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For those of us who aren't familiar with the project, what is Crunchbang++?

by pgl 12y ago

auxym 12y ago
A debian-based linux distro that recently announced EOL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008776 Edit: It seems #!++ is a successor to #!, likely by a different maintainer. The OP mentions differences include a new theme and being based on debian jessie, whereas the last #! was based on wheezy.
LukeB_UK 12y ago
From the github repo [0]: #!++, A CrunchBang revival project. Philip Newborough -- Corenominal -- has officially discontinued his efforts with the fast and light distro. While Philip believes that the project no longer serves the Linux space in the way he had originally intended, we believe that #! still has great potential and serves the Linux community as the perfect combination of elegance and efficiency. So far, we're still only just finishing our 'Jessie-proofing' of the #! metapackage. While we intend to keep the distro very much the same as it has been over the years, some changes must be made to adapt to newer dependencies. Most notably, #!++ will have a new gtk theme (by xoraxiom) and a new default iconset using the faenza-crunchbang-icon-theme package from the #! repo. A few more changes have been made under the hood, but stay tuned to our website at crunchbangplusplus.org for further updates. We look forward to bringing further fixes and enhancements to the project and documenting our methods and progress along the way. Lastly, we'd like to thank Philip for all his hard work through the years, the legacy he's created, and the bar he's set for sleek high-performance distros. [0]: https://github.com/computermouth/cbpp https://github.com/computermouth/cbpp
dredmorbius 12y ago
Crunchbang, I'm realizing as I read your question was a one-man Linux distro project. The creator announced its end a week or few back. Which somehow the various stories here are failing to elucidate. Which gives me yet another opportunity to trot out one of my most popular HN comments of all time: "Please Forward to Marketing": https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_forward_to_marketing_how_to_present_your/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_... Tell me what your product is. What it does, where it works, how it does it, what it requires. Is it a physical product (or is it shipped in one), an interactive application, a Web service, a programming language / tool? As a reader notes, don't make me use Wikipedia to figure out WTF your company does. (Originally on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489870)
stolio 12y ago
In short: Crunchbang is/was Debian with a customized Openbox window manager instead of using Gnome/KDE/XFCE/etc. Crunchbang++ will probably continue the tradition.
torrance 12y ago
The other replies above have failed to mention the single important bit: it's a Debian-based distro that uses _Openbox window manager_. See http://crunchbang.org/ http://crunchbang.org/
utunga 12y ago
There are way too many projects / websites where the 'about' page fails to state the blindingly obvious eg 'CrunchBang is a linux distribution'... which would save a lot of people a lot of time.

For those of us who aren't familiar with the project, what is Crunchbang++?

by pgl 12y ago

For those of us who aren't familiar with the project, what is Crunchbang++?

auxym 12y ago

A debian-based linux distro that recently announced EOL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008776 Edit: It seems #!++ is a successor to #!, likely by a different maintainer. The OP mentions differences include a new theme and being based on debian jessie, whereas the last #! was based on wheezy.

LukeB_UK 12y ago

From the github repo [0]: #!++, A CrunchBang revival project. Philip Newborough -- Corenominal -- has officially discontinued his efforts with the fast and light distro. While Philip believes that the project no longer serves the Linux space in the way he had originally intended, we believe that #! still has great potential and serves the Linux community as the perfect combination of elegance and efficiency. So far, we're still only just finishing our 'Jessie-proofing' of the #! metapackage. While we intend to keep the distro very much the same as it has been over the years, some changes must be made to adapt to newer dependencies. Most notably, #!++ will have a new gtk theme (by xoraxiom) and a new default iconset using the faenza-crunchbang-icon-theme package from the #! repo. A few more changes have been made under the hood, but stay tuned to our website at crunchbangplusplus.org for further updates. We look forward to bringing further fixes and enhancements to the project and documenting our methods and progress along the way. Lastly, we'd like to thank Philip for all his hard work through the years, the legacy he's created, and the bar he's set for sleek high-performance distros. [0]: https://github.com/computermouth/cbpp https://github.com/computermouth/cbpp

dredmorbius 12y ago

Crunchbang, I'm realizing as I read your question was a one-man Linux distro project. The creator announced its end a week or few back. Which somehow the various stories here are failing to elucidate. Which gives me yet another opportunity to trot out one of my most popular HN comments of all time: "Please Forward to Marketing": https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_forward_to_marketing_how_to_present_your/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/27d5xr/please_... Tell me what your product is. What it does, where it works, how it does it, what it requires. Is it a physical product (or is it shipped in one), an interactive application, a Web service, a programming language / tool? As a reader notes, don't make me use Wikipedia to figure out WTF your company does. (Originally on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489870)

stolio 12y ago

In short: Crunchbang is/was Debian with a customized Openbox window manager instead of using Gnome/KDE/XFCE/etc. Crunchbang++ will probably continue the tradition.

torrance 12y ago

The other replies above have failed to mention the single important bit: it's a Debian-based distro that uses _Openbox window manager_. See http://crunchbang.org/ http://crunchbang.org/

utunga 12y ago

There are way too many projects / websites where the 'about' page fails to state the blindingly obvious eg 'CrunchBang is a linux distribution'... which would save a lot of people a lot of time.