"The differences exist from the ergonomic design, to the focus on providing a desktop environment, to the special dyne functionalities of docking and nesting which lets you run the system from the hard disk and have your data stored without the need to repartition anything," he said.

Other differences, he said, included all scripts being rewritten from scratch, hardware recognition is not the same and there are no big frameworks like Gnome or KDE being used.

"They consume too many resources for a desktop that runs on a Pentium 1 with 64MB of RAM," said Jaromil.

"In fact one of the focuses I kept with dyne is keeping requirements low. I think this is an important ecological issue, by looking at the quantity of hardware waste produced nowadays and the consumerist rush that is pushing it."

Other than occasional small donations, Dyne:bolic is not yet funded, but by the end of the year, Dyne.org will be registered as an official foundation valid in Europe.

"[Though we are] starting with no money, we have a lot of ideas and software that works already, so we might find a good sustainable situation," said Jaromil.