Dynebolic is a GNU/Linux distribution specialized for creating multimedia content professional level. It gained popularity ten years ago when it stopped developing, and now it returns as the interesting project it always was, in the “Live USB” format, which allows it to be run from the same portable media without the need for installation.

A big advantage of Linux is that it has concrete solution for any task that the user needs and for all types of personal computers, whether it is a high-performance desktop computer or a small notebook. And there are those focused on servers, firewalls, routers, games, containers, file servers, security, penetration testing and much more.

There are also distributions for creating jobs, and one of the popular ones at the time was Dynebolic, which is now back in version 4.0 (Beta) as a tool for autonomous production and publishing of multimedia content. The software is recommended by the Free Software Foundation and is peer-reviewed, with source code available for inspection.

Dynebolic 4.0 is based on the Debian derivative Devuan 5 ‘Daedalus’, Linux kernel 5.0 and The KDE 5 Plasma desktop with “Activities” that provide presets for five specific workflows: streaming, audio, video, graphics and publishing. Pre-install about twenty apps and according to their developers “It has everything you need and you don’t have to pay for anything else”.

Development Not only is it completely freeYippee 100% free. It adheres to the GNU Project’s Free Systems Distribution Guidelines and includes exclusively free and open source software: “we reject non-free applications, non-free programming platforms, non-free drivers and firmware, non-free games and any other non-free software, as well as unreleased manuals or documentation”they emphasize.

Another advantage of Dynebolic is its distribution and boot format, since it works from a USB flash drive (or optical drive), without the need for installation and thus without affecting the main installed operating system. You can download latest Dynebolic ISO, Create a bootable USB drive and start using this creative workstation wherever you need it. If you want to test it beforehand, you can run the image directly on the VMs.