Jah Rastafari Livity bless our Freedom! This is free software, you should 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 remember there is no Peace without Justice. This software is about Resistance ina babylon world which tries to control more and more 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 applications 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.
In the panorama of existing operating systems we see that there is a great number of possibilities to listen: all kinds of "free to download" players for audio and video, but no easy way for everybody to speak out loud and spread their words. The way communication is structured follows the hierarchy of powers allready established in babylon's mediascapes and, worst than ever, money is the main requirement for making a voice spread and possible to be heard by others.
Neverthless, proprietary software spreads the dependence from business companies thru the populace: whenever we share our knowledge on how to use a certain software, we make the people in need to buy the tools from merchants in order to express their creativity. This is great responsability for anyone of us who teaches somebody how to do something with software: the need to buy will be slavery under the merchantile interests of capitalism.
The roots of Rasta culture can be found in Resistance to slavery. This software is not a business. This software is free as of speech and is one step in the struggle for Redemption and Freedom. This software is dedicated to the memory of Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey, Marthin Luther King, Steve Biko, Walter Rodney, Malcom X; with respect to Mumia Abu Jamal and all those who still resist to slavery, racism and oppression, who still fight imperialism and seek an alternative to the egemony of capitalism in our World.
Hic Sunt Leones. And Much Blessings in Jah Luv to All Those who still Resist. Selah.
You should read on this chapter if you are interested to know how this operating system had birth and who contributed to make it real. Here i introduce myself, i'm writing this manual and i'm the mantainer of dyne:bolic, while i'm also the author of three software contained in it: FreeJ, HasciiCam and MuSE. My name is Denis "jaromil" Rojo, i'm a south italian emigrant and Rastaman traveling ina babylon, i code in C/C++ since more than 10 years and have a decent experience of multimedia development under GNU/Linux.
My motivation in doing free software comes from the intention to give people free access to comunication channels and to promote free speech, against any form of censorship, adding my little effort to break cultural and economical monopolies on information and technology.
You are kindly invited to support my activity: you can offer me ospitality, invite me to give presentations, performances (i'm a photogenical audio/visual performer, see what one must do to make a living today!), make a donation thru paypal, pay me to customize my software to fit it to your needs or to help you using it, invite me at dinner, call me to teach in a class, help me to submit a grant, invite me to your theatre company to work on multimedia setups (i've made a fairly good experience in theatre and interactive installations so far), encourage your company or organization to be a patron of the dyne:bolic project.
Enough about me, now i'd like to mention the great support and help given by Federico "Bomboclat" Prando and Francesco "C1cc10" Rana for the development of dyne:bolic. Together with Liw they are the authors of bolic1 which is the first bootable GNU/Linux distribution i ever saw, reduced to fit just in a small cardsized CD and aiming to give slick tools to analyze and tweak networks. The hackmeeting is the place where we met, it is also where they presented bolic1 spawning in me and Lobo the idea of dyne:bolic.
Bomboclat and C1cc10 helped me to compile and configure dyne:bolic, giving suggestions and testing it on hardware. Most important thing has been the great friendship between us which made it very funny to meet and hack together on a common project.
Here i salute and give great respect also to Alexander "Smilzo" Gnoli who hacked dyne:bolic to make it run on XBOX game consoles, with the help of the documentation produced by the xbox-linux project. We spend some time hacking together and sharing visions about dyne:bolic, while he is planning to keep his focus on support for game consoles.
The following people also directly contributed to development: Lobo (karma and knowledge), Sandolo and Rageman (scripts and tricks), Nightolo and Rubik (MuSE interface coders), Maox (logo and graphics), Eni and Newmark (watching horizons). I'm very sorry i can't say more about them, alltough it would be worth, i know them fairly well and they are all great hackers - probably i'll write more story here in some future.
Help with online documentation was given by: Isazi, Quique, Ali Uelke, Thomas Hassan, Ricardo Perry, Marco Herrn, Tommaso Gagliardi, Patrice.
Support for development was given by the following organizazions: TENOVIS (Intl) http://tenovis.com PUBLIC VOICE Lab (Vienna) http://pvl.at MALASystem (Milano) http://malasystem.com SERVUS.at (Linz) http://servus.at OSSA (Intl) http://streamingalliance.org Montevideo (Amsterdam) http://montevideo.nl Stream on the fly (EU project) JuX project (Vienna) http://netbridge.at European Social Forum http://www.fse-esf.org and individu2als: Stefano Chiccarelli, Roland Alton-Scheidl, Adam Hyde, Markus Panholzer, Zeljko Blace and Blicero
And finally we get to the waves and cheers: NeURo, Neural.it, cjm di enemy.org, Luca Lampo per la camicia :) littlejohn, Odo grand visir di mufhd0, kobaiashi di sikurezza.org Tommaso aka m_0, Dolce, chmod, radio Ondarossa, enuzzo, void, Dindon il carbonaro, #mdp and all the hackers at dyne.org.
dyne:bolic GNU/Linux includes the work of 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 gnu.org and the Free Software Foundation, gentoo.org, kernel.org, xfree86.org, mozilla.org ...