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Arabian Linux was a bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. The goal of the project was to build a simple desktop-oriented distribution that can run from a CDROM or hard drive. Arabian Linux was based on Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu.
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| 2024-03-21 |
NEW • Development Release: Dynebolic 4.0.0 Beta |
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Dynebolic was a member of the Debian family which was intended to serve the needs of media activists, artists and creative individuals, a practical tool for multimedia production. The project has been dormant for about ten years, but has become active once more. The project has published a development snapshot (based on Devuan) for the upcoming 4.0.0 release. The new release is a live image only, without the ability to install it on an internal disk and without any package management tools. "Ten years have passed and today we are back with a brand new Dynebolic 4.0 based on Devuan 5 'Daedalus', live-boot and the Linux kernel 6.8 series. We introduce a new user experience organized as different journeys into creativity, that we call workflows. Our desktop adopts KDE 5 Plasma and its Activities to provide pre-sets for five specific workflows: streaming, audio, video, graphics, publishing. Each activity is easily reached from the desktop panel or via keyboard shortcuts and offers everything needed for each workflow, while excluding the noise of other workflows, without compromising on access. If you are working, for example, in the Graphic workflow, nothing is stooping you from starting an app that pertains to, say, the Video workflow. Activities are easily customizable by the user in the system settings." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download: dynebolic-4.0.0-beta.iso (1,516MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2011-08-09 |
NEW • Development Release: dyne:bolic 3.0 Beta 4 |
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Denis "Jaromil" Rojo has announced that a new public beta of dyne:bolic 3.0, a live, multimedia-oriented distribution, is now ready for testing. The biggest change in the new version is the fact that it is no longer built from scratch, but based on Ubuntu (version 9.10) instead. "The time has finally come to look together at what is going to be the dyne:III development cycle for the dyne:bolic operating system, so please, if you have some experience of GNU/Linux desktop systems and some hardware to try it on, take time to look around and comment on these ISO files up for download from some of our kind mirrors. This new major version features a core based on pure:dyne carrot & coriander, cleaned up to be 100% free (no proprietary software, binary blobs, but still there might be something to clean up. One of the technical spotlights under the hood is that we now run on the Linux kernel version 3." Read the rest of the informal release announcement for more information and download links. Get the live DVD image from here: dynebolic-3.0-beta4.iso (1,661MB).
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| 2007-12-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.5.2 |
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Denis "Jaromil" Rojo has announced the availability of dyne:bolic 2.5.2, a multimedia oriented Linux distribution designed primarily for media activists: "2.5.2 'DHORUBA' is out. This is a major bug-fix release for USB detection, encrypted nesting, international keyboard input, firewire video capture and playback. New software includes DarkIce, Snow, OggFwd and dvgrab for minimalistic command-line streaming receipts. Updated software includes Blender, Cinelerra and FreeJ. The image.dyne module is included by default. The User's Manual has been completed with more information. New dyne:II core features: it is a multi-user system, private data can be encrypted; can boot from CD, network and USB stick, perfect for thin clients; it's modular, so you can easily add and combine .dyne modules; it includes all compiler and development tools needed to build dyne:bolic." More details in the release announcement. Download: dyne-2.5.2.iso (683MB, MD5).
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| 2007-11-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.5.1 |
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Denis "Jaromil" Rojo has announced the release of an updated version of dyne:bolic, a live CD with a collection of multimedia software: "Dyne.org foundation proudly present dyne:bolic 2.5.1, code name "Dhoruba", a 100% free multimedia GNU/Linux operating system. What's new in 2.5.1? Support for Java (now GNU GPL) out of the live CD is the special entry of this release, along with bug fixes and snappy support for network booting of thin clients with BOOTP/PXE as documented in our manual. Ekiga has been moved out, but the Iaxcomm and Kiax phone applications (Asterisk native protocol) are pre-configured to work with Blasterisk, the experimental ((i))ndymedia telephone service - just press hash. Upgraded software includes X.Org 7.2 and MPlayer." Read the full release announcement for more information. Download: dyne-2.5.1.iso (688MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2007-09-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.5 |
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Denis "Jaromil" Rojo has announced the release of dyne:bolic 2.5, a multimedia live CD designed for media activists, artists and creative individuals: "After 6 months of development, this release stabilizes and updates the core system, also providing recent versions of most used software and some important new functionality. New features: writable NTFS support (ntfs-3g) now lets you save data and nest also on Windows NT formatted partitions, Firewire audio cards are now supported by Jack (Freebob); nesting capability is made even easier to operate as nests can be mounted without reboot; new software: Ekiga, Guarddog and Wireshark plus all the gtkpython and wxPython libraries; text console usage is enhanced by a fully functional mail setup with Mutt, msmtp, Fetchmail, Procmail, and SpamAssassin; graphical desktop repair button and a mount utility for SSH accounts...." Read the full release notes for more details. Download: dyne-2.5.iso (692MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2007-03-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.4.1 |
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Denis "Jaromil" Rojo has announced the release of an updated version of the dyne:bolic multimedia live CD: "2.4.1 'Dhoruba' is out. This release fixes various bugs present in 2.4, including docking functionality when booting from CD and running from hard disk. It also features new software, such as DVDStyler to craft DVDs, StreamTuner to browse thousands of Internet radio stations and Bluetooth support. AbiWord has been re-introduced in its latest version, Cinelerra has been updated with graphical interface enhancements and Firefox has been upgraded to 2.0.0.2. Documentation is also expanded: the new dyne:II manual is almost complete and ready for print." Read the full release announcement for more details. Download: dyne-2.4.1.iso (655MB, MD5). Update: A bug-fix dyne:bolic 2.4.2 has been released.
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| 2007-02-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.4 |
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A new stable version of dyne:bolic, an independently developed live CD with a collection of open source tools for multimedia production, has been released: "This release improves user-friendliness introducing Xfce-4.4 as the new default desktop, customized for the scheme of interaction that is familiar to dyne:bolic users. Another important new feature is the ability to create an encrypted nest to prevent access to personal data stored in home directories. No complicated notions are required, our user-friendly set-up deals with USB and hard disk storages as usual, in case the nest is encrypted you'll see your home icon upgraded to fortress, then everything that goes in your nest is protected." Read the full release announcement for further information. Download from here: dyne-2.4.iso (642MB, MD5). Also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-11-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.3 |
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Denis "jaromil" Rojo has announced a new stable version of dyne:bolic, an independently developed live CD with a collection of open source tools for multimedia production: "This is dyne:bolic 2.3. Starting from this release dyne:II core runs efficiently on solid state devices, loading its system from a compact-flash or similar controller. Moreover, this release significantly improves stability and performance, running Linux 2.6.18 kernel well optimized for real-time low latency, shipped along with new and updated software. New and updated software include: VNC for remote desktop operation and recording, MPlayer and ffmpeg audio/video codecs, DVD recording tools, Ksubtitle editor, FUSE, and PCMCIA card auto-detection." Please read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download from here: dyne-2.3.iso (638MB, MD5).
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| 2006-10-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.2 |
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A new version of dyne:bolic, a specialist multimedia distribution targeting media activists, artists and creative individuals, is out: "dyne:bolic 2.2 code name 'dhoruba' released. Dhoruba is a complete rebuild and modular rewrite of the whole system, enhanced for full usability and open for developers to join maintenance. Recent versions of audio and video tools provide a fully featured multimedia studio out of the box, ready for being employed at home, in classrooms and in media centers. Updates and fixes in 2.2: dyne:II can now run all the system from USB storage; supports docking and nesting on SATA, SCSI and USB; X.Org has been upgraded to the latest 7.1 release; new VOIP phone applications Iaxcomm and Kiax; updates and fixes to Cinelerra...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a complete list of changes and upgrade notes. Download: dyne-2.2.iso (620MB, MD5).
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| 2006-07-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.1 |
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Jaromil has announced dyne:bolic 2.1, an updated version of the recently released version 2.0 of the distribution targetting media producers and artists: "Version 2.1 is out with an updated kernel, important fixes and new audio applications." Updates and fixes since 2.0 include: "upgrade to kernel 2.6.17; fix to dock and nest on USB storage; support for LVM and raid volumes; network file system tools; new in audio: Seq24, SooperLooper, Rosegarden, Icecast; fixes to MuSE (updated to development version); better VGA detection; miscellaneous fixes to desktop usability." See the release announcement for a more complete list of changes. Download (MD5): dyne-2.1.iso (632MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-06-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 2.0 |
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dyne:bolic 2.0, a Linux-based live CD with a collection of software for multimedia production, audio and video manipulation, sound composition and synthesis, has been released: "The dyne.org foundation proudly presents dyne:bolic version 2.0, code name "dhoruba". The new release comes out after two years of development and it's a complete rebuild and rewrite of the whole system; it brings new possibilities in customizing the running system and makes it modular and very easy to include new software, much more usable and maintainable than before." Read the complete release announcement for more details. Download: dyne-2.0.iso (650MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2006-05-03 |
NEW • Development Release: dyne:bolic 2.0 RC |
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Jaromil has announced the availability of a release candidate for dyne:bolic 2.0, an independently developed live CD designed for media production tasks: "The release candidate of dyne:II is out. In this 2.0 version there is a lot more than 1.0, it will take a while for me to write complete documentation about all the features, but let's go on and see what happens. In particular this release solves all problems with nesting, Unionfs for writable /usr, PCMCIA automatic recognition and... runs on Apple's new Intel based machines (docking and booting from CD with bootcamp). It also includes automatic privoxy + tor anonymous web-browsing setup by just including 'tor' in the 'daemons' boot option. This is a developer's preview, expect the final to be out next days." Find more information in the release announcement. Download: dyneII-2.0-rc.iso (574MB, MD5).
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| 2005-12-05 |
NEW • Development Release: dyne:bolic 2.0 Beta 5 |
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A new beta of the dyne:bolic 2.0 multimedia live CD has been released: "This new release runs on a Linux kernel 2.6.14.3 patched for low latency desktop use, uses the next generation VESA framebuffer driver, includes FreeJ video scripting interpreter and ogg/theora streamer. Beta 5 introduces several improvements to usability and boot scripts, hardware support and optimization, automatic setup for network printers and more, getting very close to the final release with a desktop that runs in less than 64MB ram on any Pentium 1 and successfully achieves realtime audio/video performance on faster system." Find out more in the release announcement. The ISO image can be downloaded from here: dyneII-beta5.iso (425MB, MD5).
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| 2005-11-09 |
NEW • Development Release: dyne:bolic 2.0 Beta 4 |
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The fourth beta of the dyne:bolic 2.0 multimedia live CD is now ready for testing. What's new? "This new release includes a re-engineering of the 'nest' structure which establishes good backward compatibility between versions from now on, so you won't need to update your 'nest' when using a newer version of dyne:bolic. Since this release we have X.Org as a graphical server, which is now out of the core and included as a .dyne module. Another bonus module included is OpenOffice.org 2.0. Various bugfixes have been done and the core software collection now integrates more libraries. For the new beta5 release you can expect usability improvements and more fixes: we are getting close to a final 2.0 release!" This is the full release announcement. Beta testers can download the CD image from here: dyneII-beta4.iso (481MB).
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| 2005-10-18 |
NEW • Development Release: dyne:bolic 2.0 Beta 3 |
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The third beta release of the dyne:bolic 2.0 multimedia distribution has been released: "The new beta-3 release of the new dyne:II is online with new features and several bugfixes: notably there is a revamped storage support now working with all IDE, SATA, SCSI and external USB hard disks, the desktop interface is evolving with more integration with ROX, new GIMP and Thunderbird + Firefox modules are included and nesting is working again. Upgrading from beta2 is simple: just overwrite the dock directory with the new one! Installing dyne:II is as simple as dragging a directory into a hard disk, and installing modules is going to be just as simple: just drag the module into the directory." Read the release announcement and visit the project's development pages to find out more. Download: dyneII-beta3.iso (414MB).
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| 2005-10-05 |
NEW • Development Release: dyne:bolic 2.0 Beta 2 |
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The developers of the dyne:bolic multimedia distribution have released a new beta version of the project's upcoming dyne:bolic 2.0: "dyne:II BETA 2 is online today, with a new shiny desktop featuring Fluxbox + ROX Filer, the state of the art in small and functional. Once docked on hard, disk it boots in less than 10 seconds, now including also an XFce module and lots of improvements. Since this beta2 release, the 2.0 series starts being useful also for end users, you can install new software from .deb .rpm .tgz and via Autopackage easy install." More information can be found in the release announcement and on the project's development pages. Download from here: dyneII-beta2.iso (375MB).
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| 2005-03-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 1.4.1 |
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An updated version of the dyne:bolic live CD is now available: "This release implements important stability fixes concluding the development of the 1.x series of dyne:bolic. Changes: OpenMosix automatic startup and discovery; Mozilla suite 1.7.5 (Firefox and Thunderbird dropped); Mail encrypted with Sylpheed 1.0.3, GpgME and Enigma; virtual keyboard for alternative access devices; nest now remembers xBox PAL/NTSC switch; wider PC laptop hardware support; updated software: Blender 2.36, Ardour 0.9-beta28, GIMP 2.0.6, Xine 1.0; fix to Rezound linkage to libFOX 1.2; various fixes and documentation updates; shiny new splash screen in GTK2." Read more in the release announcement. Download: dynebolic-1.4.1.iso (586MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2005-01-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 1.4 |
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A new version of dyne:bolic, a bootable live CD with advanced multimedia applications, has been released: "This release provides a major upgrade to software included and adds new useful applications, plus fixes some important outstanding bugs. Since the enormous success of the previous release, the suggestions of a growing number of users and the dedication of currently active developers Jaromil and Smilzo lead to this very stable release. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade!" See the release announcement and features list for further details. Download: dynebolic-1.4.iso (609MB); also available via BitTorrent.
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| 2004-04-21 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 1.3 |
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A new dyne:bolic release is out: "Time for juicy spring updates and bugfixes: version 1.3 is out featuring a revamped Ogg/Vorbis streaming system, a fix to the nesting mechanism and important updates to audio and video software. Don't forget to copy the dyne/ directory from the new CD to upgrade your system in case you docked the previous version! Here is the release announcement." Download from here: dynebolic-1.3.iso (630MB) or get it via BitTorrent. Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution with a collection of software for multimedia production, streaming, 3D modelling, photo and peer-to-peer filesharing.
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| 2004-03-25 |
NEW • Review of dyne:bolic 1.2: The Multimedia Linux |
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OSNews has published a review of the recently released dyne:bolic 1.2 multimedia-oriented live CD: "Once I took the time to explorer the menu, I found that dyne:bolic includes a collection of free software programs to allow the user to get some work done. I found familiar programs such as LinNeighborhood to access files on my samba server. I used Gaim to stay in contact with some friends & family, firebird to browse the web, abiword to write this article, XMMS to listen to music, played frozenbubble for my bubble addiction :), used GIMP for screen shots & image editing, and xsg for screen caps of programs that I could not capture using the GIMP." The full story with screenshots.
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| 2004-03-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: dyne:bolic 1.2 |
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The dyne:bolic project has released a new version of the multimedia oriented dyne:bolic live CD. What's new in version 1.2? "Dockable system: dyne:bolic can run from hard disk, simply copy the /dyne directory to your partition. [dyne:trax] sound production suite: native ALSA + JACK low latency rackable sound studio. Audio software included: alsa-patch-bay, cheesetracker, freqtweak, jack-rack, ladcca, qjackctl, Soundtracker, spiralsyntmodular, pd with iemlib, zexy and GEM, Hydrogen. More devices supported: usbvision, scpca5xx, acx100 and all other vanilla upgrades in kernel 2.4.22. New games: Liquidwar, Wesnoth..." The full announcement. Download: dynebolic-1.2.iso (611MB), or get it via BitTorrent.
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| 2003-10-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Dyne:bolic 1.1.1 |
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A new bug fix version of Dyne:bolic has been released: "The new 1.1.1 version is out today, bugfix release: if dyne:bolic wasn't booting on your machine, this will fix the problem! Only AWARD BIOS computers were affected by a bug, if 1.1 allready works for you, there is no need to upgrade. Thanks to all the people helping to track the problem on our mailinglist!" Read the rest of the announcement on the distribution's home page. Download: dynebolic-1.1.1.iso (443MB).
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| 2003-09-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Dyne:bolic 1.0 |
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The Dyne:bolic live CD project has released Dyne:bolic 1.0, code name "MAKROLAB": "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. The MAKROLAB release has some new important features, despite the announced feature freeze of the beta we still have some juicy news: OpenMosix automatic clustering support (also for xbox!); DRI 3d acceleration on Matrox, Intel and other cards; new ISO generator and online updating system; new software: iceage, mjpegtools, most, gvidm, LiVES, e2undel, ntfstools, parted..." See the rest of the announcement. Download: dynebolic-1.0.iso (444MB).
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| 2003-08-15 |
NEW • Development Release: Dyne:bolic 1.0 Beta |
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The Dyne:bolic Live CD project has announced the availability of Dyne:bolic 1.0 beta and issued a call for beta testers: "We are now entering the BETA series of dyne:bolic. All interested users are invited to try out the new beta version and contribute bugreports: it's easy, refer to the BUGREPORT section below. This new version is adding important features and bugfixes! We had many downloads of the stable version so far, now everybody is encouraged to download and try this new version widely expanding the possibilities offered by the dyne:bolic GNU/Linux bootable CD and improving stability and performance over the old stable version. Here is a list of changes for this version..." Read the rest of the announcement here. Download: dynebolic-1.0b-15aug03.iso (441MB).
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| 2003-06-27 |
NEW • Dyne:bolic: A broadcast Studio on a Linux CD |
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NewsForge looks at a pre-release version of Dynebolic 1.0, a live CD distribution with multimedia focus: "The new version adds a few text and still image tools as well. Plus, it includes a few impressive multimedia games to allow you to pass the time when work is over. (Freecraft is on the preliminary list, but given Blizzard's recent cease-and-desist order to that project, I won't hold my breath about it being included in the final release.) All in all, it's an impressive rich multimedia studio on one CD. I can hardly wait to see how the finished edition of V1.0 will run. In a world of generalized Linux distributions for the home and office, Dyne:bolic is a welcome change. It enables almost any PC to become a multimedia studio, and serves as a reminder that Linux can be used as a base for truly innovative solutions." Read the full story here.
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| 2003-05-09 |
NEW • Development Release: Dynebolic 1.0 Alpha 5 |
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Dynebolic 1.0 alpha 5 is released: "Online the new release dyne:bolic 1.0 alpha 5, featuring a new window manager and many enhancements and bugfixes. New applications include cinelerra, rezound, xrmap, ladspa plugins and new games, correct hard disk and PCMCIA detection, automount of floppies and last but not least - it runs on Xbox! Everybody is encouraged to try this development version, we are very near to the final release!" See the announcement on the distribution's home page. Dynebolic is a run-from-CD Linux distribution with a strong multimedia focus. Download: dynebolic-1.0a5-3may03.iso (362MB).
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