This is an announcement from the Linux Audio Users e-mail list that I thought
may be of interest to some of the members. Dyne:bolic is a live CD created
specifically for multi-media applications.
Enjoy,
Ed Richards
ANNUNCIAZIO'! ANNUNCIAZIO'! MARI' MARI', E' NATO NN'ATRE'CCRIATUR'!
dyne.org laboratorio di software libero autoprodotto, presenta:
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|___/ codename DYNE:TRAX
this is RASTA SOFTWARE, Jah Rastafari Livity bless your freedom!
FREE DOWNLOAD of the RAW ISO CD IMAGE
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612 MBytes of free software operating system
(see the download instructions below)
:: WHAT IS DYNE:BOLIC ?
Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole operating system
working straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on
the hard disk. You can try it out very easily and if you like it you can simply
copy a directory on your harddisk and run it locally.
Dyne:bolic is user-friendly, recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video,
firewire, and USB), and offers a VAST range of free software applications for
multimedia production, audio and video streaming, sound composition and
synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer2peer filesharing, web browsing,
desktop publishing, word processing, cd burning, email, encryption, remote
conferencing and even more.
It also includes many games and a world atlas navigator. It does automatic
clustering, joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local
network.
Last but not least: it works on modded XBOX game consoles.
Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to stimulate
the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog informations. It
takes birth as a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of
sharing information and knowledge.
:: WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE ?
The new release 1.2 codename "DYNE:TRAX" is a milestone fixing many outstanding
bugs of the previous version, while it also implement some major features
enhancements:
* lots of new software for musicians - and you can connect in/out between all
music applications with the JACK CONNECTION KIT, with professional quality and
low-latency results!
* the possibility to run dyne:bolic from harddisk, simply copying a directory
inside your partition and that's it! it runs BLAZING FAST - new software
functionalities for desktop publishing, video manipulation and live audio/video
conferencing via multicast - wider device support and revamped startup scripts
and SDK
and here is the complete ChangeLog:
= 1.2 milestone "DYNE:TRAX"
* dockable system: dynebolic can run from harddisk, simply copying the /dyne
dir on your partition.
It goes much faster then, especially on xbox. - [dyne:trax] sound production
suite: native ALSA + JACK low latency rackable sound studio audio software
included: alsa-patch-bay-1.0, freqtweak-0.5.3, jack-rack-1.4.3, ladcca-0.4,
qjackctl-0.2.4, Soundtracker-0.6.7, spiralsyntmodular-0.2.2, pd-0.37-1test6
with iemlib, zexy and GEM, Hydrogen.
* new software: JahShaka-1.9a5, jack-0.94 (dyne:trax) Scribus-1.0.1,
Firewallbuilder-1.1.2, potrace-1.2, Mutt-1.5.6i, OpenMash (mbone conferencing
tools), xvidcap-1.1.3, Transcode-0.6.12,
Gringotts-1.2.7
* updated software: Mpeg4Ip-1.0, RDesktop-1.3.1, Rezound-0.9b, Palantir-2.5.4,
FreeJ-0.6.1-cvs, Firefox-0.8, Gtk-2.2.4, GnuPG-1.2.4, Gpa-0.7-cvs,
Sylpheed-0.9.9, xmms-1.2.9, qt-3.3,
AbiWord-2.0.5, TerminatorX-3.81
* more devices supported: usbvision, scpca5xx, acx100 and all other vanilla
upgrades in Linux kernel 2.4.22
* new games: Liquidwar-5.6.1, Wesnoth-0.6.99.2
* video and audio extras
* removed software: Trommler (subst with Hydrogen)
* rewrite of startup files, taschino2 nesting utility
all users are encouraged to upgrade to this new version!
:: THIS IS RASTA SOFTWARE !
If you are wondering where this all comes from and why is it free, and where it
is going: here is the answer!
This software is about Resistance ina babylon world which tries to control and
limit the way we communicate and we share informations and knowledge.
This software is for all those who cannot afford to have the latest expensive
hardware to speak out their words of consciousness and good will.
This software has a full range of application for the production and not only
the fruition of information, it's a full multimedia studio and has nothing to
envy to other proprietary systems, because freedom and share of knowledge are
solid principles for evolution and that's where this software comes from.
This software is free, Jah Rastafari Livity bless your freedom! You should
share this software for the good of yourself and your people, respect others
and let them express, be free and let others be free. You are welcome to
redistribute dyne:bolic in any way you like, to your friends and neighbours, to
anybody who needs.
Live long and prosper in Peace.
But remember there is no Peace without Justice!
The roots of Rasta culture can be found in Resistance to slavery.
This software is one step in the struggle for Redemption and Freedom.
This software stands up in the fight for digital rights!
And Much blessings in Jah luv to all those who still resist. Selah.
:: DOCKING RUNS FAST FROM HARDDISK
To run dyne:bolic from your harddisk you just need about 600MBytes of free
space on one of your partitions, then you put the CD inside while running your
usual installed operating system (even winblows) and then you copy the /dyne
directory inside your partition (at the root of your harddisk, like in C:\).
That's it! now every time you boot from CD it will find the locally stored
system and will use that, ejecting the CD as it is not needed anymore - so
you'll also have a CD reader that you can use!
:: ADVANCED SOUND COMPOSITION AND SYNTHESIS - DYNE:TRAX
Dyne:bolic it's the FIRST GNU/Linux distribution including the state of the art
in terms of GNU/Linux based free software for musicians: using the professional
device support offered by the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture drivers, it
includes the low latency daemon JACK-IT to connect together input and outputs
of various sound applications, in fact offering a multiple audio rack composed
of the great variety of free software available.
Take care: that's where free software will beat proprietary systems!
Interoperabilty between the many and different applications available in the
GNU/Linux world, which instead of competing against each other they cooperate
and work perfectly together to give you the widest range of possibilities ever.
Spotlights on included multimedia software in this release:
* PD in its latest version, complete with jack support and externals (iemlib,
zexy and the video openGL GEM) thanks to the support given by the PD-stammtish
crews in Graz: big up to IOhannes Zmoelnig, Tomas Musil and Michael Pinter for
their help! see http://http://pd.iem.at
* SpiralSynthModular is an object orientated music studio with an emphasis on
live use. You can use it in a fairly straight forward way to make tracks with,
or get very experimental. Audio or control data can be freely passed between
the plugins. Data can also be fed back on itself for chaotic effects (all with
JACK support!) see http://www.pawfal.org/Software/SSM/
* FreqTweak, ZynAddSubFx and JackRack to take the best out of your midi signals
and render them into any possible combination of syntetized sounds.... see
http://jackit.sf.net for more informations on how to use the JACK CONNECTION KIT
Audio on GNU/Linux is a whole GNU world :) explore it from the great wsebsites
and communities on http://www.linux-sound.org Dyne:bolic is also member of the
linuxaudio.org consortium, expect more development and great attention on the
field in the future of this distribution, which is allready employed by a
growing number of musicians around the world.
:: FREE ONLINE RADIO STREAMING
Dyne:bolic was first born as a tool for network radio streaming, as a slick
application for setting up free internet radios. Right now this keeps being a
well supported functionality of dyne:bolic, besides all the rest. There is an
increasing number of radios employing this software for streaming, among the
others radio OndaRossa, radio Lora, radio Muda, radio Cybernet, radio Patapoe
... I'll do my best to keep it a steady and useful tool for that purpose! of
course any comment and contribution, bugreport and more generally a
collaborative and friendly approach to dyne:bolic features and bugs is very
welcome.
For more informations about the audio streaming software included
inside dyne:bolic see __ _ _ http://muse.dyne.org
:: REALTIME VIDEO MANIPULATION - FREEJ
During the last period also FreeJ development made a leap forward towards
usability, with a new GTK+-2 interface which you can see now in dyne:bolic,
that lets you easily load movies, text and png images. This development was
supported by the Netherlands Instituut vor Mediakunst / Montevideo Time Based
Arts - where i'm currently hosted as an artist in residence. Also the
involvement of Silvano "kysucix" Galliani and Christoff "mr.goil" Rudorff in
the development has been a significative contribution - thanks to them you can
be sure you'll see even more in future. Last but not least Anne-Marie Skriver
also contributed with testing and good insights to the video functionalities
you find in this version, while she is redacting also a FreeJ tutorial - soon
on your screens!
Please note the presence of XVidCap (desktop movie capture) software in this
dyne:bolic release: now you can easily do movies out of your desktop! record
everything you see in mpeg4 and other video formats. You are very welcome to
contribute short movies as dyne:bolic demos and tutorials as well! the whole
user community will surely benefit from that.
for more informations about FreeJ see __ _ _ http://freej.dyne.org
:: WHO MADE ALL THIS POSSIBLE ?
This CD includes the work of several hundreds of people all around the world
developing free software and GNU/Linux applications. without the efforts of
this big communities dyne:bolic would have never existed, among the others are
rastasoft.org, dyne.org, gnu.org and the Free Software Foundation, kernel.org,
xfree86.org and more!
I'm jaromil, you can visit my homepage at http://rastasoft.org I'm author and
mantainer of dyne:bolic and the other dyne.org software included in it.
For this release i received significant contributions from the community
forming the dynebolic mailinglist (BIG UP to all of you guys, JAH bless you)
with valuable feedback, bugreports, suggestions and documentation.
Individual contributions came from Martin Guy for his precise and experienced
bug hunting on the previous version, David Santinoli also author of the
included video streaming software Palantir, Grzesiek Sedek for his support in
setting up Open Mash mbone tools, Andraz Tori for his experience and his
speedups to Cinelerra, Andrea Mayr for her precious intuitions.
Special thanks also to my Mother and my Father helping me to manufacture by
hand dyne:bolic cds which we'll soon make available for online order to anybody
wanting to give us some little money for living.
My development activity for dyne:bolic 1.2 codename "DYNE:TRAX" has been
financially supported by the KUNST bundeskanzleramt of Austria thanks to an
artist grant i received (nov 2003 / apr 2004). Important support was also
contributed by ESC.mur.at (Graz), PUBLIC Voice Lab (Vienna); thanks also go to
medien.KUNSTLABOR (Graz) for the residence and facilities offered as well to
the Netherlands Instituut vor Mediakunst/Montevideo Time Based Arts (Amsterdam)
where i'm currently artist in residence, leading my research in video streaming
and realtime manipulation.
Also special thanks to the following hacker communities:
Freaknet Medialab in Catania - http://freaknet.org Metro Olografix in Pescara -
http://olografix.org ECN/Isole nella Rete - http://www.ecn.org For their moral
support, their political activity and solidarity.
Greets and best wishes to the squats XM24 (Bologna) and Ashyl (Zurich) for
their ospitality, to the Platoniq.net and the Hackitectura crews, to Armin
Medosh, Reni & Jogi, Alex "Acme" D'Elia, Rastislav, Simone & Lella, Katha &
Jakob & Hannah & Lilo & Paula and.. sorry if i'm not mentioning everybody here,
all the kind people that hosted me and helped me to find my way in this babylon
world, but i think much about you even if you see me most of the time rushing
with my fingers in front of the computer screen.
Last but not least, i'd like to send a special salute to Kgabo Sepuru another
Rasta Coder from south Africa: his blessing gave me much of the strenght and
good will needed to finish this new release. Jah bless Iya disa way. Jah shewn
Iya dis creation fe coding en him luv using gnu/linux and contributing fe
GPL'ed software and all dem opensource. I luv to create as HIM Jah blessed deh
earth, to witness HIM trot this way, conquering de ways of Babylon, Jah
guidance and blessings Iya feel. Selah.
:: CONTRIBUTE TO DYNE:BOLIC !
IF dyne:bolic can be useful for you, you can also be useful to dyne:bolic!
consider the possibility to get involved with development, contribute artwork
and ideas, help with debugging and documenting and anything else can come to
you in mind.
* >>>> NEW BUG REPORT ONLINE INTERFACE: http://bugs.dyne.org
* >>>> JOIN OUR MAILINGLIST: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* >>>> CONTRIBUTE DOCUMENTATION: http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic (wiki)
Furthermore, please consider that the dyne:bolic project is an indypendent
effort relying on support from non-profit, grant-making and business
organizations willing to sustain development of free and opensource software
like this.
Dyne:bolic relies on support from individuals like you to preserve, protect and
promote the freedom it gives to its users.
If you find dyne:bolic useful, please make a donation today.
If you have a job (the author of dyne:bolic doesn't!), please encourage your
company to become a patron of the dyne:bolic project.
If you redistribute it, please give us some shares on sells: you'll be happy to
see the new versions coming out.
If you work for a grant-making, cultural or non-governmental organization,
please consider the use you can make of dyne:bolic and the help you can give to
free and open source software development by supporting it.
We hope you understand the importance of all this to keep ongoing our
ecosystem of generosity, after all not much is needed to make it
exist and even a small contribution thru paypal is good - just
imagine that if all users give just 5$ to the author he could be
surviving one year developing full time!
if you want to be one just click the DONATE button on dynebolic.org
Thanks! a thousand flowers will blossom!
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jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org
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