Our mailinglist features new releases, roadmaps and debates in multiple languages.

You’ll find a friendly environment, good humour and cyberfreaks hanging around :^)

The mailinglists we are hosting are open, they are published on the web and can be searched in public available archives.

Posting to them is limited to subscribers and subscription is free.

Your email details will be never disclosed: neither in the public mail archives, neither will be sold to anyone.
This service is provided “as is”, in the hope it will be useful but without any other warranty. Anyone posting is the sole responsible for any information shared.

Please do not send bugreports on the mailinglist, use instead our bugtracker which helps tracking down the reports and keeping them in order.

Created back in 2003 from a community contributed page already present on Info Anarchy (which a few people know today, was the ancestor of wikipedia…)

It contains useful links, comparisons to other distributions and can benefit from updates.

Whatever you write, please keep objective and neutral! we do not need to advertise dyne:bolic…. after all, it’s free ;^)

Anyone can contribute to a manual – to fix a spelling mistake, to add a more detailed explanation, to write a new chapter, or to start a whole new manual on a topic.

You can read and use the manuals in a number of different ways. They are available online in separately indexed chapters, and you can use the website as a reference base in this way. You can also view, download, or print each manual as a PDF file. It is also possible to ‘remix’ manuals to create a version that only includes specific aspects of a particular manual, or that combines chapters from two or more manuals in a single document. These can be downloaded and printed, added to websites, and used for any purpose.

You are free to study, modify, redistribute and even sell this operating system, as long you grant the same freedom to others.

As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software companies or governments who might seek to restrict and monitor us.

The free software movement is one of the most successful social movements to emerge in the past 25 years, driven by a worldwide community of ethical programmers dedicated to the cause of freedom and sharing. But the ultimate success of the free software movement depends upon teaching our friends, neighbors and work colleagues about the danger of not having software freedom, about the danger of a society losing control over its computing.

A big difference between dyne:bolic and other popular operating systems around is that we adopt only 100% free and open source software

The result is that we can provide support for less hardware cards (video, network, wireless and such): just those working transparently, following a well documented protocol and running free and open source drivers that make it clear to everyone what the device is doing. It is frustrating on the short term to have such a limited hardware support, but we think is worth on the long term because it gives everyone the freedom to study, adapt and modify software and hardware and to clearly know what is happening inside our machines.

Why freedom is better on the long term?

To explain why this is important, let us propose you an example in a different context, that of food production: many farmers in the World have been told by the global mega-corporations that by buying and using their proprietary chemicals and seeds their farms would be more productive. The result of this corporate fraud is that farmers become dependent from foreign and proprietary chemicals and seeds: they are often genetically modified so that plants won’t produce more seeds, plus they are protected by patents so that farmers themselves cannot study, adapt and redistribute the technology they are using. It even gets worst, since these proprietary and globalised products cannot be appropriate to the contexts they are used: not even the promise of productivity is maintained and the soil gets poisoned by the ignorance and inability of the mega-corporations that will never be able to supply very different needs around the world.

Now, back to your computer :^) think of how important is the technology you use to build your social interaction online, your digital productions and audio/video creations. As the importance of this technology grows in your life, so it grows the power of the mega-corporations which are acting unethically by locking you out of your own device, denying your freedom to study, modify, adapt and redistribute all what you use. On the long term you will find yourself depending from these technologies and being limited by them, you will not be able to evolve and use your knowledge and skills at their full potential. You’ll be a mental slave trained to say yes to license agreements progressively corroding your rights and interacting with prefabricated interfaces which will limit your freedom and squeeze out your time and money while doing that.

That’s why we consciously eliminate support for the hardware that closes you up in such traps. For instance if you are a digital artist, using dyne:bolic or other 100% free operating systems you can be sure that your creations can be preserved in time, without being held hostage of proprietary technologies needed to reproduce them.

Ok! so you think you’re smart, hu? what should I do then?!

Next time you buy technology, think twice and choose wisely! here is a useful initiative you can visit to find out which hardware is well supported by free software:

www.h-node.com

Liberate yourself from mental slavery!

Stop consumerism! optimize your resources!

This operating system is designed to run on Pentium2 processors with 256MB RAM, not even an harddisk is needed.

Unleash the full potential of computers even with a second hand PC.

Optimized to be friendly to the users as well to the environment.

The Roots of Rastafari movement are in resistance to slavery: this software is one step in the struggle for redemption and freedom from proprietary, closed-source and resource intensive software.

Jah Rastafari Livity bless our Freedom!

This is free software, you should 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 remember there is no Peace without Justice. This software is about Resistance ina 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 the production and not only the fruition of information, it’s a full multimedia studio and has nothing to envy to other proprietary systems, because freedom and share of knowledge are solid principles for evolution and that’s where this software comes from.

In the panorama of existing operating systems we see that there is a great number of possibilities to listen: all kinds of “free to download” players for audio and video, but no easy way for everybody to speak out loud and spread their words. 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 for making a voice spread and possible to 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 responsibility 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, Martin Luther King, Steve Biko, Walter Rodney, Malcom X, and all those who still resist to slavery, racism and oppression, who still fight imperialism and seek an alternative to the egemony of capitalism in our World.

Hic Sunt Leones.
And much Blessings in Jah Luv to All Those who still Resist.
Selah.

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 of us face the dangers of being tracked by oppressors opposing our self definition, independent 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 (like FACEBOOK & co.) gather all data into huge information pools that are made available to established economical and cultural regimes.

This free operating system supports strong encryption of your private data with (Linux dm-crypt i586 optimized Rijndael hashed SHA256) using the applications Tomb and cryptkeeper that are providing efficient and user-friendly methods to protect your bookmarks, addressbook, documents and emails by carrying them back with you in a secure way.

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.

For each application that lets you listen there is one that lets you express, without the need to buy or install additional components.

Creativity is important and this is our approach to freedom of expression: make it possible for people to be producers and not just consumers of information.