Dyne:OS User's Manual

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Latest News

1 december 2007
2.5.2 DHORUBA is out with stability fixes to nesting, international keyboard, firewire video and streaming. The user manual has been completed with more information. This is the final stable release of dyne:II See the release announcement.

22 september 2007
2.5.1 DHORUBA is out with Java support and network booting. Includes improvements and fixes to web browsing, pdf reading, usb mounting and more. See the release announcement.

22 september 2007
2.5 DHORUBA is out sporting NTfs write support, several software upgrades (including Ardour v2 and Ekiga for live conferencing) and an improved nesting mechanism for usb keys.
After 6 months of development this release packs several fixes and capabilities for an effective and user friendly usage, see the full release announcement.

10 march 2007
2.4.2 DHORUBA AUTOMATIC CRYPTO AUTONOMISM is out.
We feature a new default desktop environment based on Xfce-4.4, plus the ability to create an encrypted nest protecting access to personal data stored in it. You can read more on our concerns about privacy, while here is the full release announcement.

11 december 2006
pure:dyne EXTENDED PLAY 2.3.6 is out. This growing community effort maintained by media artists for media artists is a customization of the dyne:II core for realtime audio and video processing. Comes optimized for software such as Jack, SuperCollider, Csound, Fluxus and of course Pure Data with a great collection of externals: PDP, PiDiP, Gem, GridFlow, RRadical, PixelTango ... bittorrent download on metamute public library.

23 november 2006
2.3 DHORUBA SOLID STATE is out. Starting from this release dyne:II core runs efficiently on solid state devices, loading its system from a compact-flash or similar controller. Moreover, this release significantly improves stability and performance, running linux 2.6.18 kernel well optimized for realtime low latency, shipped along with new and updated software. Read the release announcement for more details.

6 october 2006
Yet another update for this year, 2.2 is out with several improvements: full support for all scsi, sata and usb storage devices, latest fastest Xorg 7.1, VOIP applications, various updates and fixes to configuration tools, Cinelerra, HasciiCam and the user's manual. Updating docks is simple as usual, just copy the dyne/ directory over the old one.

13 july 2006
Version 2.1 is out with an updated kernel, important fixes and new audio applications. Exclusive release on MetaMute and our announcement to the tribes. More documentation and a page with modules to download is in progress...