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Top Ten Open Source Project 2005

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arclightfire writes "We recently wrote an article for The Independent listing the top ten open source projects. It was hard getting the list down to ten, but we did; here's the top ten - Wikipedia, Firefox, Open Office, Bittorrent, MediaWiki, Xvid, pbb, Outfoxed, dyne:bolic, GIMP, Apache and SourceForge."

The Dyne:Bolic distribution is a live CD designed for creating, broadcasting, and publishing all kinds of audio, video, and graphic content. It includes some of the best free and open source tools with which you can compose music, mix video streams, and create 3-D animations. read more

It has all the right apps for an artist to express his creativity, without the headache of installing and configuring them. By making the distro from scratch, the developers have managed to keep its hardware requirements low.

Readers with older Windows PCs can use a bootable CD like Dyne:bolic to run the Linux version of Pure Data on their machine without affecting their Windows installation, creating audio files in Linux before transferring them into their sequencer.
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The Sound on Sound magazine reviews Pure Data, the visual language for digital signal processing also included in dyne:bolic, and recommends our distribution to audio professionals wanting to experience the power and flexibility of GNU/Linux.

Even if you don't intend to quit your day job and embark on a career as a DJ, Dyne:bolic is worth looking at. The fact that several difficult-to-install applications (Cinelerra and Jahshaka, for example) work out-of-the-box in Dyne:bolic is impressive and reason enough to keep the distro around. read more

I would dearly like to use Cinelerra on a regular basis, but the recommended installation procedure would jeopardize my system's stability, something I am hesitant to do for the sake of one app. Docking Dyne:bolic 1.4.1 on my hard disk, on the other hand, makes it completely painless.

Multimedia producers and artists will have the power to fully customise their own tailored GNU/Linux environment on a bootable CD with the release of Dyne:II by the end of the year. read more

Aimed at multimedia producers, artists, activists, and content creators, the Dyne:bolic multimedia platform on a bootable CD offers a vast range of software for multimedia production, streaming, 3-D modelling, photo editing, Web browsing and publishing, peer-to-peer file sharing, and networking.

closeup on Jaromil, the artisan behind dyne:bolic, a nomad rastaman walking thru India. read more

He is an artist (multi-faceted); free software programmer, a Rastafarian, a social worker, and is a squatter on a vacant plot in Amsterdam.

please note the ERRATA CORRIGE:
RMS is NOT a capitalist!

Bulgarian review of dyne:bolic 1.3

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A complete review of dyne:bolic version 1.3 in Bulgarian language, written by a dyne:bolic user who is also doing great hip-hop music with it.

FULL review of dyne:bolic 1.2
The Multimedia GNU/Linux

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A very detailed review, complete with lots of screenshots, thru the multimedia capabilities of various audio and video applications. This text is very clear and objective, also useful as a tutorial for who wants to get hold of the "fine assorment of applications included" in dyne:bolic.

Rastasoftware per la
creativitat media activista

Indymedia La Plana
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An article in spanish originally published on the number 66 of Mundo Linux which allegates also a copy of the dyne:bolic version 1.2 DYNE:TRAX.
Take a good tour in the operating system from the point of view of activistas de la Peninsula Iberica.

Xbox clusters up at Linux Expo

an article commenting the new dyne:bolic feature presented at the .ORG village in the Linux Expo UK
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On the stand of a multimedia-oriented GNU/Linux distribution called dyne:bolic, operating system author and maintainer Jaromil -- the moniker he prefers to be known by -- was demonstrating a hacked Xbox that can be used to offload processing tasks from a mixed cluster of PCs and Xboxes.

dyne:bolic a broadcast studio
on a GNU/Linux live CD


full review of 0.5.2 (stable) and 1.0 alpha 5 (devel), with a couple of comments following the article
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There are GNU/Linux distributions galore that target office, home, and server systems. But a new GNU/Linux distribution promises to provide a multimedia studio -- complete with the ability to transmit Webcasts worldwide -- without ever installing any software on your hard drive. Sound impossible? Not for a new GNU/Linux distribution called Dyne:bolic .

dyne:bolic CD on your modded xbox!
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Boot a CD and Make Your X-Box Join the Cluster
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jaromil writes "The dyne:bolic bootable CD distribution is almost getting to its final 1.0 release, includes a whole bunch of multimedia applications making it easy to edit and stream audio and video, encrypt mails, share p2p and of course play games, all with a fancy GNUStep desktop. download the 1.0 alpha 5 ISO (~350Mb) and try it on your PC or XBOX!" One more reason to mod an xbox.

GNU/Linux for the populace

The Hindu features an article to help ordinary netizens discover the potential of GNU/Linux
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...one drawback of many of these products is that to install it on your machine you need to be a little tech-savvy, especially if you are a Windows user who wants to keep the existing set-up intact. Therefore, in the absence of necessary skills/resources, many netizens, who are keen to enter the exciting world of GNU/Linux, shy away from it.
There is thus the need for a version of GNU/Linux that can be deployed easily by person without the requisite technical skills -- a GNU/Linux version for the common man. The free software DyneBolic is one such product.

Dyne:bolic - bootovatelna' distribu'cia pre kazde'ho

Slovak review of dyne:bolic, also with screenshots!
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Bootovatelne' live CD distribu'cie sa tesia sirokej oblube dvoch skupi'n uzi'vatelov. V prvom pri'pade su' to uzi'vatelia, ktory' by sa chceli zozna'mit s pracovny'm prostredi'm Linuxu, avsak nemaju' pri'slusne' zrucnosti a vedomosti, aby boli schopni' zabezpecit instala'ciu beziaceho syste'mu na ich pracovnu' stanicu, bez toho, aby "nedopatreni'm" nespo^sobili nefunkcnost uz ins(talovane'ho syste'mu, s ci'm u'zko su'visi' strata da't.

Best of Linux Award to MuSE

DaveCentral awards the MuSE streamer software, also created by jaromil and later included in dyne:bolic.
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That's the way, a huh, a huh, I like it.... Eh hemmm!" I'm sorry, you just caught me working out my next musical mix with my wondrous MuSE . I've been inspired by the Multiple Streaming Engine program. MuSE allows me to express my deep appreciation for music like never before.