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> From: jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org>
> Date: March 19, 2004 10:02:27 AM EST
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> Subject: <nettime> RASTA SOFTWARE - dyne:bolic 1.2 codename "DYNE:TRAX"
> Reply-To: jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org>
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> 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
> ___ _ _ _ http://dynebolic.org _ __ ___ __
> ___ _ _ _ http://dynebolic.org _ __ ___ __
> ___ _ _ _ http://dynebolic.org _ __ ___ __
> ___ _ _ _ http://dynebolic.org _ __ ___ __
> 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:dynebolic-subscribe@dyne.org
> ->>>> 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!
>
>
>
>
>
> - –
> jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org
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