Y0 ppl \o/

we got pretty much to a satisfying 2 version right now,
some old features from 1 are missing, some are added...
scroll down for the news in this release, this is just chatting...



... this system is well fine tuned low latency realtime multimedia,
especially thanks to the pure:dyne.
Now this 2.3 core fits properly on solid state devices.
It is something i am really having phun with.
Running the system of a compact-flash (~ pcmcia) with no mechanical
parts can help you recycle laptops, while requiring very little power.
I am hacking some old IBM models achieving from 4 to 8 hours of
autonomy, no noise and no bad vibes for your laps :)

here it follows the press announcement. it is long, so if you really
want to read thru it let me suggest some music in the background:
Living Colour or John Lee Hooker. Go Johnny go. :)


annunciazio'! annunciazio'!

                 dyne.org foundation proudly present:

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        8    8 8    8 8' `8 8oooo8    8    8 8    8 8  8 8    ' 
        8    8 8    8 8   8 8.        8    8 8    8 8  8 8    . 
        `YooP' `YooP8 8   8 `Yooo' 88 `YooP' `YooP' 8  8 `YooP' 
        :.....::....8 ..::..:.....:..::.....::.....:..:..:.....:
        :::::::::ooP'.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
        :::::::::...::::::: version 2.3 :: codename DHORUBA ::::

            100% FREE MULTIMEDIA GNU/LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM 

                     FOR THE FREEDOM OF CREATION

        the complete system is free to download and copy, go on

                 ____ _ http://dynebolic.org _ _____
                 ___ __ http://dynebolic.org __ ____
                 __ ___ http://dynebolic.org ___ ___
                 _ ____ http://dynebolic.org ____ __

                     ISO CD image of 638 Mbytes

:: WHAT IS DYNE:BOLIC ?

Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole
operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to
install or change anything on the hard disk.

If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the
/dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest installation ever! Your
older system is untouched and comes back booting without CD.

Dyne:bolic is user-friendly: recognizes your hardware devices (sound,
video, firewire, modem, network and USB) and offers a vast range of
software for multimedia production: audio and video manipulation, sound
composition and synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer2peer
filesharing, web browsing, veejaying, desktop publishing, word
processing, cd burning, email, encryption, anonymity tools and more.

All software is free and there is no market operation behind
dyne:bolic, just a communal effort to widen access to modern technology
and let people be Free to Create.

Dyne:bolic is being developed since more than 5 years and optimized to
run also on older machines commonly found in Africa America Asia Europe
and Oceania. It includes code from hundreds of programmers all around
the world, with a lively community of artists, teachers and developers
who use, distribute and adapt this platform according to their needs
and desires.

This operating system is a grassroot effort to share independent
knowledge, it keeps away from commercial speculations and capitalist
corporations, because CREATIONS WANT TO BE FREE.

::  _   _ _______        ______
:: | \ | | ____\ \      / / ___|
:: |  \| |  _|  \ \ /\ / /\___ \
:: | |\  | |___  \ V  V /  ___) |
:: |_| \_|_____|  \_/\_/  |____/

=== WHAT'S NEW in 2.3

Starting from this release dyne:II core runs efficiently on solid state
devices, loading its system from a compact-flash or similar controller.
It has been tested on some embedded setups with extremely good results
in terms of speed and power saving. Moreover, this release
significantly improves stability and performance, running on a brand
new 2.6.18 kernel optimized for low latency realtime. New and updated
software include: VNC for remote desktop operation and recording,
MPlayer and ffmpeg audio/video codecs, DVD recording tools, Ksubtitle
editor, FUSE and pcmcia card autodetection.

Special thanks go to Antonios (pure:dyne) for the shamanism needed to
achieve realtime priority and De BierKoning for the helpful input.
Big up to Con Kolivas for his sleek kernel patches, Phillip Lougher for
SquashFS, the Stony Brook University for UnionFS.

=== ROLL THE GEEK DRUMS - tell Slashdot about this release
                            http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
 dyne:II development reached a sufficiently advanced stage of
 development to be reviewed by the geek community worldwide.

=== new dyne:II core features:

- - it is a multiuser system, user interaction can be secured
- - it includes all compiler and development tools needed to build dyne
- - you can write modifications in the /usr system and save them
- - it has advanced thin client functionality, booting from usb and net
- - it's modular, so you can easily add and combine different software
- - it's slick and snappy like the preceeding dyne:bolic, even better ;)

=== upgrading from version 1

To upgrade from version 1 to 2 just replace the dyne/ directory with
the new one, or run the CD and answer yes when prompted.

Before upgrading you have to manually backup the personal contents of
your old nest and import them to a new one.

Please note that:
- - version 2 is not running on XBOX game consoles
- - version 2 does not include the OpenMosix clustering system

=== dyne:II development history

The dyne:II core has been compiled from scratch by Jaromil and Smilzo
in 2005. During 2006 Jaromil completed a full rewrite of startup,
nesting, docking, configuration and sdk scripts, aided by the
experienced testing of Aymeric Antonios and Chun of Goto10.

The new foundation of the dyne:II core opens up the development to more
people, providing a modular packaging system for software collections
and the possibility to customize the liveCD with your favourite
applications. So it is born Pure:dyne, as the first dyne:II
customization focusing on real time audio/video processing with pure
data.

visit the Developers Lounge -> http://dev.dynebolic.org

=== roadmap

We salute and support all development done outside the capitalist
empire, to produce and distribute low power and affordable computers.

We look forward to support chinese dragons and simputers, solid state
workstations and all kind of 100$ laptops. In fact, we are there
already, the next step in this development will be adoption of a
cross-platform build environment to cover all kinds of hardware around.




:: FOR ACTIVISM IN CRISIS AREAS http://streamtime.org

We imagine improvised expressive devices like a CD that turns your PC
into an on line streaming studio. Imagine a mob that creates a traffic
jam. Think of the religious policeman in London, the konfused kollege
kid and the jealous dentist in Baghdad and the jailed blogger blogging
on in Cairo. Building autonomous networks in extreme conditions.

Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and
networks in the fields of media, arts, culture and activism in crisis
areas, like Iraq. Streamtime offers a diffuse environment for
developing do-it-yourself media. We focus on a cultural sense of
finding your own way in the quagmire that is Iraq, and its
representation in the global media. We should not try to change
politics in order to foster cultural change; we should support cultural
manifestation in order to force political change.





:: THIS IS RASTA SOFTWARE

Jah Rastafari Livity bless our Freedom! This is free software, share it
for the good of yourself and your people, respect others and let them
express, be free and let others be free. Live long and prosper in
Peace!

But, no Peace without Justice. This software is about Resistence inna
Babylon world which tries to control more and more the way we
communicate and share information 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 applications for production and not only consumption of
information, it's a full multimedia studio, you don't need to buy
anything to express yourself. Freedom and sharing of knowledge are
solid principles for evolution and that's where this software comes
from.

Inna babylon, money is the main requirement to make a voice possible to
be heard by others. Capitalist and fundamentalist governments all
around the world rule with huge TV monopolies spreading their
propaganda, silencing all criticism.

This is a struggle for Redemption from existing operating systems which
always require new expensive hardware for doing the same as ever: give
us free players but make us pay for producing our own voices. And the
one who protects you rips you off, as the Arabs say.

Dyne:bolic is a tool to produce and publish yourself, freely. There is
nothing to consume here, there is all you need to create.



:: ON THE PRESS

Since the first release of the dyne:II series our efforts received a
lot of attention, version 2.0 and 2.1 have been already redistributed
on several publications worldwide.... online you can read

  // dyne:II reviewed on LinuxJournal 
     http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000096
  // DHORUBA RELEASE - read about it on METAMUTE
http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/Dyne:bolic-2-download-new-exclusive-release
  // and the interview to Dhoruba Bin Wahad of the Black Panthers Party
     http://mediafilter.org/MFF/S36/S36.DBW.html
     MAX respect!

:: BIG UP \o/ to DEVELOPERS & FRIENDS

First of all salutes and great respect to the many developers who have
written software included in dyne:bolic: a long list of names that is
impossible to include here, you'll find information about them inside
the CD and in the documentation of each software.

Dyne:II is being mantained by Jaromil with help and inspirations from:

=== Dyne.org / FreakNet  hackers  http://dyne.org   http://freaknet.org
    Alpt,  Asbesto,  Kysucix,  Xant,  Newmark,  Nightolo,  DinDon,
    Sandman,  Crash,  Godog, Voyager, Pallotron, Fredd, Kobaiashi,
    Mr.Goil, Godog, Nelburg, Acme, Adam, Robert, Cjm, Cerin0

=== Goto10  http://www.goto10.org  http://puredyne.goto10.org
    Aymeric, Marloes, Antonios, Chun

=== Metro Olografix   http://olografix.org
    Neuro, Smilzo, Superattilius, Groucho/K6, SugoDiPesce,
    Blended, Hunicus, Isazi

=== Netherlands Media Art Institute http://www.montevideo.nl/en
    Montevideo / Time Based Arts

=== Radio Ondarossa 87.9FM Roma http://www.ondarossa.info

=== Streamtime crew http://streamtime.org

=== ASCII http://www.scii.nl and the robotic resistance crew

=== SERVUS:AT netz-kultur platform http://www.servus.at

=== the Xiph foundation http://www.xiph.org

=== Indymedia http://www.indymedia.org

=== BlagBlagBlag & Blasterisk http://www.blagblagblag.org/BLASTERISK


And more... Ish, Kapel, Jagadeesh, Lawrence, Arun, Melindo, the FSF
India and the NID Ahmedabad, BEK.no, the Folk Festival in Louga
(Senegal), the squatters of Amsterdam, Neural.it, Stomfi, Paul Davis,
Abortigeno, Menglef, Maikel, Ivana, Gisle, Armin, Lambru, Chmod, Xaver,
Rino, Marko, Lupone, Kingdom of Piracy, Macchina, Giacomo Verde,
Artificialia, the Italian Hackmeeting, WhatTheHack, Ecoteca, the Chaos
League, MetaMute, Oyvind "Pippin" Kolas, Jebba, Emillo, Adam Cottrell..

                                    .... and even more .....

to all the many people sending good vibes, sharing ospitality,
suggestions and helping organizing the things that keep all this alive:

                                         hearful THANKS!

:: contribute TO DYNE:BOLIC

->>>> JOIN OUR MAILINGLIST: http://lists.dyne.org/dynebolic
->>>> CONTRIBUTE DOCUMENTATION: http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic (wiki)
->>>> BUG REPORT ONLINE INTERFACE: http://bugs.dyne.org

Please consider that the dyne:bolic project is an independent effort
relying on occasional 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.
Please show your appreciation with an act of generosity!

If you use it then make a donation -> http://dyne.org/donate.php

In case you are an organization, company or official institution,
consider Dyne.org is a foundation and can provide you with official
papers about donations, plus you can be mentioned and linked on the
upcoming BIG THANKS page.

We struggle to keep this effort independent, therefore the only income
for this project is the community itself. thanks everyone!




:: DISCLAIMER

dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is copyleft (C)2001-2006 by Denis "Jaromil" Rojo

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.

This  program  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT   ANY   WARRANTY;   without   even   the  implied  warranty  of
MERCHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS  FOR  A  PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General      Public      License      for      more      details.      

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with  this  program;  if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675      Mass      Ave,      Cambridge,     MA     02139,     USA.     

Several redistributed binaries are copyrighted by the respective
authors, it is documented in the accompanying manual of the
distribution.

dyne.org is available to provide the source of the included binaries
upon request, all the included software can be redistributed under the
terms of the GNU GPL license and, in some cases, the X/BSD license.

For more informations refer to the web pages on http://dynebolic.org






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