re all,

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 03:56:45PM -0400, Timothy Capelle wrote:
> It's in the works and I'm sure no one can put a real time frame on
> it. I found some useful info here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/puredyne@goto10.org/msg01346.html
>
> Basically the software is outdated because it works and is stable.
> Also, updates often drastically change softwares making them feel
> less solid. d:b is also meant for older hardware which is
> ever-increasingly losing support from new softwares. The old
> hardware runs so much better with the software that was built in the
> time period that those hardwares were popular.
>
> If you are running newer hardware jaromil recommends pure:dyne,
> which is now based on ubuntu. Alot of the software is there in newer
> forms with the additions of other great ones like fluxus.

yep! in addition to the good briefing Tim gave us, for the very
curious, here is a sneak on some recent experiments we are doing on
top of pure:dyne ftp://ftp.dyne.org/dynebolic/ad-hoc/SHAREIT.eu

this is still alpha and not even meant for public, however the
customisation comprises mostly a documentation update, more
applications and a start at new development tools (see git)

there is a revamp in development mostly because of a donation we
received from these people http://www.peopleshareit.eu which let us
pay Asbesto and Fruity for some involvement.

we are gathering more donations to reach an amount of money that will
let some of us survive while doing this, see
http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13590 there are all donations received in
the past 4 years (thanks!!!) and more to come hopefully. this because
we are bound to work for others until we reach to support our very
modest lifestiles. so one way is get involved in development, another
is to donate more money and ask more institutions or companies to do
so.

in the past development period we also studied ways to update the
dyne:II series and found still many problems... lack of
back-compatibility of squashfs mentioned before and need to rewrite
the graphical detection system on top of the new xorg, if anyone
hacker like to have a look and help just shout.

i guess we'll concentrate on the making of a new dyne:III next year,
if some money comes in, we have good plans.. to be detailed soon :) so
far i've been so busy on freej and other video software that
dyne:bolic had to wait them to be ready. freej 1.0 is out in short now
and its deployement inside d:b will be providing lots of video
streaming features you'll love :)



ciao


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