Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a bootable CD software that can be used live, providing the user with the ability to run the operating system directly from the CD without installation.
If you're looking for a user-friendly operating system that offers a vast range of free software applications for multimedia production, audio and video manipulation, sound composition and synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer-to-peer file sharing, web browsing, desktop publishing, word processing, CD burning, email, encryption, remote conferencing, funky games, a world atlas navigator, and even more, then Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux might be right for you.
Dyne:bolic is a live bootable CD that allows you to use the entire operating system straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on your hard disk. If you like the software and want to have it on your hard disk, you can simply copy the /dyne directory onto your computer: the simplest installation ever!
Dyne:bolic recognizes your hardware devices including sound, video, firewire, and USB, and is designed to work well on old PC's with Pentium 1, 64 Mb RAM or even XBOX game consoles. It offers advanced features such as a complete environment with the most advanced multimedia applications available on GNU/Linux, automatic clustering joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network, and support to save and encrypt personal data and settings on a USB key.
Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to promote free speech as a tool for production and not only the fruition of digital and analog information. Additionally, there is no company nor organization behind Dyne:bolic, it's a grass-root effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing information and knowledge.
This release offers OpenMosix automatical startup and discovery, Mozilla suite 1.7.5 (Firefox and Thunderbird dropped), Mail encrypted with Sylpheed 1.0.3, GpgME and Enigma and Virtual keyboard for alternative access devices. Furthermore, it remembers Xbox PAL/NTSC switch and offers wider PC laptop hardware support. The updated software includes Blender-2.36, Ardour-0.9-beta28, Gimp-2.0.6, Xine-1.0, Fix to Rezound linkage to libFOX 1.2, Various fixes and documentation updates and a shiny new splash screen in gtk2.
Overall, Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux offers a great set of features and tools for anyone in multimedia production or looking for an alternative to traditional operating systems. If you're interested, simply boot from the CD and answer YES when prompted to upgrade.
Dyne:bolic is a live bootable CD that allows you to use the entire operating system straight from boot, without the need to install or change anything on your hard disk. If you like the software and want to have it on your hard disk, you can simply copy the /dyne directory onto your computer: the simplest installation ever!
Dyne:bolic recognizes your hardware devices including sound, video, firewire, and USB, and is designed to work well on old PC's with Pentium 1, 64 Mb RAM or even XBOX game consoles. It offers advanced features such as a complete environment with the most advanced multimedia applications available on GNU/Linux, automatic clustering joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network, and support to save and encrypt personal data and settings on a USB key.
Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to promote free speech as a tool for production and not only the fruition of digital and analog information. Additionally, there is no company nor organization behind Dyne:bolic, it's a grass-root effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing information and knowledge.
This release offers OpenMosix automatical startup and discovery, Mozilla suite 1.7.5 (Firefox and Thunderbird dropped), Mail encrypted with Sylpheed 1.0.3, GpgME and Enigma and Virtual keyboard for alternative access devices. Furthermore, it remembers Xbox PAL/NTSC switch and offers wider PC laptop hardware support. The updated software includes Blender-2.36, Ardour-0.9-beta28, Gimp-2.0.6, Xine-1.0, Fix to Rezound linkage to libFOX 1.2, Various fixes and documentation updates and a shiny new splash screen in gtk2.
Overall, Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux offers a great set of features and tools for anyone in multimedia production or looking for an alternative to traditional operating systems. If you're interested, simply boot from the CD and answer YES when prompted to upgrade.
What's New
Version 1.4.1: N/A