dyne:bolic 1.3 RASTA SOFTWARE

moskal · 08-05-2004, 08:01 AM

Hey guys, I just had one quesiton. Did anyone try this one? I am downloading it right now and I wanted to ask you guys if it is worth a shot. What is it exactly for? and is it a Linux?

Thanks,

win32sux · 08-05-2004, 08:06 AM

yes, it's live linux distro, aimed toward multimedia production...

Quote:

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 and veejaying, games, a world navigator with detailed maps and factbooks and much more

http://www.dynebolic.org/

moskal · 08-05-2004, 08:19 AM

Yes, I know, I did check out the website, but is it like a regular linux? because I also have SuSe 9.1 I Love it but I can't get some things to work, like Gnome, or Point2Play, WineX, and other programs, thats why I want to try some other versions of linux, do u guys have any other suggestions of some
"easy" linux distros?

Thanks,

win32sux · 08-05-2004, 08:28 AM

no, it's not like a "regular" linux... it's a live cd, it doesn't need installation...

why don't you give mandrake a shot:

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/m...iso/10.0/i586/

moskal · 08-05-2004, 08:32 AM

Is there a lot of things missing in mandrake like in SuSe 9.1 personal? Like gcc and make and stuff like that? and is it easy like SuSe, I mean does it support most of the hardware?

Thanks for the reply

moskal · 08-05-2004, 08:48 AM

Oh yeah, one more thing, does the mandrake make the partitions itself or do I have to make them?

P.s Thanks for the site u gave me win32sux lol I liked the screenshots :-p

win32sux · 08-05-2004, 08:50 AM

all major distros come with gcc...

i think suse probably doesn't install it by default or something, but i'm sure it has it available (look in your yast)...

mandrake comes with a lot of stuff:

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/m.../Mandrake/RPMS

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/m...Mandrake/RPMS2

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/m...Mandrake/RPMS3

win32sux · 08-05-2004, 08:51 AM

the installer has a nice, easy partition tool...

moskal · 08-05-2004, 09:02 AM

O.K thanks a lot man! I've already downloaded all 3 cd's and ill burn them and later on i will install them

I have to check this out lol...but the only thing what i am looking for is playing my one and only game... quake III I have the orginal Windows version, and I've been always trying to get it to work under Linux, I got point2play, wine, Winex but none of them worked because SuSe didn't have a lot of stuff in it

, hope here I'll get more lucky

thanks a lot

DrNeil · 09-23-2004, 09:03 PM

Tried DYNA and it runs smooth as smooth as a kitten

tvphil · 10-07-2004, 08:31 AM

I wish Dynebolic ran smooth as a kitten, but it doesn't. It's network finder can't find my ethernet card, so I can't do something as simple as get on the net using Firefox. Suse 9.1 however, has no problem finding the ethernet card. If you have any suggetions to remedy this problem with Dynebolic, I'd love to hear it.

tvphil · 10-10-2004, 10:12 PM

This is an answer to myself, thanks to Dynebolic-lab.dyne.org, I found the answer to getting it to find my ethernet card. It's a Novell 2000 and the "lab" said Novell cards are a problem. It suggested running the following command in the X terminal "modprobe ne io=0x300 & pump". It found it and now I can agree, it runs smooth as a kitten. Hope this helps anyone else with this same problem.