We give an overview of Linux distribution called Bio-Linux, as a general bioinformatics platform meаnt for use by biologists and bioinformatics scientists. In the beginning, we give a short overview of bioinformatics, its history and development. After that, we present the reasons that have contributed to the emergence and development of the Bio-Linux operating system, as well as some of its main features. We compared this one with others bio-oriented distributions that are known in the literature and with the two most popular scientific distributions today: Scientific Linux and Fedora Scientific. In the end, we emphasised the didactical role of Bio-Linux. The goal of this paper is to inform the broader professional community in the western Balkans with the potentials of Bio-Linux OS and to point out some aspects that might be useful for the bioinformatics development in the region.
