Since their birth, UNIX systems have been specially enhanced for network tasks, to efficiently handle communication protocols connecting computers across the net and of course the Internet. Being a GNU/Linux system, dyne:bolic offers a vast range of possibilities and applications, from the simpliest to the most advanced network software.
As a practical tool for media hacktivism, dyne:bolic emphasizes on protecting the privacy of the users, providing an anonymizing proxy and email encryption tools ready for use.
The Samba filesharing daemon runs by default on dyne:bolic, sharing in read-only the currently running system on the local network to make it available for network installing. If you want to share other directories you'll need to tweak by hand the configuration file in /etc/samba
There are three different ways to access the WWW pages on the net using dyne:bolic, thanks to the variety of web browsers developed for the GNU/Linux platform.
The first and most familiar browser is Firefox which is developed by the Mozilla team in order to have a fully capable tool to access the web. Firefox offers an intuitive interface, bookmark handling and a couple of plugins that can be used to extend its functionalities.
Then we have Links which is a lightweight alternative to the previous: it runs much faster on old computers while still offering most of the crucial functionalities. It is remarkable its quality and speed in rendering web pages, making it a great tool for presentations.
In order to edit webpages, Nvu is provided for web designers, which provides a powerful WYSIWYG environment that is fully integrated with the Firefox/Mozilla standards of webpages. It is a user-friendly tool that you'll find available also for many other platforms and operating systems, so it's worth a little effort to learn how to use it, then you can have your homepage ready in minutes.
A powerful "spider" is also included to crawl and download entire websites: WGet, which is a commandline tool. As usual you can discover how it works by consulting its manual from an XTerminal, typing man wget.
For better privacy and anomymity when browsing, but also to weed out often annoying advertisements and popups, a proxy can be configured to run by default: Tor can be configured for use in each browser to make all internet connections completely anonymous and not traceable.
To enable this feature have a look at the dyne.cfg in your DOCK and add "tor" in the list of daemons to be started at boot.