Dynebolic forum

[jukingeo]

Hello all,

I am interested in the Dynebolic Linux distribution...however, it doesn't seem that they have a support/discussion forum. Is there a general place on-line where people discuss and offer support for this distribution?

I have a few questions about audio devices that work under the distribution.

Thank You,

Geo

[brummer]

hi

they have a aktive mailinglist : http://lists.dyne.org/

http://lists.dyne.org/lurker/list/dynebolic.en.html

hope it helps

[studio32]

there seems to be a sort of (inspiring) connection between dyne and
Netherlands Media Art Institute http://www.nimk.nl/en/index.html

edit: it seems that dyne is more then just software... mmhh interesting I'll check out that mailinglist for a while...

[jukingeo]

there seems to be a sort of (inspiring) connection between dyne and
Netherlands Media Art Institute http://www.nimk.nl/en/index.html

edit: it seems that dyne is more then just software... mmhh interesting I'll check out that mailinglist for a while...

Yes it is. Dynebolic was designed to be an operating system for those with the interest of creating a streaming audio or video "station". It really isn't a DAW operating system as Ubuntu Studio or 64 Studio is. Those two come with way more applications than Dynebolic. However, Dyne does come with most of what is needed for a basic DAW. You have Ardour, RoseGarden, Muse, & Jack, so right there you are set. On the video side you have Cinelerra set to go and in the Linux world you don't get much better than that for video.

You can load more programs on, I am sure of that, but how you do it, I don't know. Dynebolic is neither Debian or Red Hat based. So I don't know what download packages it runs on.

The huge plus is that Dynebolic loads up differently than most distributions. For one, everything fits on a Live CD which you can boot Dyne too. For two, you don't have to muck about with an install to your hard drive. You simply copy the directory over and can set up your machine to boot to it. So this is a very attractive distribution for those that want to try it out, then install it WITHOUT messing around with Grub or their hard drives boot sector.

Overall it seems to be less flexible than either 64Studio or Ubuntu Studio, but for someone that needs good quality audio/video editing all set up to go in one package, it is a good distribution. I have not tried Dynebolic to do housekeeping work (emails, internet surfing, document writing/processing, etc). My main goal is to mainly use Dynebolic as a video editing system and for doing minor audio work on.

Navigating around Dynebolic is quite different from other distributions, but it is manageable and once you get the hang of it, it isn't that bad.

Geo

[Guy]

I use dyne:bolic & am a member of the mailing list, which is active & helpful. It really is a quite unique distro. I got into it when my main PC died - with dyne:bolic I could quite happily make music on an old PIII

Dyne:bolic comes with a low latency kernel & is immediately ready for audio work. It is a live CD that can also be installed to any computer by copying the 'dyne' folder of the CD to a hard drive (a dock in d:b parlance) - the CD picks up the folder & boots from there instead.

You can get more software in the form of modules. Dyne:bolic is capable of remastering itself with new modules & has the tools to compile software & make your own modules, i have successfully done this for software I wanted. You can also install Slackware packages.