MAT3 Impex is proud to announce the release of Baishakhi linux (version-1.0) that will allow all computer related decision making work, office activities and other computing in Bengali language. Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR) developed this distribution in collaboration with MAT3 Impex and IIT Kharagpur.
On 8th september, 2008, Baishakhi linux has been inaugurated at Paschimbanga Bangla Academy. In that inauguration ceremony, Dr. Debesh Kumar Das (the Hon. IT Minister of West Bengal) was the chief guest and Mr. Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury (the Hon. Higher Education Minister West Bengal) was the special guest.

State IT Minister Dr. Debesh Kumar Das, who unveiled the operating system, said "Bengali Linux would be the backbone of e-governance".
Computer communication and information technology are part of our daily lives. We need to bridge the gap between people and technology and for that we need a technology that understands the language of the people. Baishakhi Linux serves the purpose.

The Baishakhi keyboard layout is unicode compliant. Thus it gives a standard bengali computing.

One of the problems of developing Bengali software is that there is no corpus of words in the language. Society will try to create a corpus of Bengali words.