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Featured Download: Puredyne Turns Any Computer into a Multimedia Powerhouse

nick — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:50:18 +0000

LifeHacker’s featured download today is pure:dyne, a LiveCD developed for media artists.

Linux.com | Dyne:Bolic 2.4.2: A live CD multimedia studio

nick — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:49:22 +0000

Linux.com reviews the multimedia monster LiveCD named Dyne:Bolic.

The Dyne:Bolic distribution is a live CD designed for creating, broadcasting, and publishing all kinds of audio, video, and graphic content. It includes some of the best free and open source tools with which you can compose music, mix video streams, and create 3-D animations.

Customizing Dynebolic version 2

nick — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:39:56 +0000

Linux.com has a thorough article on customizing Dynebolic.

Three Sets of Screenshots

nick — Fri, 05 May 2006 17:23:38 +0000

OSDir has new screenshots up of RR64 3.0RC1, dyne:bolic 2.0 RC, and MCNLive Leuven.

GhostWriter: A Linux distro for writers

nick — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:15:33 +0000

Linux.com has a review of a LiveCD made for writers.

GhostWriter is a live CD that provides a small number of tools for writers of short stories, novels, and screenplays. But GhostWriter can be used by someone authoring works of non-fiction as well. It’s easy to use and has a small footprint. In fact, there’s nothing to install — you run GhostWriter off a CD.

Grafpup Linux live CD for graphic designers

nick — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:01:25 +0000

Linux.com reviews Grafpup, and ends up liking this lightweight LiveCD.

What would you get if you were to combine good graphic programs such as the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), Inkscape, and CinePaint with other open source biggies such as Scribus and Nvu? The answer: Grafpup Linux, a live CD heaven for all graphic designers.

AlienDrive Live CD 1 screenshots

nick — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:11:17 +0000

OSDir has screenshots of the AlienDrive LiveCD.

Mediainlinux: Path Forward?

nick — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:33:05 +0000

Slashdot has a little writeup and request for testing from Mediainlinux. Mediainlinux is a LiveCD focused on multimedia developement, and also has a nice Gnome-based Knoppix LiveCD released.

An open Studio to Go

nick — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:04:14 +0000

NewsForge has a review of Studio to Go.

Open source software developer and musician Richard Bown wanted to make Rosegarden, a popular MIDI sequencer for Linux, available to all people, even if they weren’t fortunate enough to be using an open source platform.

Dine in geek heaven with Dyne:bolicII

nick — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:23:45 +0000

Computerworld has an article with a lot of quotes from core Dyne:bolic developer Jaromil about the new features going into Dyne:bolicII. A lot of work is going into the new release, with the latest packages, new scripts, fast customization, and low system requirements.

Jaromil says the main addition to version two, currently in beta, is that it will include all the compiler tools required in order to modify it.