Be welcome in a GNU world!

 

 

dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, having automatically recognized most device and peripherals: audio, video, TV, network cards, firewire, usb and more; all using only free software!
It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning them into full media stations: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters.

 

 

dyne:bolic is RASTA software released free under the GNU General Public License.
This software is about Digital Resistance ina babylon world which tries to control the way we communicate, we share our interests and knowledge.

The Roots of Rastafari movement are in resistance to slavery: this software is one step in the struggle for Redemption and Freedom from proprietary, closed-source and resource intensive software.
 
 RASTASOFT 
 

 

Core Features

 

Environment Friendly
 

Stop consumerism! optimize your resources


This operating system is designed to run on a minimum of Pentium 1 MMX processor with at least 64MB of RAM (memory), not even an harddisk is needed. It can be used to stream online radio with a Pentium 2 400MHZ or a Xbox game console, all very cheap on the second hand market.
Dynebolic is optimized to be simple and friendly to the users as well to the environment.
 

 

Install? Dock!
 

The simpliest installation ever ;)
 


To install just copy the dyne/ folder from inside the CD to an HardDisk partition, no need to format, resize or delete anything.
 

 

Nest your Home
 

The Nomadic Way
 

Keep all your home and settings inside a single file that you can move around: you'll not need a laptop to have an operating system with you, just a CD and a USB memory stick.
 

 

Privacy protection
 

Noone else than *you* can ensure privacy for your personal data
 


The internet offers plenty of free services, on the wave of the Web2.0 fuzz and the community boom, while all private informations are hosted on servers owned by global corporations and monopolies.
And the one that protects you rips you off - as the arabs say.
Keep your privacy with you, and keep it safe.
This operating system provides easy to use Rijndael/SHA256 encryption (AES) when nested. ----> (read more on privacy)
 
 

Personal PC cluster
 

El Calculo Unido Jamas Sera' Vencido !
 


Running dyne:bolic you automatically join the CPU power of all the computers on your local network: let the old computer work together with the new, united they'll all work better.

OpenMosix clustering is in dyne:bolic version 1 only


Press reviews

 

 

 

Top Ten Open Source Project 2005

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 from the what-makes-you-happy dept.                                                      

arclightfire writes "We recently wrote an article for The Independent listing the top ten open source projects. It was hard getting the list down to ten, but we did; here's the top ten - Wikipedia, Firefox, Open Office, Bittorrent, MediaWiki, Xvid, pbb, Outfoxed, dyne:bolic, GIMP, Apache and SourceForge."


The Dyne:Bolic distribution is a live CD designed for creating, broadcasting, and publishing all kinds of audio, video, and graphic content. It includes some of the best free and open source tools with which you can compose music, mix video streams, and create 3-D animations. read more

 by Mayank Sharma, tuesday april 10, 2007

It has all the right apps for an artist to express his creativity, without the headache of installing and configuring them. By making the distro from scratch, the developers have managed to keep its hardware requirements low.


Readers with older Windows PCs can use a bootable CD like Dyne:bolic to run the Linux version of Pure Data on their machine without affecting their Windows installation, creating audio files in Linux before transferring them into their sequencer.
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 by Adam Armfield, august 2006

The Sound on Sound magazine reviews Pure Data, the visual language for digital signal processing also included in dyne:bolic, and recommends our distribution to audio professionals wanting to experience the power and flexibility of GNU/Linux.


Even if you don't intend to quit your day job and embark on a career as a DJ, Dyne:bolic is worth looking at. The fact that several difficult-to-install applications (Cinelerra and Jahshaka, for example) work out-of-the-box in Dyne:bolic is impressive and reason enough to keep the distro around. read more

 by Nathan Willis, monday march 13, 2006

I would dearly like to use Cinelerra on a regular basis, but the recommended installation procedure would jeopardize my system's stability, something I am hesitant to do for the sake of one app. Docking Dyne:bolic 1.4.1 on my hard disk, on the other hand, makes it completely painless.


Multimedia producers and artists will have the power to fully customise their own tailored GNU/Linux environment on a bootable CD with the release of Dyne:II by the end of the year. read more

 by D. McConnachie, friday october 21, 2005

Aimed at multimedia producers, artists, activists, and content creators, the Dyne:bolic multimedia platform on a bootable CD offers a vast range of software for multimedia production, streaming, 3-D modelling, photo editing, Web browsing and publishing, peer-to-peer file sharing, and networking.


closeup on Jaromil, the artisan behind dyne:bolic, a nomad rastaman walking thru India. read more

 by A. Sankar, tuesday february 8, 2005

He is an artist (multi-faceted); free software programmer, a Rastafarian, a social worker, and is a squatter on a vacant plot in Amsterdam.

FULL review of dyne:bolic 1.2
The Multimedia GNU/Linux

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 by James Pryor, thursday march 24, 2004

A very detailed review, complete with lots of screenshots, thru the multimedia capabilities of various audio and video applications. This text is very clear and objective, also useful as a tutorial for who wants to get hold of the "fine assorment of applications included" in dyne:bolic.

Xbox clusters up at Linux Expo

an article commenting the new dyne:bolic feature presented at the .ORG village in the Linux Expo UK
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 by Matt Loney, friday october 10, 2003

On the stand of a multimedia-oriented GNU/Linux distribution called dyne:bolic, operating system author and maintainer Jaromil -- the moniker he prefers to be known by -- was demonstrating a hacked Xbox that can be used to offload processing tasks from a mixed cluster of PCs and Xboxes.

dyne:bolic CD on your modded xbox!
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Boot a CD and Make Your X-Box Join the Cluster
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 From the getting-easier-and-easier and the cheap-distributed-computing departments, two features mention dyne:bolic.

jaromil writes "The dyne:bolic bootable CD distribution is almost getting to its final 1.0 release, includes a whole bunch of multimedia applications making it easy to edit and stream audio and video, encrypt mails, share p2p and of course play games, all with a fancy GNUStep desktop. download the 1.0 alpha 5 ISO (~350Mb) and try it on your PC or XBOX!" One more reason to mod an xbox.

GNU/Linux for the populace

The Hindu features an article to help ordinary netizens discover the potential of GNU/Linux
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 by J. Murali, monday july 7, 2003

...one drawback of many of these products is that to install it on your machine you need to be a little tech-savvy, especially if you are a Windows user who wants to keep the existing set-up intact. Therefore, in the absence of necessary skills/resources, many netizens, who are keen to enter the exciting world of GNU/Linux, shy away from it.
There is thus the need for a version of GNU/Linux that can be deployed easily by person without the requisite technical skills -- a GNU/Linux version for the common man. The free software DyneBolic is one such product.

Best of Linux Award to MuSE

DaveCentral awards the MuSE streamer software, also created by jaromil and later included in dyne:bolic.
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 by Dave Central, 4 june 2001

That's the way, a huh, a huh, I like it.... Eh hemmm!" I'm sorry, you just caught me working out my next musical mix with my wondrous MuSE . I've been inspired by the Multiple Streaming Engine program. MuSE allows me to express my deep appreciation for music like never before.