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Debian + Openbox = CrunchBang Linux (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the a-derivitive-distro-that-sounds-fun-and-useful dept.

"CrunchBang Linux is a Debian based distro with the Openbox window manager on top of it. So it is Debian under the hood with Openbox on the surface," says distro supporter Larry Cafiero. A glance through the #! (CrunchBang) forums showed an exceptionally fast response rate to problems posted there, so even if you haven't heard of #! (it's not in the DistroWatch Top 10), it has a strong and dedicated user community -- which is one of the major keys to success for any open source project. In order to learn more about #! Linux (and to share what he learned), Timothy Lord pointed his camcorder at Larry during LinuxFest Northwest and made this video record of their conversation.

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  1. Re:Well... by elwin_windleaf · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd say it was definitely an isolated occurrence. I use Crunchbang on all of my machines, and have found the community surrounding the distro to be very friendly whenever I've popped into the forums. I was able to meet Phil and Becky Newborough at a barcamp a couple years ago as well, and they're one of the nicest couples you could have at the forefront of your distro. :)

  2. Re:New distro? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    All a distro is just a specific collection of software/packages that is given a name.

    That's it and by that definition...this is a distro. Pretty simple.

    Crunchbang like many other distros is in fact more than that. It is a collection of packages and customizations to those packages...AND the accompaning community of developers and users....that come together to make a distro unique.

  3. Not quite as friendy # ! forums as advertized. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    While # ! is truly a great distro, it's not all Hearts & Flowers in the forums like the guy in the video says, try asking why only one usb drive will mount at a time, or why SD cards aren't recognized when a usb drive is present, or why they won't even mount, and you get back something like "well just enter the ID of the SD card and usb drive into the blah, blah, blah, and that's that".

    Yeah, do that for my 22 + SD cards and usb drives just so I can use them like I can on every other OS on the planet except # !, sure, especially since nobody offered just HOW to do such a thing, great help, plenty of help, NOT.

    It's 2013, all distros should mount SD cards and usb drive without any issues, and without cludging the OS.