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Review: BeatrIX GNU/Linux

Posted by michael on from the pick-your-poison dept.

Preston St. Pierre writes "BeatrIX GNU/Linux is a LiveCD based off of Knoppix and Ubuntu packages. It is a small, fast desktop environment built for the average Windows user / Linux convert wannabe. I noticed BeatrIX on DistroWatch a few weeks ago, and the looks of it interested me. I've always liked Debian-based distributions, and BeatrIX was curiously different from many of them I've tried so far. I found that it met my expectations, though there was certainly room for improvement."

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  1. Re:Sounds cool... by poofyhairguy82 · · Score: 2, Informative
    But apparently the distro does not have GCC and it was difficult to get. That's a Bad Thing.

    Don't look here. From link:

    "When I tried to install the NVidia video drivers, I found that their install script failed. First, they couldn't find a driver for my kernel in the package or on their website. Second, they attempted to compile the drivers, but GCC wasn't installed."

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