dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution working directly from the CD without the need to install or change anything on harddisk. It can recognize most of your hardware devices and offers a vast range of softwares for sound and video production, streaming, 3d modeling, peer to peer and filesharing, deejaying and veejaying, games, a world navigator with detailed maps and factbooks and much more ;)
Surf, stream, record, edit, encode and broadcast both sound and video, all just in one CD you have simply to boot.
dyne:bolic it is made by and shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives 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 informations.
This manual will go thru all the tasks and possibilities offered by dyne:bolic, listing the distributed applications and their functions.
You can get in contact with the community of users and developers thru the discussion mailinglist <dynebolic@dyne.org> which you can subscribe easily from the homepage dynebolic.org or peeking into the irc.freenode.net #dynebolic chat channel.
In this manual I will give you an overview of the possibilities offered by the dyne:bolic operating system, introducing you to the various software included and their functionalities. Far from being complete in exploring the possibilities of each single software, you'll get introduced and find basic directions for every specific task.
When in need of more information, expecially on how to operate a particular software, you should consult the included man pages [1] and the specific application's homepage. Also consider to subscribe the user mailinglist of a specific software you are using: there you can discover more about its development and realize if any bugs that you encounter have been allready addressed by developers. Always remember that the value of such communities is one of the strongest resources of free software, as the Rastaman says: One Love, One People, be United!
| [1] | The manpage is the name of the manual page describing usage of the program, you can use it with the man command from an XTERM inside dyne:bolic : [d:b] ~ # man hasciicam [Enter]it will show an higly informative text about the usage of the program; the manpage name usually matches the name of the program executable itself. |