Baltix

GNU/Linux
	Baltix 14.04 screenshot (GNOME GUI)
Developer	Open Source for Lithuania / Mantas Kriaučiūnas
OS family	Linux
Working state	In production / development
Source model	Open source
Latest release	20.04.2 / 20 March 2021; 5 years ago
Kernel type	Monolithic
License	Free software licenses; (mainly GNU GPL)
Official website	baltix.eu

Baltix GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution aimed to be a complete, user-friendly operating system for Lithuanian and Latvian people, based on Debian and Ubuntu. Supported languages include Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian, English, Norwegian and others near and around the Baltic region. The main language is Lithuanian.

It uses the GNOME desktop environment and is distributed as an installable Live CD.

The first public versions of Baltix GNU/Linux were released in 2003 and were based on Knoppix Live CD and Debian software packages, and later, on the Ubuntu operating system.

Additional software

Baltix has software packages not present in Ubuntu:

Educational software for kids and adults, including GCompris, TuxPaint, Atomix, etc.
Interesting and funny games, including Pingus, Chess, PlanetPenguin Racer
Vector graphic, CAD and diagram drawing software, including Inkscape, QCAD and Dia
Support for most video and audio formats, including DVD, DivX, AVI, MPEG, Xvid, Theora, Ogg Vorbis, MP3
Lightweight Desktop Environment - LXDE + PCManFM (older versions had IceWM as lightweight Window Manager)
Possibility to run lots of software, compiled for MS Windows OS (through Wine compatibility layer)
Clipart, CAD and office documents templates
Lots of other packages, which are useful for Lithuanians and other Baltic people, including
- universal dictionary software OpenDict
- various spelling and hyphenation dictionaries, etc.

Baltix can run directly from its live-usb, without installation to a computer's permanent storage (hard disk, solid state drive, etc.), but also can be installed into a computer's Linux or Windows partition(s).

Baltix Goals

Easy and right away ready for majority of Lithuanian, Latvian and Russian home/office users (no need to install additional software for multimedia support or office work, e.g. spelling dictionaries or templates)
Possibility to run software, compiled for most popular operating systems, like Windows
Possibility to work comfortably on older computers (starting from 64 MB RAM and 200 MHz CPU), little resources consuming desktop environment is included (currently LXDE)
Comfortable for computer manufacturers (Baltix 0.8.x, 1.x and 20.04) has a noninteractive automatic installation (autoinstall) feature - OS can be installed into computer in about 10 minutes without user intervention.

Related pages

References

↑ "Announce of Baltix-Knoppix". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
↑ "About Baltix GNU/Linux". Archived from the original on 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
↑ Baltix Goals (Ubuntu wiki)
↑ Baltix Goals (in Lithuanian language)

Other websites

[1] "Announce of Baltix-Knoppix". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2008-06-14.

[2] "About Baltix GNU/Linux". Archived from the original on 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2008-06-14.

[3] Baltix Goals (Ubuntu wiki)

[4] Baltix Goals (in Lithuanian language)