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This is the essential user's guide to the dyne:bolic GNU/Linux bootable CD distribution. Designed to introduce newbies to approach the powerful tools and applications offered by the distribution, covers task by task the various possibilities offered to work with both audio and video in different ways: playing, recording, editing and streaming. Coverage introduces to the existing documentation for the included software, giving a simple overview of their main features.

Concise and to the point, readers will find this volume packed with informations gathered from not previously available in any other single reference source.

And what about dyne:bolic? it's a GNU/Linux bootable CD distribution containing a wide range of tools like:

Video { Veejay, Play, Record, Edit, Stream }
FreeJ :: set the veejay free!
HasciiCam :: (h)ascii for the masses!
MPlayer :: digital video player
XawTV :: television viewer
MP4Live :: mpeg4 rtsp streamer 
Cinelerra :: non-linear video editing
LiVES :: almost-linear video editing
JahShaka :: video compositing
Kino :: DV firewire recorder
Palantir :: webcam streamer

Audio { DeeJay, Play, Record, Edit, Stream }
Jack-it :: multiple audio system
PD +ext :: pure data signal processing
Jamit :: professional equalizer
TerminatorX :: digital turntables
SoundTracker :: tracker / sequencer
Hydrogen :: drum machine
ZynAddSubFX :: software synthetizer
FreqTweak :: frequency tweaker
XMMS :: hifi audio player
GRip :: audio CD ripper
Audacity :: multitrack audio editor
ReZound :: audio file editor
MuSE :: Multiple Streaming Engine
Icecast :: streaming server

Graphic tools { 2d & 3d image manipulation }
Gimp :: GNU Image Manipulation Program 
Blender :: 3d modeling and rendering tool

Text tools { read, edit and publish texts }
RTF, PDF, DOC word processing with AbiWord,
vectorial publishing with Scribus and yet
more: Ted, Bluefish, NEdit, Antiword

Comunication tools { web, mail and privacy }
surf the web, mail encryption, filesharing
and chat with Firefox, Links, Sylpheed,
GnuPg, Lopster, XChat, GFtp, Vnc, OpenMash,
Kphone, Silc, Ettercap, NMap ...

World atlas navigator and factbook

Games! : have phun ;) with Anatolia, FreeCiv
Freecraft, FrozenBubble, LBreakout, LTris,
Matanza, Nethack, PowerManga, GnuChess,
Wesnoth, XMahjongg, XWellTris, FooBillard,
CSmash, Armagetron and more...

all in dyne:bolic GNU/Linux
free and opensource RASTA SOFTWARE
freely available from http://dynebolic.org