Subject: RASTA SOFTWARE
Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:05:55 +0200 Subject: [dyne:bolic] dyne:bolic 1.0 codename "MAKROLAB" is OUT! = FINAL STABLE RELEASE! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ANNUNCIAZIO'! ANNUNCIAZIO'! (pepperepeee! peppepereppeppeeee!) dyne.org autoproduzioni proudly presents: _ _ _ _ _ ___ __| |_ _ _ __ ___| |__ ___ | (_) ___ / | / _ \ / _` | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \ / _ \| | |/ __| | || | | | | (_| | |_| | | | | __/ |_) | (_) | | | (__ | || |_| | \__,_|\__, |_| |_|\___|_.__/ \___/|_|_|\___| |_(_)___/ |___/ codename MAKROLAB dyne:bolic 1.0 FINAL is OUT NOW for IMMEDIATE RELEASE!!! developed by rastasoft.org and thousands of people around the world, JAH BLESS YOU BROTHERS AND SISTERS, this is RASTA SOFTWARE ! :) FREE DOWNLOAD of the RAW ISO CD IMAGE ___ _ _ _ http://dynebolic.org _ __ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ http://dynebolic.org _ __ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ http://dynebolic.org _ __ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ http://dynebolic.org _ __ ___ __ 444 MBytes of free software operating system (see the download instructions below) :: WHAT IS DYNE:BOLIC ? Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution, an operating system which works directly from the CD without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. It is user-friendly, recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, and USB), and offers a vast range of software for multimedia production, streaming, 3D modeling, photo, peer-to-peer filesharing, Web browsing and publishing, word processing, email, encryption, and networking. It also includes games and a world navigator. It does automatic clustering, joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network, and works on modded XBOX consoles as well. dyne:bolic 1.0 it is shaped on the needs of media activists 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. see a more detailed list of features and possibilities, as well a list of included applitations, in the dyne:bolic user's manual, currently under development: __ _ _ ____ _ ___ http://dynebolic.org/manual-in-development :: CHANGELOG This is the long awaited 1.0 version of dyne:bolic. It now realizes the first vision i had back in 2001 when i started working on it. This is a milestone for the project and for my life, being the first 1.0 release i ever reached in my software developments: so to say, i'm happy now :) The MAKROLAB release has some new important features, despite the announced feature freeze of the beta we still have some juicy news: = 1.0 final "MAKROLAB" - OpenMosix automatic clustering support (also for xbox!) - DRI 3d accelleration on matrox, intel and other cards - new iso generator and online updating system - new softwares: iceage, mjpegtools, most, gvidm, LiVES, e2undel, ntfstools, parted - new games: armagetron - updated software: perl-5.8.0, irssi-0.8.6, XFree86-4.3 cardmgr-3.2.3, sylpheed-0.9.6, vim-6.2, e2fsprofs-1.34 - more supported vga cards and fixes to autodetection - fixes to nesting procedure and keyboard setting - fix to publicvoice.fm login procedure - interactive debug mode at startup - xbox fixes: network, audio, joypad - new extras: live dyne.org concert in makrolab! you can find the complete ChangeLog file including lists of changes for past releases (but not for all of them..) at the address http://quico.dyne.org/~jaromil/dynebolic/ChangeLog if you are interested in development, you'll find project pages of dyne:bolic on http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/dynebolic :: SPOTLIGHTS ON FEATURES Dyne:bolic is a distribution with personality! what does this means? that some choices have been made in its development courses, to distinguish it from other distributions and to avoid a duplicate effort or feature overlap - common thing in the free software world indeed. some guidelines followed in the making of d:b : - you don't install dyne:bolic on your harddisk neither add applications, it just comes as is out of the box, == it works as it comes and that's it - you don't have large quantities of applications to solve a single task, no need to lookup different implementations and learn multiple softwares doing the same thing. == dyne:bolic chooses for you, if you choose dyne:bolic - this distribution focuses on multimedia production and not only fruition, to enhance the horizontal topology which can shape the net nowadays, depending from the softwares available to users. == more than free use, free software is free speech - dyne:bolic is compiled completely from scratch, is not made out of any other distribution, and is currently the creation of a free software artisan following his vision, wich doesn't aims to be a general solution for everything, but just an artwork. == keep it simple, take the best out of that simplicity To verify the above, i hope you'll take your time and give it a try! Furthermore, let's have a look on some hot features implemented in the last 2 years of development: CLUSTERING, NESTING, XBOX, PUBLICVOICE.FM, TOP QUALITY SOFTWARES and the WIDE DEVICE SUPPORT :: CLUSTERING This is the most recent and one of the most appealing feature in dyne:bolic, thanks to the OpenMosix project implementing this linux kernel function, to makrolab.ljudmila.org which gave dyne.org time and space to research on the topic. What it is about? Basically whenever you boot dyne:bolic on a local network, configuring it or having it configured automatically thru DHCP, the system automatically discovers for other dyne:bolic running on it and joins them in a CLUSTER: which means they SHARE their CPU POWER like a "supercomputer" made out of many small computers. This function has been something quite hard to implement until today, being experienced succesfully just in the research domain, but now with dyne:bolic you can have it without even a single click! If you boot more dyne:bolic on your network each of them will take advantage of others, using up their spare cpu cycles in case of inactivity, to accomplish faster to the tasks running on a single machine. our motto: EL CALCULO UNIDO JAMAS SERA' VENCIDO! ;) :: NESTING What in dyne:bolic is called NESTING is a truly revolutionary approach to the way operating systems have been shaped so far, and dyne:bolic is the first (and so far only) distribution really implementing it. The concept is simple: you don't install anymore the whole operating system and applications on your harddisk, but just your data and configuration settings. If you want to upgrade your system you simply have to get a new CD, and now you can even automatically update it from the net. This way you will save considerable amounts of space on your storage devices, while gaining better stability and avoiding any possibility of misconfiguration of the system. Furthermore, the way NESTING is done is very efficient: you just create ONE FILE of the size you want, on the partition you choose (on the harddisk or usb pen), no matters which filesystem you have (works also with windows on your harddisk). The file will be called 'dynebol.nst' and will store all your data, and it can be encrypted with an AES128 algorithm using a 20 chars passphrase! It will be then recognized by dyne:bolic at every boot to let you find back your files and settings. All this is possible with dyne:bolic in a few clicks! check out the 'taschino' graphical installer included in the config tools and create your nest - and if you want to get rid of it it's very simple, just delete the dynebol.nst file in the root directory of the partition where you installed it! The NESTING will keep being a stable solution for data storage in dyne:bolic, tools for managing the nest and customize its attributes are allready under development. This feature has been ideated and implemented by jaromil, currently developing the software tools that render it reality. :: XBOX game console support Dyne:bolic runs on MODDED XBOX consoles, which means XBOX consoles which have been modified to run softwares that are not signed by micro$loth. This features lets you get out a decent computer, perfectly suitable for a surf station or for a CLUSTER node, out of a simple and CHEAP toy as a game console. Considering that the occidental christmas is approaching, with its consumistical waste of stuff, get ready to load a truck with old XBOX models sold at cheap prices, then go and make a cluster supercomputer out of old toys, booting them with your dyne:bolic CD! XBOX support has been made possible thanks to the great work that the linux-xbox.sf.net project has been doing in the past year, plus the development activity of Smilzo, who is now looking forward to tweak more upcoming toys and turn them into a productive dyne:bolic station. :: PUBLICVOICE.FM Thanks to the collaboration of PUBLIC VOICE Lab and the recent support from the Open Source Streaming Alliance, dyne:bolic can offer to its users seamless integration with an online streaming server as publicvoice.fm which aims to be a broadcasting point for free and indypendent online radios. This feature is currently under development, but allready usable in its testing phase. If you are doing online radio and you are looking for a broadcast server, you can consider to join the community around the publicvoice.fm server, shaping itself in a way that can be sustainable for its bandwidth costs and, most important thing, FREE AS OF SPEECH! :: TOP QUALITY SOFTWARES Dyne:bolic includes many softwares, result of the great work being done by the GNU/Linux free software community thru the past 10 years. To mention just a few of them: Mp4Live, lets you stream mpeg4 audio and video on darwin server FreeJ, to perform on video livesets as a freejay MuSE, to mix and stream your voice and sound files live on the net HasciiCam, to have a cool (h)ascii webcam, also on low bandwidth TerminatorX, GDam, SoundTracker and PD, to perform with live audio Kino, Cinelerra and LiVES, to edit and publish video clips Audacity and ReZound, to edit audio and add effects on it Gimp, the GNU image manipulation software to edit your pictures Blender, one of the most powerful 3d modeling and rendering tools AbiWord and Ted, to read edit and save any kind of word file Bluefish, to generate and edit your html webpages Sylpheed and Gpa, to send and receive mails, with full encryption Lopster, which lets you do filesharing over winmx and gnutella Samba, to easily exchange data over shared directories in LANs XChat, linphone and other messaging softwares for fast comunication VNC and RDesktop to remotely access any Win or Unix desktop Lots of network tools, for analysis and poweruser access to the net Xfe, an intuitive local file browser recognizing all file types GCombust, to easily burn data on CDs on machines with a cd-burner XRmap, to easily browse the world geography and the CIA factbook And, last but not least, lots of great games also to be played in multiplayer mode, online with your friends running dyne:bolic! In the user's manual is being collected information on each software distributed in dyne:bolic, including the homepage, where to find the specific software's manual, the author's name and the year in which it was started; so that you can start to move your first steps in this brave GNU world with dyne:bolic, getting in touch with the wider world and communities surrounding it. :: WIDE DEVICE SUPPORT One of the main task in developing dyne:bolic has been the effort to support as much hardware devices being found around, autodetecting them. So far, this support stand to a good and satisfactory point: most computers, especially desktop computers, are supported, while some laptops might have problems - but anyway dyne:bolic was thought especially for people not having a laptop, making them able to carry all their data and operating system in a small usb-key and a CD. Regarding specific devices, we have support for PS2 and USB mouse and keyboards, USB connected storage devices and photo cameras, FIREWIRE video cameras, serial and ADSL modems, TV cards and sound cards, cdrom and burners, webcams and more. The best way to proceed to check the support for your device is to verify if it is included into the 2.4.20 Linux kernel: dyne:bolic includes all of its modules, and more. Also most VGA cards are supported, then dyne:bolic will run in 1024x768 higher resolution (being able to switch to other modes); in particular on Matrox and i810 cards there is also support for 3d acceleration. It might work on other cards too, but i have only those to test at the moment. Of course there are always a few exceptions to this support list and you can help us to make it better with bugreporting :) also consider that as they will come out new devices and dyne:bolic will get older, it might be the case that it will support less configurations. So if you are reading this after one year of its release, consider upgrading to the latest version of dyne:bolic before resigning to your problems! :: AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS dyne:bolic GNU/Linux in its 1.0 version is RASTA SOFTWARE :) by me jaromil http://rastasoft.org i'm also author of the included softwares MuSE, FreeJ and HasciiCam, as well of other scripts and configuration softwares. game console support and help in development has been contributed by Smilzo http://sfrajone.org who is a great hacker and hardware expert old friend of mine, we are born in the same city in south italy :) significative support in development has been also contributed by bomboclat http://autistici.org/loa/bomboclat also author of bolic1 another console based distribution, slick tool for network analysis and last but not least has to be mentioned the contribution of c1cc10 http://autistici.org/loa/c1cc10 another author of bolic1 as well member of the LOA hacklab, source of many useful solutions also the following people contributed, in alphabetical order: Lobo (karma and knowledge), Maox (logo and pix), MiSt (xbox mentor) Newmark (perl alla romana), Nightolo (muse gtk), Rubik (muse ncurses) Tx0 (frozen camel), and evem more with useful advices and testing: Alpt, Grzesiek, Kysucix, Martin, Sandolo, Rageman.... Help with online documentation was given by: Isazi, Quique, Ali Uelke, Thomas Hassan, Ricardo Perry, Marco Herrn, Tommaso Gagliardi, Patrice. i hope i'm being complete here, forgive me if i forgot anyone and notice me to be included in the credits for further releases: mantaining such a documentation is an hard task, believe me. This CD 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, kernel.org, xfree86.org, mozilla.org and even more... You are welcome to join us! the dyne:bolic mailinglist you can reach from dynebolic.org the irc channel #dynebolic on irc.autistici.org :: SOLONG, AND THANKS FOR THE FISH! Thanks to the many people that is supporting us and is contributing to the development with bugreports, ideas, visions, fixes, donations, ospitality, support, food :) special thanks to our sponsors: == SPONSOR TENOVIS (Intl) http://tenovis.com == PARTNER SUPPORT PUBLIC VOICE Lab (Vienna) http://pvl.at SERVUS.at (Linz) http://servus.at == TACTICAL SUPPORT Digimetrica (Pescara) http://www.digimetrica.com European Social Forum http://www.fse-esf.org JuX project (Vienna) http://netbridge.at Ljudmila (Ljubljana) http://www.ljudmila.org Makrolab (Anywhere) http://makrolab.ljudmila.org MALASystem (Milano) http://malasystem.com MAMA institute (Zagreb) http://mi2.hr Montevideo (Amsterdam) http://montevideo.nl Mur.at (Graz) http://mur.at OSSA (Intl) http://streamingalliance.org Stream on the fly (EU) http://streamonthefly.com Xs4All (Amsterdam) http://xs4all.nl == INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT Adam Hyde, Blicero, Fedor Veltman, Marko Peljhan, Markus Panholzer, Massimo di Bernardo, Robert de Geus, Roland Alton-Scheidl, Stefano Chiccarelli, Zeljko Blace Waves and cheers also go to: 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 And all the kind people and users donating some little money or hardware, thru all the world: THANKS! especially for understanding the ecosystem of generosity that keep this whole project existing! :: THATS ALL FOLKS! So what you are doing here, still reading all this documentation, aren't you courious to see what i'm talking about? :) go and boot dyne:bolic on your machine and join our user community mailinglist! we're all waiting for your partecipation and contribution to the development of this tool. And remember that everyone's contribution is very important to keep dyne:bolic alive, so don't exhitate and share your vision and knowledge with us! A THOUSAND FLOWERS WILL BLOSSOM! ciao :) - -- jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org dyne:bolic GNU/Linux liveCD http://dynebolic.org MuSE Streamer v0.8.1 http://muse.dyne.org FreeJ v0.5 - free the veejay! http://freej.org HasciiCam v0.9.1 http://hascii.org FARAH in Palestine http://farah.dyne.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/cLWzWLCC1ltubZcRAvCRAJ9ERL3SvR5EnfmWppiPJAaXDjW+GgCdHX26 sYISCpgFJYo/MVe+RisRl08= =ZkPA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-- [dyne:bolic] mailinglist - http://www.dynebolic.org easy2use GNU/Linux bootable CD distribution including dyne.org software To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- |/\//\///\////\/////\//////\/din?don! |http://dyne.org |http://tubocatodico.dyne.org |http://lab.dyne.org/DindonCurriculum ___________________________________________ http://rekombinant.org http://rekombinant.org/media-activism
