Welcome to BEERnix
This is a really basic page abot BEERnix. BEERnix is current;y still in it very early stages and is not really polished, same goes for this web site. If you or anyone you know who like to help design a web page/site, and, current;y, a nice desktop background, please contact me, Matt Nicholson at sjoeboo@sjoeboo.com
What is BEERnix?
BEERnix is a Linux distribution. It is a dirivitive of Knoppix. It runs straigth off of a cd, but is also installable to a harddrive. IT IS CUURENTLY BETA, meaning it isn't perfect in anyway. There are thing i still wish to remove and add, and all sorts of other fun stuff.
Why name it BEERnix?
Because I like Beer. In fact, i can promise almost all work done on
BEERnix was done with a beer in hand. Plus a long time ago when I first
saw linux (debian in this case) the kernel boot image had the penguin
with a beer in hand, i loved it. Plus, as the logo says,
"You don't buy beer, you rent it" BEERnix is free (you don't buy it)
and it runs off a cd (your computer rents it) ...yeah..so..its BEERnix
:)
Features of BEERnix:
Runs off of a cd!
Only about 400MB download!
Unlike other mini-spawns of KNOPPIX, this has a full fledged Linux
Kernel and XFree86 Enviroment!
Fluxbox as a window manager for speed on the slowest computers!
Abiword for word procesing (can read and write many
formats including MS Word!)
XMMS for all of your audio needs!
Mplayer, with tons of codecs installed for maximum video!
Mozilla-Firebird and Thunderbird, for fast web browsing and e-mail!
Nmap-frontend, eathereal, ettercap and various other netowrk/auditing
tools!
a full development enviroment!(gcc, g++ perl, python, etc)
and its current! (When a release is posted, it will
normally have the newest packages up to that day or one or two before)
BEERnix shourtcuts:
alt+F1 (F2, F3, F4) = swithc to workspace # 1
(2,3,4)
alt+x = start a terminal
control+r = opena run dialog for single commands
Right click on the Desktop for a menu. (duh)
Want to help out?
I could use people familiar with:
remastering/customizing KNOPPIX
Somone to test and find bugs
Someone to help with this
website.
Somone to work on a background/theme for BEERnix.
if you would like to helpout at all, please, post in the
forum!
Where to get BEERnix?
Released isos will always be availible at the BEERnix Project page at berliOS.
And. as always, if you use BEERnix and have any
coments, requests for things to be removed/added, bugs, fixes or
anything to say at all, please, post in the
forum.
This Project is wonderfully hosted at: