re all,

seems like the version numbers .4.1 bring good luck to this project, so
here we go with the final stable release of dyne:bolic version 2 :)

this solves the bugs reported recently in the dyne:bolic list plus
completes the range of software available. also the manual was updated,
any corrections to my spaghetti english are appreciated :)

below is the release announcement, enjoy!

                 dyne.org foundation proudly present:

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        :::::::::...::::::: version 2.4.1 :: 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 655 Mbytes

          EASY TO USE - BOOT THE LIVE CD OR COPY A DIRECTORY
      use it besides any other operating system without problems

:: 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 6 years by independent and well
skilled artisans optimizing it to run on computers 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 2.4.1

This release fixes various bugs present in 2.4 including docking
functionality when booting from CD and running from HD. It also
features new software as DVDStyler to craft DVDs, StreamTuner to browse
thousands of internet radios and Bluetooth support. Abiword has been
re-introduced in its latest version, Cinelerra has been updated with
graphical interface enhancements and Firefox has been upgraded to
2.0.0.2-fs. Documentation is also expanded: the new dyne:II manual is
almost complete and ready for print, boot scripts have been cleaned up
and reorganized.

Various extra software modules have been updated and will appear on the
website in the coming days. Modules can be burned alone in a CD to ship
the system + extras on 2 CDs. Upcoming external modules are all built
from source and include: OpenOffice 2.1, Wine Win32 emulator, various
Development tools, Qemu hardware emulator, Java runtime and web plugin,
several Games, Veejay Next Generation, GP2X cross compilation suite and
more...


=== new dyne:II core features:

- - - it is a multiuser system, private data can be encrypted
- - - it includes all compiler and development tools needed to build dyne
- - - you can easily modify the system, pack a new CD and redistribute it
- - - 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 2

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

To upgrade your nest to encrypted the easieast way is
- backup your home data on the harddisk outside the nest
- create a new encrypted nest overwriting the old one
- import manually your data into the new one

=== upgrading from version 1

Upgrade from version 1, or not? here is an overview of reasons:

Pro:
- better usability and stability, support for more devices
- possibility to run from usb and solid state devices
- ability to run in thin-client setups
- cryptographic protection for your privacy
- gathers more software and can be customized easily

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




::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: FOR ACTIVISM IN CRISIS AREAS

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. 
                                                  http://streamtime.org

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: AUTOMATIC CRYPTO AUTONOMISM

The distinction between what is public and what is private is becoming
more and more blurred with the increasing intrusiveness of the media
and advances in electronic technology. While this distinction is always
the outcome of continuous cultural negotiation, it continues to be
critical, for where nothing is private, democracy becomes impossible.
http://www.newschool.edu/centers/socres/privacy/Home.html

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.

We urge you to reflect on the importance of keeping privacy for
personal data. Our present world is full of prevarication and political
imprisonments, war rages in several places and media is mainly used for
propaganda by the powers in charge. Some of us face the dangers of
being tracked by oppressors opposing our self definition, independent
thinking and resistance to omologation.

People have the right to protect their privacy as much as their freedom
to express.

It is important to keep in mind that noone else than *you* can ensure
the privacy of your personal data. Server hosted services and web
integrated technologies gather all data into huge information pools
that are made available to established economical and cultural regimes.

Since version 2.4 dyne:bolic supports strong encryption of your /home
private data with Linux dm-crypt i586 optimized Rijndael hashed SHA256,
to provide an efficient and user-friendly tool to protect your
bookmarks, addressbook, documents and emails by carrying them back with
you, protected with a fairly strong cryptographic algorithm.

A passkey to read your data is stored inside a file, which is also
protected by a password. It is possible to keep everything with you on
a small usb stick, still being sure that the data won't be easily
recovered in case you loose it. You can also give the passkey
protecting your data to a friend, to make the data unaccessible until
you meet again, which can be useful in case of tricky transports.

Some links to raise awareness:

          http://www.metamute.org/en/InfoEnclosure-2.0

    http://www.politechbot.com    http://www.quintessenz.org 

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: FOR THE GNU MEDIA ART
                   _    _
 _ __ _  _ _ _ ___(_)__| |_  _ _ _  ___

| '_ \ || | '_/ -_)_/ _` | || | ' \/ -_)
| .__/\_,_|_| \___(_)__,_|\_, |_||_\___|

|_|                       |__/

The Goto10 collective of artists tailored a unique piece of
craftmanship, gathering together most hard to install bleeding-edge
audio-visual open source software in their customization, free as in
media on http://puredyne.goto10.org




::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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.

                                                http://rastasoft.org

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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

// Jaromil's interview about dyne:bolic, freedom and independence
http://www.packtpub.com/article/Discussing-Dyne:Bolic-and-Freedom-with-Denis-Jaromil-Rojo

  // 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!

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

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 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.




:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: BIG UP \o/

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.

Special thanks for this release go to the Freaknet hackers who made all
this possible, recovering a recent technical desaster and keeping our
server fleet functional. Also thanks to the Montevideo Artlab in
Amsterdam for hosting the development.


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 M., 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,
Jojo, Rino, Marko, Lupone, Kingdom of Piracy, Macchina, Giacomo Verde,
Artificialia, the Italian Hackmeeting, WhatTheHack, Ecoteca, the Chaos
League, MetaMute, Pippin, Jebba, Emillo, Adam...

                                    .... 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

->>>> 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)2001-2007 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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