dyne:bolic - media-centric Linux distro

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

Hi guys,

I just stumbled across this media-centric linux distro dyne:bolic: http://www.dynebolic.org/

Haven't tested it yet, but they have a torrent up which could fill my bandwidth, I had the image in under an hour.

The included apps seem sufficient for most media-needs and no install is required. I am not aware of the current status of NTFS drivers under Linux, but you could always use Samba to access your storage. (assuming you have a networked setup)

It's i386 only, though.

zynthetix · Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:12 am Post subject:

I found this via the links : http://rastasoft.org/

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

I gave dyne:bolic yesterday a quick spin yesterday and it was quite allright. I had some trouble getting my MIDI working, and my video card could only run in 800x600.

If I understand right, you can configure your whole system the way you want it, and 'spawn' it to a new CD.

-diskonext

mosc · Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 9:05 am Post subject:

Cool, are you on a broadband connection? Do you have enough bandwidth to support relaying a few streams?

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

My upload is around 50kb/s (400kbps) some ascii-video would be possible Wink

-diskonext

jksuperstar · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 7:36 am Post subject:

Fantasatic! I love playing with live CD distros, and I'm trying to get my hands on the newer features that allow you to configure & burn your own live CD.

I'm trying to make a Live CD that doesn't run any X-windows server, just the command line. But, it will run an http server and a VST host, so in essence you can have a very reliable & fast plug-in machine. And having live CD's to play with helps me find a good distro to start from. Maybe it can be the "electro-music distro"? Smile

Or maybe it's one mode that it boots into. we'll see.

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

Hmmm,

that sounds like a good idea jk!

I envision some form of webpage where you can select VSTs and configure routing between them. Great way of incorporating 'lower-class' hardware into your setup!

Let us know how you fare with it.

-diskonext

Dichotomy · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: Dyne:bolic

I can't seem to get Dyne:bolic to work on my laptop. Everything loads, but my touchpad mouse and screen is all screwed up.

I have experienced this with a few Live boot Linux distros.

diskonext · Joined: Aug 26, 2004 Posts: 306 Location: London, UK

Yeah,

some hardware will have problems due to the not-open-sourceness of the drivers involved. Most distro's can or will not put anything not open-source on their CD's. For straight-from-CD distro's this poses a significant problem. Laptop's and their quirky hardware configs can pose a lot more problems.

Try a real install of one of the major distro's (Redhat/SuSE/Mandrake) if you dare. Do this on a seperate hard disk (if possible), or even on a old computer. (Though 386 is the supposed minimum I'd recommend a 586 at least, most distro's won't even install on anything less).

-diskonext

Dichotomy · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject:

I actually installed Mandrake 10.1 recently and even pulled off a custom partition and dual boot.

The last time I tryed to install Linux it was Red Hat 2.0, I was just a kid.

I seem to like Mandrake somewhat, after I got a personal feel to it. I was thinking of tring Debian, but why get rid of something that is causeing no problem?