berry Linux can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, or rescue system. It is not necessary to install anything on the hard disk. But it's able to install on hard disk. (Needs 1.7GB free space)
The current version is 0.82 (July 10, 2007) and is in English and Japanese.
The full version (v0.82) includes OpenOffice.org version 2.2, Gimp 2.2, and runs on Linux Kernel 2.6. It is about 531.8 MB, while the mini version (v0.80) is about 128.9 MB. It has built-in support for AIGLX, and 3D Desktop. Unlike most modern distrobutions, it supports writing to a NTFS partition (commonly used in Windows), where in most distributions, it is mounted read only. Berry Linux is not necessary to install. This is because the root partition is in the ramdisc using initrd, all commands are operated by being transferred from CD-ROM.
