Dyne:II GNU/Linux User`s Guide dynebolic.org Jaromil
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1. http lists dyne org or the irc freenode net dyne chat channel How to use this manual Far from being complete in exploring the possibilities of each single software you ll get introduced and find basic directions on how to use modify and employ dynebolic in various circumstances When in need of in deep information on how to operate a particular software you should consult the included man pages The manpage is the name of the manual page describing usage of the program you can use it with the man command from an XTerminal inside dyne bolic d b man hasciicam Enter 1t will show an higly informative text about the usage of the program the manpage name usually matches the name of the program executable itself Always keep in mind the man command is your friend 1t works in every GNU Linux system providing information about every command and with all the commands that are around there is a lot to discover for example have a look at manuals like sox or convert you ll find out that you can do a lot of things just from the XTerminal commandline At last in case you are using intensively a certain software for your purposes don t miss to consult its own documentation and join the community of users around it there you can discover more about its usage and development Chapter 1 The hacktive media This is Rasta software It s hacktive Getting started Support Credits HIGH PAWA BIG UP of RE anca fre2. Players are provided to playback various video formats as AVI MPEG DIVX and WMV files signals from TV cards or Quicktime RTSP and HTTP live streams from the net At the time being dyne bolic is compatible with most of the video formats around thanks to MPlayer Xine and FFMpeg free software you have chances to view files otherwise unsupported by other proprietary systems Xine is recommended for watching DVDs while Xawtv is a fully featured television viewer Mplayer will be used to playback videofiles whenever you ll doubleclick one in the file manager to close mplayer then you have to press q Record Video recording is supported using a vast number of devices from TV video card and DVD using MEncoder a commandline tool to be used from an XTerminal a bit complicated but very powerful see it s manual An user friendly interface for DV acquisition via firewire is provided by Kino while XawTV supports all other types of video devices and can be good to check if your is recognized as it has the widest support for hardware Edit Inside dyne bolic you ll find Cinelerra which implements a common approach to non linear editing with a nice user interface speed and responsiveness You can be introduced to Cinelerra by the manual available on manual cinelerra org http manual cinelerra org or this online tutorial http www robfisher net video cinelerra1 html Also AviDeMux is a useful tool for quickly cutting video supp
3. bookmark handling and a couple of plugins that can be used to extend its functionalities Then we have Links which is a lightweight alternative to the previous it runs much faster on old computers while still offering most of the crucial functionalities It is remarkable its quality and speed in rendering web pages making it a great tool for presentations In order to edit webpages Nvu is provided for web designers which provides a powerful WYSIWYG environment that is fully integrated with the Firefox Mozilla standards of webpages It is a user friendly tool that you ll find available also for many other platforms and operating systems so it s worth a little effort to learn how to use it then you can have your homepage ready in minutes A powerful spider is also included to crawl and download entire websites WGet which is a commandline tool As usual you can discover how it works by consulting its manual from an XTerminal typing man wget For better privacy and anomymity when browsing but also to weed out often annoying advertisements and popups a proxy is running by default Tor can be configured for use in each browser to make all internet connections completely anonymous and not traceable see the starting web page of the graphical web browsers for details Email and encryption Email is nowadays the most widespread technology used for personal communication on the net Alltough it is often not secured for privacy and it is bei
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5. Discover the dyne bolic system Your desktop environment Dyne bolic doesn t requires to install anything on your harddisks which can be left untouched while the system is used Still depending from your preferred way to operate it can boot from CD USB or harddisk and it can store data in a single file that can be transported across different media The whole operating system fits on a single CD to run it from harddisk you just need to copy the DYNE directory in it see docking while in a diskless thin client setup that can also be mounted via network This makes dyne bolic very easy to be employed and mantained while there is no risk for misconfiguration the system comes as it is providing a slick desktop full of applications ready to use The default desktop manager is Xfce http www xfce org it offers you multiple desktops try ctrl F2 and other numbers and a menu that you can recall by clicking the right mouse button on the background On the upper right corner you have your storage devices which you can access with a click Inside the application menu software is organized by tasks so you can easily find your way to play record edit and stream both audio and video communicate and publish text webpages 3d animations and much more Click on CONFIGURE in your menu to access system configuration facilities and customize your system amp D 5 Q l amp E Running as user root u amp oe AddUser Interface
6. a collection of many more drum kits you can download go to http www hydrogen music org Jamin is the Jack audio mastering interface it can perform professional audio mastering of stereo input streams equalizing signals with an intuitive and advanced interface to shape all frequencies in realtime Jack Rack is a powerful effect rack that can apply chains of audio plugins LADSPA on the sound currently being played by other programs Using Jack you can interface it with all other performance tools and add one of the more than 200 effects available in dyne bolic 17 Chapter 4 Audio production FreeWheeling is a funky application that lets you record and play multiple samples in realtime so that they stay looping and can be overlayed one after the other is a fresh tool to manipulate sum and and create over recorded sounds but requires you to read some instructions before start using it since it s all controlled via keyboard and optionally midi Record and edit This version of dyne bolic comes with up to date software to record and manipulate audio it is generally more stable and feature rich than the previous so yov ll hopefully notice the improvements while using it Ardour is the fully featured multitrack studio that offers the most advanced interface for your music recording studio Combined together with other applications when necessary it also uses Jack it can really solve all your needs for audio mastering and music
7. distribution and switch between formats Furthermore you Il find software for recording veejaying and streaming non linear editing and subtitling However you should consider that most of the video tools running on GNU Linux platform are in development indeed you can help much in testing and reporting the bugs you encounter that s how anyone can help free software to grow better and better as it does Now lets proceed on how to configure an available video device and then browse thru the video software included in dyne bolic following a subdivision in task categories Configure your video devices There are various devices that can be used on PC computers in order to have video input USB webcams and capture cards PCI TV cards Firewire and even parallel port They all have different chipsets and manufacturers and need different Linux device drivers Dyne bolic is capable to automaticly recognize most PCI internal TV cards at boot time WinTV BTTV and now also USB webcams as well Firewire controllers they will all be initialized at boot and can be accessed from the video device dev videoO or subsequent numbers videol video in case you have more than one If your video device is not recognized automatically the dev video doesn t exists then you need to configure it by hand In case of USB webcams a good place to start looking for hints is the linux usb website http www linux usb org Also the Spot s guide about rol
8. from Baghdad and any other crazy place in the world where people like us happens to be living has to live it and can even find a way to survive Permission is granted to copy distribute and or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with the Introductory and Colophon sections being invariant with the Front Cover and Back Cover Texts clearly stating authorship and copyright notices You should have received a copy of the GNU Free Documentation License along with this manual if not write to the Free Software Foundation Inc 59 Temple Place Suite 330 Boston MA 02111 1307 USA dyne bolic GNU Linux is copyright C 2001 2007 Denis Rojo aka Jaromil http rastasoft org Dyne bolic is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 2 of the License or at your option any later version This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE See the GNU General Public License for more details You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program if not write to the Free Software Foundation Inc 59 Temple Place Suite 330 Boston MA 02111 1307 USA Chapter 2
9. production Check the online documentation for this valuable software on Ardour homepage http www ardour org if you are a musician the patience needed to learn it s usage and hotkeys is definitely worth the effort Audacity is a user friendly audio editing program suitable to manipulate your audio files interviews and recordings separating or mixing them applying effects and encoding in various formats It can also be used to record audio straight away via its intuitive interface which can be commonly found also on other operating systems since it is a cross platform free application A perfect choice to start manipulating audio Rezound is a well capable sample editor that lets you manipulate with good precision your music samples record loop and apply effects using an intuitive and complete interface quite responsive also on slower systems TimeMachine is a simple yet very useful tool for recording audio requiring Jack as a sound engine It is simply a big red button when you press it it will start recording starting from 10 seconds ago so that you can record what you find interesting in an audio input just while listening Whenever you press it records what you just listened without the need to rewind the tape Stream MuSE is another rasta soft by dyne org included which lets you stream audio on the internet over various servers Icecast Darwin and Shoutcast in MP3 or OGG format so that listeners will be able to listen to yo
10. Dyne ll GNU Linux User s Guide dynebolic org Jaromil dyne org rastasoft afrolinux Dyne ll GNU Linux User s Guide dynebolic org by Jaromil Copyright O 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Denis Rojo Table of Contents 1 The ESA seasesds cassonesaisdsendacadeossoasdesdoasesebesausovesdanseessessesdseasesdenssaseensins 1 l A AORA SNETT DLI Ee Y RAONO EEEN TENE AE EEEE EETA ENEE AN PEE EET EOE NEEE E EENE EENS 2 This 1s R sta sd A raci n 2 SIT AMTIMNE AA A E EEE EEEE E EE E E T 4 Privacy and freedom of EX pression erenn an ee R ATA E A A A A EA A OTE 4 Ticense and disclaimer estes e e ta A a O Aea E aE rte A rt terre tee 5 2 Discover the dyne bolic System sccscssscscsscssssssssssscssscesessscssscssscsscscsssceseesecesecsecsessessssssscssessscsseesessscsscssssssessessseeseeseeses 6 Your desktop SNVITOMMENL teclea iran 6 Access your data VOlLMES iiii pra ee ee Bates 6 Nest Your home and Setting A Rire 7 Install o harddisk Don bdsvovicecsduvebteeddeseusdessesseetdteedevere 9 Extra software modules srt it 10 Boot from a A A E 11 Keep your data Se iii 12 ESTATE CULOS Mak od 13 NI O E NOA 14 Configure your video devices miii in AI Et AU nm o ds 14 Med Vii A iii 14 Play ori ni eet abs eee tea ate Ae et eee eee 15 Record at che ae te ae dde e eens UR ae e a lll a EE 15 PA o 15 SM ies pol a nd a ll es 15 EIN AN 17 Pl ti PM Ae eto OLAS Recordtand edit ta ata a e e e ano MM a tt 5 Graphical software 6 Tex
11. FLAC SPEEX and even more can be played out or re encoded switching between formats The Xmms player is a practical audio player with a minimal and intuitive playlist manager can play online radio streams and local files and can be skinned or customized with plugins as you like Amarok is a fully featured personal jukebox handling the collection of your audio and downloading automatically printable lables and lyrics of your favourite music Let it explore your collection of audio so that 1t will let you search for keywords memorize your preferences and guess playlists out of your favourite music It makes it a perfect interface for a jukebox station Timidity is a midi synthetizers using GUS patches to render your MIDI files into audio files as well make you listen to MIDI partitures MikMod is a tracker module player file extensions as MOD XM S3M etc which can let you listen to demo scene prods video game music and what s commony called chip tunes Perform This section includes software to produce live music interacting in realtime with the applications that generate sound out of microphone midi keyboard and mouse inputs All this software requires Jack to work properly so that it can be interconnected in a chain of programs like a virtual rack of different applications Hydrogen is a drum machine where you can load sample kits of instruments and compose a partiture for them to play on a specific rythm It s homepage offers
12. Language Mobile A 423 a Network Printer SoundCard Wireless To be introduced to various desktop functionalities you can visit Spot s homepage http spot river styx com viewarticle php id 8 and read the OSNews dyne bolic review http www osnews com story php news_id 6490 Chapter 2 Discover the dyne bolic system Access your data volumes 6294090205920 Running as user root floppy You can easily access your files on connected storage devices harddisks cd floppy usb using the buttons in the upper right corner of your desktop as well your local network shares and remote internet accounts Your partitions are automatically mounted in the mnt directory which you see linked in your home as Volumes You can read and write on all your volumes except for NT filesystems which you can only read Usb storage devices like usb pens smartcards and some digital photo cameras can be opened simply with a double click on the usb symbol But beware that sometimes unusual partition schemes can confuse the autodetection so you can try by hand in a Xterminal issuing manual commands d b mount dev sdXY mnt usb Enter Where you must substitute X with letters a b c and Y with numbers 1 2 3 for example dev sda2 If you have only one cdrom or dvd player on your computer with docking you can have it free for use after booting dyne bolic see following chapter about DOCKING then you can access browse play and
13. adable way which ties you up to the availability of proprietary software See the extensive document http www gnu org philosophy no word attachments html on the topic However dyne bolic is able to read and write all DOC files 20 Chapter 7 Communication software Communication software included in dyne bolic Since their birth UNIX systems have been specially enhanced for network tasks to efficiently handle communication protocols connecting computers across the net and of course the Internet Being a GNU Linux system dyne bolic offers a vast range of possibilities and applications from the simpliest to the most advanced network software As a practical tool for media hacktivism dyne bolic emphasizes on protecting the privacy of the users providing an anonymizing proxy and email encryption tools ready for use The Samba filesharing daemon runs by default on dyne bolic sharing in read only the currently running system on the local network to make it available for network installing If you want to share other directories you ll need to tweak by hand the configuration file in etc samba Surf the web There are three different ways to access the WWW pages on the net using dyne bolic thanks to the variety of web browsers developed for the GNU Linux platform The first and most familiar browser is Firefox which is developed by the Mozilla team in order to have a fully capable tool to access the web Firefox offers an intuitive interface
14. ations Remote interaction and ubiquitous dialogues dematerialized communication and participation on the streets Space in its territorial acoustic and cybernetic dimensions is fragmented and recomposed realtime Hacking codes both moral and digital forming new maps mutant drawings and unstable skins Information overload can be abandoned in favor of consciousness and collaborative practices Memory has a digital diverse horizontal voice Privacy and freedom of expression The distinction between what is public and what is private is becoming more and more blurred with the increasing intrusiveness of the media and advances in electronic technology While this distinction is always the outcome of continuous cultural negotiation it continues to be critical for where nothing is private democracy becomes impossible quote from Privacy Conference Social Research New School University The internet offers plenty of free services on the wave of the Web2 0 fuzz and the community boom while all private informations are hosted on servers owned by global corporations and monopolies We urge you to reflect on the importance of keeping privacy for personal data Our present world is full of prevarication and political imprisonments war rages in several places and media is mainly used for propaganda by the powers in charge Some Chapter 1 The hacktive media of us face the dangers of being tracked by oppressors opposing our self definition independ
15. consume here there is all you need to create Commercial operating systems always give a possibility to listen all kinds of free to download players but always with Chapter 1 The hacktive media restrictions and no easy way for everybody to speak out The way communication is structured follows the hierarchy of powers allready established in babylon s mediascapes and worst than ever money is the main requirement to spread a voice and let it be heard by others Neverthless proprietary software spreads the dependence from business companies thru the populace whenever we share our knowledge on how to use a certain software we make the people in need to buy the tools from merchants in order to express their creativity This is great responsability for anyone of us who teaches somebody how to do something with software the need to buy will be slavery under the merchantile interests of capitalism The roots of Rasta culture can be found in Resistance to slavery This software is not a business This software is free as of speech and is one step in the struggle for Redemption and Freedom This software is dedicated to the memory of Patrice Lumumba Marcus Garvey Marthin Luther King Steve Biko Walter Rodney Malcom X in solidarity with Mumia Abu Jamal and all those who still resist to slavery racism and oppression who still fight imperialism and seek an alternative to the hegemony of capitalism in our World Hic Sunt Leones And Much Ble
16. disk partitions in case you have a directory boot see if inside there is another directory called grub if yes there you found your grub configuration a simple text file called grub conf or menu lst which you have to edit by hand adding a few lines at the bottom in order to add dyne bolic among the boot menu selection title dyne bolic RASTASOFT Afro Linux root hd0 0 ADJUST THIS kernel dyne linux root dev ram0 rw load_ramdisk 1 max_loop 64 vga 791 initrd dyne initrd gz After doing that you 1l need to set the harddisk where you have docked where it says ADJUST THiS change the hd0 0 if necessary hd0 1 for hda2 hd0 2 for hda3 hd1 0 for hdb1 and so on trying wrong values is not dangerous and in case you are confused there is a lot more documentation about this process in the grub manual pages In case you have installed lilo search among your harddisk partitions for the directory etc and then inside for the lilo conf file if found then add the following lines at the end of it image dyne linux root dev ram0 append max_loop 64 initrd dyne initrd gz label dyne read write vga 791 Being sure that the dyne directory is inside the partition you boot which in lilo is configured by the boot dev hd usually at the beginning of the lilo conf file Happy hacking Keep your data safe Dyne bolic is developed with your privacy in mind as mentioned before the NEST can be encrypted to make your pri
17. dyne modules docked directory Then reboot that s it Users can easily keep their modules across different machines always finding back the software they need Modules can also be used thru different dyne versions just update the core dock and then drop in your good old modules Download free and open source dyne modules online from http dynebolic org there are many interesting extensions already pure dyne http puredyne goto10 org Pure Data and other digital art tools Open Office all you need to handle office documents Devel more development tools and there will be the Games modules soon don t worry Developers wanting to create modules for certain software collections can refer to documentation online at dev dynebolic org http dev dynebolic org which includes all necessary informations on how to do that Boot from harddisk With docking we saw that simply moving a directory in the root of a partition can let us boot from CD and run from harddisk This is a very simple and safe way to have a dual boot system Cd in for dyne bolic CD out for anything else Still some people really likes to get rid of the CD so here it is explained how 11 Chapter 2 Discover the dyne bolic system Keep in mind that the following operation is not necessary to run dyne bolic from harddisk 1f you are not familiar with boot sectors and partition geometry you might need the intervention of an expert when anything goes wrong Furthermore i
18. e Dyne See it like a Nomad Distribution attached to no hardware You carry your live cd dvd usb key loaded you boot on it on any machine you do your stuff from a user AND OR developer point of view you create a new live cd you remove all your traces and you leave the camp Just walk around the world with your rewritable CD or usb stick and that s it In the dyne developers lounge http dev dynebolic org you ll find up to date documentation on how to create and publish new modules repack a new CD and more in general to better understand the innards of dyne II After all this is a quite simple and minimalistic operating system the underlying distribution philosophy can be referred to the Slackware one and more in general to the KISS principle all scripted in shell awk and sed from scratch Function libraries along with auxiliary programs are all included in the lib dyne directory where the code is fairly documented As you ll acknowledge from the online documentation the dynesdk is present to facilitate all your dyne related development tasks try dynesdk h for a brief help on functionalities Not specifically related to dyne II development in this new release the GNU C and C Compiler is included along with several scripting language and relative toolkit externals as Python Perl Tcl Tk and Ruby Also 3 different integrated development environments are included for visual programming Glade working with GTK and C Fluid wor
19. ed syntax JavaScript More documentation is available online about FreeJ manuals and a user friendly tutorial http lab dyne org FreejTutorialPiotr_01 can be found online at its homepage on freej dyne org http freej dyne org Other tools included in dyne bolic are useful to be employed in different ways on realtime video EffecTV can apply realtime effects to images one by one realizing distortion mirrors and other possible funny uses Xaos can let you explore the psychedelical word of chaos mathematics and fractals 14 Chapter 3 Video production A remarkable piece of software is Pure Data which together with various extensions realizes a tool to connect various processing units in a visual scripting fashion to create visionary audio machines and interactive video tools Pure Data also called PD is as powerful as complicated to learn it helps the fact that is getting now adopted by various media art schools around the world as a free and open source for students to realize their projects From the wide community of digital artists and creatives using it in all kinds of interactive installations and performances the Goto10 crew joined the development of dyne II to implement the pure dyne software module which provides you everything you need to start using Pure Data right out of the box without installation problems check their website at http puredyne goto10 org to download a copy and add 1t to your dyne bolic system Play
20. edom of creation i ALL THE PEGPLE ON THE WEB Jah Rastafari Livity bless our Freedom This is free software share it for the good of yourself and your people respect others and let them express be free and let others be free Live long and prosper in Peace But no Peace without Justice This software is about Resistance inna babylon world which tries to control more and more the way we communicate and we share informations and knowledge This software is for all those who cannot afford to have the latest expensive hardware to speak out their words of consciousness and good will This software has a full range of applications for production and not only fruition of information it s a full multimedia studio you don t need to buy anything to express your voice Freedom and sharing of knowledge are solid principles for evolution and that s where this software comes from Inna babylon money is the main requirement to make a voice possible to be heard by others Capitalist and fundamentalist governments all around the world rule with huge TV monopolies spreading their propaganda silencing all criticism This is a struggle for Redemption from existing operating systems which always require new expensive hardware for doing the same as ever give us free players but make us pay for producing our own voices And the one who protects you rips you off as the Arabs say Dyne bolic is a tool to produce and publish yourself freely There is nothing to
21. eiserFS Beos BeFS and BSD UFS but not NTFS The nest is just one file created in the dyne directory at the root of your partition C or D in the DOS filesystem called dyne nst To erase a nest simply delete that file Install on harddisk Dock amp D 4 Q gi Running as user root WMState good Dyne bolic solves the problem of istallation in a very simple way there is no installation you simply copy a directory and Chapter 2 Discover the dyne bolic system this is called docking Docking lets you run the system from an harddisk with shorter load time and more speed With a dock you can also boot from floppy or from a multi boot partition Docking consists of copying the dyne directory from the CD to the harddisk You don t need to change anything in your partition just copy a directory into it drag the dyne folder from the CD on the icon of your harddisk that s it It will occupy less than 700 megabytes of space After docking you can boot with the CD inside and it will eject automatically after the first phase of the boot process this is the sign the dock went well Like that even without the need for repartitioning or configuring a double boot you can just switch to dyne bolic using a CD or a floppy but still run 1t from harddisk at full speed like an installed operating system and even better Of course when you want to remove the dock is easy just delete the dyne direct
22. ent thinking and resistance to omologation People have the right to protect their privacy as much as their freedom to express It is important to keep in mind that noone else than you can ensure the privacy of your personal data Server hosted services and web integrated technologies gather all data into huge information pools that are made available to established economical and cultural regimes Since version 2 4 in this free operating system was introduced support for strong encryption of your home private data with Linux dm crypt 1586 optimized Rijndael hashed SHA256 to provide an efficient and user friendly tool to protect your bookmarks addressbook documents and emails by carrying them back with you protected with a fairly strong cryptographic algorithm A passkey to read your data is stored inside a file which is also protected by a password It is possible to keep everything with you on a small usb stick still being sure that the data won t be easily recovered in case you loose it You can also give the passkey protecting your data to a friend to make the data unaccessible until you meet again which can be useful in case of tricky transports You ll find more informations in the following sections about nesting and privacy License and disclaimer The dyne user s manual is copyright c 2003 2007 Denis Rojo aka Jaromil http rastasoft org Thanks for reviewing and inspirations go to the Streamtime crew all the bloggers
23. esn t gives a clear picture it is just monochrome and can t achieve a smooth framerate on movement A documented research on the topic of streaming video with free software is being mantained by Jaromil and is published online http montevideo dyne org as part of his academic activity 16 Chapter 4 Audio production Play record edit and stream your audio This distribution is full with audio software to do all kind of things electronic music sound processing voice effects interviews and more And there is one important thing that makes this system superior to any other commercial solution there is no competition Most of the audio applications in dyne bolic can be connected together input to output in order to form a chain of tools processing the sound this is done thanks to a technologies like JACK and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Instead of keeping separated the tasks of every single application now it is possible to take advantage of the great variety of approaches that a GNU Linux system like dyne bolic has to offer This revolutionary approach will surely pay you back the effort to be introduced to its use a good starting point is the Spot perspective on technology at http spot river styx com viewarticle php id 14 and http spot river styx com viewarticle php id 17 Play This operating systems provides players for many audio formats available around out of the box WAV MIDI MP3 OGG VORBIS MOD XM
24. king with Fltk and C Gambas provided by the external devel module for basic visual programming And don t forget the force of shell scripting as there is also gtkdialog that you can use to quickly realize graphical dialogs and user interaction combining various components 23 Index Audio 17 Amarok 17 Ardour 18 Audacity 18 Formats 17 Free Wheeling 18 Hydrogen 17 Jack Rack 17 Jamin 17 MikMod 17 MuSE 18 Rezound 18 Streaming manual 18 Time Machine 18 Timidity 17 Xmms 17 Image Blender 19 Gimp 19 GQview 19 ImageMagick 19 InkScape 19 Network 21 Email 21 Links 21 Mozilla Firefox 21 NVU Web page editor 21 Samba 21 Thunderbird 21 Tor 21 Wget Web spider 21 Privacy Email 21 Enigmail 21 Gpa 22 Tor anonymity proxy 21 Text 20 AntiWord 20 Lyx Tex 20 Nedit 20 Open Office 20 Scribus 20 Video 14 AviDeMux 15 Cinelerra 15 Device setup 14 EffecTV 14 FFMpeg 15 Free 14 16 HasciiCam 16 Kino 15 Mencoder 15 Mpeg4IP 15 Mplayer 15 Pure Data 14 Streaming 16 Transcode 15 Xaos 14 XawTV 15 Xine 15 afrolinux 3 boot from harddisk 11 cfdisk 12 developers documentation 11 docking 9 filesystem organization 7 grub 12 license copyright 5 lilo 12 manuals 2 mke3fs 12 modules 10 nesting 8 NTES 6 partitioning 12 pure dyne 11 rastasoft 3 streamtime 4 usb pendrive 7 Volumes 6 Xfce
25. ling your camera http spot river styx com viewarticle php id 16 is a good place to visit for more informations on how to proceed If the online documentation says your device is supported by a particular kernel driver you can try to load it using the command modprobe modulename and see if everything went well by looking in the last lines of the messages printed out by the dmesg command Many modules are already present in dyne bolic but some might require to be compiled using the kernel sources which is a more complicated process that can t be explained here you ll need to find more instructions online about how to do it and download the dyne II kernel sources using dyneSDK see the DEVELOPMENT chapter about it VeeJay The VeeJay applications implement a pioneeristical approach to video manipulation in realtime taking advantage of the high computational power offered by personal computers nowadays If you re active in the field of media and visual art dance or scenografy this software can be interesting and sometimes very useful to your research FreeJ 1s also a dyne org rasta software that Jaromil started writing in 2001 collecting video compositing tecniques developed in theatre and interactive installations It is still in development but it s allready usable and offers multiple approaches to realtime video manipulation can be controlled lively and from a remote console VeeJay over Ethernet or scripted in an object orient
26. n case of a mistake you might delete all the data stored on your harddisks and or be left without the possibility to boot back into your old operating system In order to boot from harddisk you need a bootloader Lilo or Grub installed We recommend the use of Grub for its simplicity and flexibility in fact that is the default bootloader dyne bolic will install for you but in case you have Lilo already installed and you don t want to change it then there is also a way to add a dyne bolic entry to it The following instructions will cover various situations you can omit some operations in case your computer is already setted up with them In case you are installing a computer from scratch without anything installed on it yet then you need to partition the harddisk and format it You can do so using the command cfdisk to create or modify your harddisk partitions then mke3fs to format the partitions or other mk commands in case you desire to use a different filesystem than Ext3 Beware that this operation above will erase all the data on the disk Once you have a disc partitioned and formatted you need to install the bootloader To do this use the command grubconfig and follow the steps you are prompted at the end of the process you will be able to boot your computer directly into dyne bolic without the need to use a CD To re configure your bootloader not necessary if you installed one from scratch using dyne bolic go look into your hard
27. n source software community this operating system takes birth as a grassroot effort to spread free software and the spirit of sharing informations It s hacktive Getting started Support License give and get help share with solidarity 3 4 if i Be welcome in our community of An HACKtive and users and developers sharing friendly community mutual support uses and develops DYNE software dyne bolic is an ER operating system creative people join the PEOP mantained with community E rj j E j p gt sharing ideas and artisanal dedication crafty skills and passion ospitality and a please express funky mood your appreciation your a radio online We use dyne bolic by sn e for audio video manipulation skill sharing art recycling and streaming and 5 you are free to use it modify it and keep the beat amp redistribute it GET IT GOING BB with a kind offer The latest version of this document is made available online at the address dynebolic org manual http dynebolic org manual and in printable format at dynebolic org dynebolic manual pdf http dynebolic org dynebolic manual pdf For more informations visit the homepage on dynebolic org http dynebolic org where more online documentation is made available To contribute you can report bugs Chapter 1 The hacktive media http bugs dyne org and get in touch with the community of users and developers joining the the discussion mailinglists
28. n your personal USB stick This way you don t even need a laptop to travel around with your software environment and data just carry a dyne bolic CD and your nested USB stick with you wherever you ll be able to boot it you Il have your home How to create a nest at the boot screen or in your Home click on the Configure button then choose Nest the little icon of a duck You will be prompted to create a nest on your harddisk or USB stick proceed choosing the partition you want and how big you need it good sizes may vary between 250 and 500 megabytes depending from how much you plan to use the system modify it and open it for other users Chapter 2 Discover the dyne bolic system Nest your home and settings on a harddisk partition Select the partition where you want ta create the NEST imnthdl l size 9 66b free 2 1Gb how many MEGABYTES should your nest occupy 146 MATT Protect the nest with encryption to secure your privacy Rijndael AES algorithm Since version 2 4 when creating a nest you ll also see a padlock button press it and your new nest will be secured with encryption you ll be asked to set a password which will be then asked at every boot when you mount the nest Without that password it will be very hard to access your nest so you ll be granted with fairly good security for your personal data If you nest on harddisk the supported partition formats are Dos Fat32 Ext2 R
29. ng easily intercepted by all kind of third parties to enforce governmental control market surveys and spionage If you are concerned about privacy then you probably allready heard about the solution to secure email communication encryption Encryption is a technique based on mathematical formulas it can ensure security in your communication by using two keys a private and a public one you will give the public to your friends while keep the private one to decypher the messages you receive everyone wanting to send you a secure message will need to use your public key to encrypt it and only your private key will be able to decrypt it For more information on its usage and implementation refer to the web pages on http www gnupg org 21 Chapter 7 Communication software Dyne bolic comes equipped with a popular email program Thunderbird which can handle local downloading of mailbox filters folders and multiple accounts It can be integrated with the GnuPG encryption system installing a plugin extension called Enigmail Also included is GPA the GNU Privacy Assistant which will help you in the task of generating your encryption keys and handling the collection of your friends keys into a local keyring 22 Chapter 8 Development tools Extend and customize the dyne liveCD Dyne II comes with an SDK to re master a dyne liveCD including all your modifications and to package additional software collections In fact Dyne II is a Dyne to produc
30. orts even more input formats than Cinelerra and can be used to convert between some formats and do simple editing tasks Consider that video editing tasks are the most demanding so you ll need a relatively fast computer from 2004 2005 in order to achieve decent interactivity and satisfactory results For converting between video formats its included the powerful Transcode tool which is a commandline application that can be scripted to convert large number of files or easily accessed via a graphical interface Stream Streaming video can be easily setted up in three different ways using Mpeg4IP FreeJ or HasciiCam With Mpeg4IP you ll stream in Mpeg4 format and you Il need an online server running Darwin broadcast software the resulting stream can be watched with most video players available today on various platform This method provides good 15 Chapter 3 Video production quality and smooth framerate can record while streaming efficiently uses bandwidth when running on multicast and can stream audio synced with the video It s drawbacks are that it can be hard to find or setup a broadcast server slower machines can t stream neither play it cpu intensive With FreeJ you can combine different video sources apply effects and overlay text put transparent images and even more then all the resulting stream can be live encoded with the free Theora codec and sent to an Icecast2 server online this way anyone will be able to take
31. ory in your harddisk Remember that docking is different from nesting Docking is done to run the system and all application from harddisk instead of CD nesting is to store your home and settings in a single file on harddisk or usb storage More online information about docking is available on the wiki community pages http lab dyne org Docking Extra software modules Dyne II offers the possibility to be expanded using dyne modules collections of applications that can be easily installed and used In fact the basic system already contains some of these modules that can be found in your dock as the dyne modules directory From the menu you can see them clicking thru CONFIGURE gt DYNE gt MODULES 10 Chapter 2 Discover the dyne bolic system c P95920 08D0 Running as user root Name T 55 Owner Group Size audio dyne devel dyne el dyne games dyne gnuchess dyne image dyne A java dyne E kernel src dyne PY Pe Po network dyne r f r f root openoffice org2 1 dyne File Mur RA root gemu dyne Ale 3 rw r f root texlive 2007 dyne File rw f f root text dyne File rwe yr r f root veejay 0 9 25 dyne File MP Pf root video dyne File RR R f root wine dyne File rw r r f root xfce dyne File rw r r f root Additional dyne modules are available online on the dynebolic org homepage in the Modules section Download and activate them just dropping the dyne files into the
32. pen Office you can read and write all DOC files XLS spreadsheets PPT presentations and more Scribus is a desktop publishing program to compose vectorial formats like PDF and Postscript it is useful to paginate text in a professional printable form to produce magazines flyers and most publications that need to mix text and images in pages following customizable schemes Lyx is a document editor whose backend is the powerful Tex environment supporting various character sets and scientific symbols Along Tex is also provided a complete setup of DocBook tools to process SGML files into the many formats supported Nedit is a plain text editor providing syntax highlight for a couple of sourcecode languages it is intuitive and easy to use for the newbies but at the same can offer a powerful environment for programmers At last Antiword is a very handy commandline application to convert with a simple command any doc file into a plain text file keeping the alignement of the lines intact For a quick start try it out d b antiword evil doc gt good txt Enter as usual there are manual pages providing more informations on its usage just type man antiword into a terminal Notes 1 You shouldn t use the DOC format for many reasons it exposes all your previous changes in your documents which can often lead to a privacy problem it can vehicle dangerous viruses that affect other proprietary systems and it stores your text in a non re
33. rip compact discs and dvd To have a general overview about the organization of various directories you find in GNU Linux systems read the manual hier type man hier in the Xterminal Chapter 2 Discover the dyne bolic system Nest your home and settings You ve got a home with cynebolic With a NEST you have the possibility to save your personal data and settings on HARDDISK or USB storage devices to find them back the next time you run dyne bolic You don t need to change partitions you just create a new file dynebolnst of the size you choose nest an Nest an HARDDISK USB KEY By default your home etc and var directories reside in RAM memory every file and configuration you save will not be there again at the next boot To save your home and settings permanently you need to create a NEST it is just a file called dyne nst that can be placed on a harddisk or usb storage device and it loaded at every boot You just need to create your nest once dyne bolic looks for it at every startup and if it is present starts using it automatically The nesting function is very practical to keep all the modifications you make to the system while using it settings saved files accounts language private data etc and transport or backup them For example in case you nest on your USB stick you can boot with it connected at startup then that nest will be used and all your home and settings will always stay with you i
34. s using it tutorial and examples are available on its website as well a detailed manual that can be ordered online Blender is one of the best tools in the open source and free software world for multimedia productions of many kinds being adopted in the production of several professional movies Using the clustering capability of dyne bolic you can easily build render farms distributing the load on several computers on the same network see the Spot s tutorial available online on http GQ view is an easy to use image browser which you can also use to build slideshows to interactively show your image galleries ImageMagick is a set of commandline tools starting from the convert terminal command see man convert you can easily script batch operations over multiple files applying format conversion and filters on large quantities of images 19 Chapter 6 Text software Text editing and publishing with dyne bolic Dyne bolic includes software to let you easily write and compose any kind of text document hyper texts that can be published on the internet HTML formatted texts that can be printed RTF PDF Postscript and even the deprecated DOC format In case you need a full blown office suite to satisfy your needs here there is an Open Office 2 0 dyne module available online for download from our website you can place it into your Dock modules directory dyne modules and at next reboot you ll find it in the application menu With O
35. ssfile to a friend still protected by the password you memorized so that neither you nor your friend will be able to access the nest until you meet up again More in general this scheme lets you separate your encrypted data from the passfile still keeping everything sealed by the password you keep in mind and move the data around in different places being sure meanwhile it s not accessed by anyone else So for sure we can say our privacy protection is way above the usual schemes used in most common operating systems which keep your data in clear and physically accessible For the curious hacker Now if you are wondering what s inside to make it work like it does you are very welcome to discover it dynebolic is free software and hackers more familiar with GNU Linux systems will easily recognize the architecture A dyne bolic SDK is available it is the one used in development and there is a brilliant introduction on how to use it on Spot s site http spot river styx com viewarticle php id 18 plus plenty of documentation in the dyne bolic developers lounge http dev dynebolic org along with revision of every single modification done to the system during development phases 13 Chapter 3 Video production Play record edit and stream your video The GNU Linux platform nowadays offers an interesting range of tools for video production editing and manipulation you can play all kind of video files and DVDs but also encode them for
36. ssings in Jah Luv to All Those who still Resist Selah Streamtime Streamtime http www streamtime org is a project of Radio Reedflute in collaboration with Rastasoft developed with artists and activists from Iraq and elsewhere Streamtime is a loose network of media activists dedicated to assist autonomous networking Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and networks in the fields of media arts culture and activism in crisis areas like Iraq We imagine improvised expressive devices like a CD that turns your PC into an on line streaming studio Imagine a mob that creates a traffic jam Think of the religious policeman in London the konfused kollege kid and the jealous dentist in Baghdad and the jailed blogger blogging on in Cairo Building autonomous networks in extreme conditions Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and networks in the fields of media arts culture and activism in crisis areas like Iraq Streamtime offers a diffuse environment for developing do it yourself media We focus on a cultural sense of finding your own way in the quagmire that is Iraq and its representation in the global media We should not try to change politics in order to foster cultural change we should support cultural manifestation in order to force political change Streamtime may take the form of a campaign a work of collaborative art a current of unheard sounds unspeakable words and unseen imagin
37. t O OOO 7 Communication SOftWALE cccsccsccscsssccssececcscsssssscesessecsscesesssssesssssscsseseseeseesscesecssscecssessscssessccsseesessessessesessesscesseesesseseoes 21 SA e ee it ce a ok Bee 21 Email NO ene y puOn esas ici tn oc pe ait ne si teste int 21 8 DevelopMent t0ols cc ccsiscessesevesssssccavesesessnasassonsscaseesscacsscovesnsveseusseavesasconseasessseseve sseveandsassoasesd corset sens ces csesdenscsasesdoasens dus sexedes 23 A TNT 24 iii Chapter 1 The hacktive media dyne bolic GNU Linux is a live bootable distribution working directly from the CD without the need to install or change anything on harddisk It can recognize most of your hardware devices and offers a vast range of softwares for sound and video production streaming 3d modeling peer to peer and filesharing deejaying veejaying and more This operating system focuses on providing multimedia functionalities to surf stream record edit encode and broadcast both sound and video it also overcomes usual installation problems by providing an easy way to run from harddisk without repartitioning but just copying a directory docking thus avoiding any risk of data loss and preserving the integrity of other systems you are already using dyne bolic it is made by and shaped on the needs of media activists artists and creatives to stimulate the production and not only the fruition of digital and analog informations Empowered by GNU Linux and the groovy ope
38. ur voice and music connecting with most available sound players around MuSE can mix up to 6 encoded audio bitstreams from files or network mp3 or ogg plus a souncard input signal the resulting stream can be played locally on the sound card and or encoded at different bitrates recorded to harddisk and or streamed to the net A great introduction to streaming and how to operate muse is available online on http flossmanuals org muse while even more documentation can be found on its website http muse dyne org 18 Chapter 5 Graphical software Image manipulation and 3d modeling The dyne bolic distribution includes some eccellent programs for image composition and 3d modeling Gimp is a well mature application capable to create and edit bitmap images offers a perfect environment for web graphics as well a powerful script engine to automatize its operations and even generate automatically stylish logos Inkscape is a vectorial graphics editor suitable for free hand drawing cartoons and comics and more generally scalable graphics realizing an ideal tool for flyers high resolution prints and quadri chromic prints Blender consists of a powerful environment for 3d modeling and game development it features a well designed interface a ray tracing engine and scriptability of object behaviours in python it can produce rendered scenes as well interactive applications and animations on timelines There is allready a great comunity of artist
39. vate data unaccessible unless your password is provided now we ll proceed to analize in deep all the aspects of this security measure 12 Chapter 2 Discover the dyne bolic system When an encrypted nest is created every file you place in your home directory will be preserved in a scrambled form using a Rijndael SHA256 algorithm such a cypher can be considered very secure maybe some military organizations are able to break it but anyway that would be very expensive in terms of resources employed Dyne bolic encryption mechanism employes a passfile dyne nst gpg which contains the cypher used to protect your data that file holds the password that matched together with your dyne nst file can access all the data you store in your nest So actually that file is very precious for your privacy you should be careful and not copy it around Since the passfile is so delicate it is also protected with a password the one you choose at the beginning which is used to scramble the passfile through a CATS algorithm Keep in mind that this cypher algorithm is weak and eventually in case an intruder takes possession of your gpg passfile crack the protection on your data will be easier Now in practical terms all this encryption scheme means that you can safely move around your dyne nst file alone without the dyne nst gpg passfile there will be no intrusion in the data stored inside even in case you loose it It also means that you can give your pa
40. your stream from the internet and play it back for example using the VideoLan http www videolan org player available for all computer platforms The capability of mixing and effecting the video realtime is a unique feature of FreeJ but the drawback can be the initial difficulty you can encounter in mastering the program which has to be started with particular flags from an XTerminal in order to activate the streaming functionality To find out more about it see the previous section about VeeJaying and check the Streaming with FreeJ http lab dyne org FreejStreaming documentation online As a reference this here are the commandline options to be given d b ffreej s resolution T theora_quality V vorbis_quality i http server port mountpoint ogg p password other options and files Hasciicam is another Rasta software the first one Jaromil ever published 2000 distributed by dyne org It is capable of rendering a video into text having letters in place of colors filling up the image as a greyscale palette With such an encoding the images look way less detailed but pretty cool and the stream uses very low bandwidth Hasciicam can upload video via ftp to a server and can be viewed directly from any web browser also text based so it can work to provide a video stream even using very old computers and adds a special bit to it the ASCII chars As drawbacks here we have that the video is formed of characters nifty but do
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