Monday, August 5, 2024

Nostalgia-37-Dyne:Bolic

I was asked to make presentation for young University recruits well last my 55 year birthday. Knowing very well everybody would sleep during the presentation I talked about Dynebolic and Denis Roio. Nobody woke up.

Then I did a survey to find that only 34 guys world over were using Linux PC and 32 of them were in USA.

I had the honor of becoming one of the other two outsiders.

That moment I decided to promote Linux and it has grown up to 4% now.

My target before my demise is 10% of the PC users.

dyne:bolic – a live Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and targeted to media activists, artists and creators. It is able to recognize automatically most of devices and peripherals such as: sound, video, TV, network cards, firewire, USB devices, etc.

The live system contains a large set of applications which allow manipulation and broadcast of both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode, and stream.

dyne:bolic is intended to be used as Live CD/DVD and it does not require installation to a hard drive. It is designed to work with old and slow computers, and its kernel is optimized for low latency and for performance.

dyne:bolix 1.x and 2.x was developed independently, and used Window Maker and Xfce desktops. The first version was released in March 2005.
The last version of dyne:bolic 3.0 was based on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, used Linux kernel 3.0, Gnome 2 as its default desktop environment, Debian-Live scripts, and was released in September 2011.

The founder and and maintainer is Denis Roio.

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