Ahoy fellow Blenderheads!
I realize I’m a bit slow with this, but I just found today that they’ve release v2.0 of Dynabolic.
Now there’s probably two groups of people: those saying “What on earth is Dynabolic?” and those saying “Why should I care?”
(Those saying BOTH these things either ask too many questions, or are plain cynical. :D)
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Dynebolic is a LiveCD Linux distribution (which means you drop it in your CD tray, and it boots without having to install anything.) What makes it special is that it’s geared specifically towards media, meaning it’s loaded with audio, video and graphic software, including everybody’s favorite 3D program! (I mean blender of course)
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What makes it worth looking at is the fact that Dynebolic is built on a mosix core, which means that you can load it on several networked computers, resulting in an instant render farm!
(Oh yeah, and the fact that you can plop down infront of virtually any computer and start Blendering without any set-up is a definate plus)
Now, I realize that they’ve only included Blender 2.40 on this release, but it’s still a big step up from Blender 2.35 that they had in the last version, and definately still usable.
Only downside is that they got rid of the games from the last version… My favorites being Liquid-wars and Project Starship.
To those working on the Genisis OS project might want to look at this: all the tools are provided for creating a customized distribution. It shouldn’t be too difficult to take the latest CVS build, maybe patch it for verse, and create a Blender specific version… (If nothing’s done by the time 2.42 is released, I might even try it myself)