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Development release: CrunchBang 10 “Statler” Alpha 2
Friday, June 25th, 2010The second alpha release of CrunchBang 10 is now available. The new alpha 2 builds were created on Thursday 24th June 2010 and are in sync with the Debian Squeeze repositories as of that date. Debian Squeeze continues to develop nicely and the Debian developers are doing a fantastic job. Major updates to Squeeze and [...]
Development release: CrunchBang 10 “Statler” Alpha 1
Friday, March 19th, 2010The first alpha release of CrunchBang 10 is now available. Codenamed “Statler”, this release is, for the first time, built using Debian sources. Changing from Ubuntu to Debian sources marks an exciting new start for the project. Statler is currently being developed using Debian Squeeze sources. For anyone who is not aware, Debian Squeeze is [...]
Dr. Bunsen @ #!
Thursday, March 4th, 2010The CrunchBang project has a new build server. Dr. Bunsen is a new VPS on Linode, running Debian Lenny. The server has been added to the CrunchBang Project’s small, but growing number of virtual and real private servers. This new server is being funded by the project’s use of Google AdSense, sales from our shop, [...]
CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01 Released
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009After a slight delay and a prolonged testing period, the final builds of CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01 are now available. As the version number suggests, it is based on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. As with all previous releases, 9.04.01 has been built from scratch using the Ubuntu MinimalCD. The builds were completed on the 6th July 2009 [...]
CrunchBang Monthly Newsletter #0904
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009A new edition of the CrunchBang Monthly Newsletter been published. Issue #0904 covers the month of March ’09 and features: Public Relations – This section provides links to blogs and articles in which CrunchBang has been featured/discussed. It also contains a listing of CrunchBang related videos on YouTube.com, definitely worth a look! CrunchBang IRC – [...]
Logo Competition
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009As stated in the first monthly newsletter, we are having a competition to create a new CrunchBang logo. From the newsletter: We’re officially announcing a #! logo competition. This competition is open to all and you may submit as many entries as you want. We’re looking for a logo that accurately conveys the simplicity, speed [...]
New Monthly Newsletter – Issue 1
Sunday, March 1st, 2009The first CrunchBang monthly newsletter has been published. The newsletter is a community project and has been put together by the CrunchBang Monthly Newsletter Team. The team, I am not including myself in this statement, have done a fantastic job putting the newsletter together and it has been really interesting to observe the 8 editors [...]
Introducing the CrunchBangers Launchpad Team
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009In an effort to open up the development of CrunchBang, I have created a new project on Launchpad. The project is to be driven by the CrunchBangers team. CrunchBangers is an open team and anyone with an interest in the future development of the distribution is welcome to join. I have currently set the introduction [...]
CrunchBang Linux 8.10.02 released
Sunday, January 18th, 2009The final 8.10.02 builds of CrunchBang Linux, CrunchBang Linux “Lite” and CrunchEee are now available. The new releases contain numerous changes and many fixes provided by the CrunchBang community. For more information about these releases, please see: Standard Edition Download locations. Alternative installation instructions. Release notes. Application list. Lite Edition Download locations. Alternative installation instructions. [...]
CrunchBang review on Hacker Public Radio
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009For all the podcast junkies, monsterb and threethirty (a couple of Linux Cranks) have reviewed CrunchBang Linux for Hacker Public Radio. The review is fairly short and sweet, but CrunchBang seems to have been well received. You can download and listen to the review at: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0265
