CrunchBang Linux 8.10.02 released
The 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
Lite Edition
CrunchEee ASUS Eee PC Edition
Credit & Thanks
A huge thank you is owed to everyone who has involved themselves in the growing CrunchBang community. Your feedback, help, support and contributions are really appreciated and are helping to shape CrunchBang Linux into a usable distribution! You rock!
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January 18th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Thank-you! Hmmm, why isn’t Ubuntu adding and OpenBox Window Manager distro (like CrunchBang) to their list of supported distros?
Will test the new 8.10.2 version soon on HP 2133. Thanks for CUPS fix (only need to add CUPS-PDF to complete). Does 8.10.2 have latest ALSA stuff (as netbooks of different kinds were having Ubuntu related issues with Microphones not working – and per many posts with different instructions most Microphone problems were fixing it with a total upgrade to the latest ALSA stuff – even to version 18a of ALSA was suggested by some)? Hmm, with Crunchbang 8.10.1 on HP 2133 – other only major issue was Webcam with Cheese was slow, didn’t get around to playing with those two fixes before I saw today that 8.10.2 was posted… and so, we will have to see what 8.10.2 does?
Most likely still have to play with the suggestions on this site to get some Ubuntu 8.10 related stuff up (HP 2133 external monitor, etc)… see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP2133 – link to Via driver for HP 2133 for Ubuntu 8.10 lists driver as beta still?
CrunchBang is the only LINUX to run on the HP 2133…
January 18th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Thanks Philip! Downloading now.
It’s exciting to see the #! community growing. :)
CrunchBang has transformed my laptop into a speed demon. It’s wonderful having more control over Linux install than one has with Gnome, which I also like, but which contains a lot of software I don’t use or especially like.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:50 am
In the middle of downloading this version now.
Will check it out in VirtualBox on our new iMac.
Previous version of CrunchBang just screams in a virtual machine. Heck even on my main desktop PC for that matter.
Hopefully 8.10.02 will be even better!! :)
January 19th, 2009 at 6:02 am
Hi there,
I’ll test this brand new release today on different hardware : desktops ans laptops.
And will tell you what I think of.
Just stay tuned.
Good to see Crunchbang Community growing and growing.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Is there a way to update 8.10.01 with the new 8.10.02 w/out reinstalling the newest version?
January 19th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
@Boondox: There will be an update script/package available soon.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:49 am
1- Thanks for the updater
2- Hmmm, Is is me? Hmmm, did I miss where trash is (created then deleted abiword file and no trash bin showed up anywhere on the file manager (it was there in the file manager before in 8.10.1)? Where is the trash bin located now?
January 27th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Loving the distro on my Asus Eee.
But let’s see a 64 bit build please!
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:36 am
You have really outdone yourself with this distro. I love the simplicity and power. Its beautiful!
June 24th, 2009 at 2:42 am
I just loaded this on the Acer Aspire One and can’t believe how great it is! I’ve used eeebuntu and there’s no comparison. Thanks so much.
August 10th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Asus 1000HG with 2GB RAM.
I d/l the CrunchEee ASUS Eee PC Edition (standard) and installed it to a USB drive last night.
(Just so there is no misunderstanding, I first created a start-up “live” USB and from there installed it to another USB)
The reason I installed it to a USB is for trial purposes and I dont want to mess up my functioning system on my HD (the pre-installed Win XP).
After the installation, I get GRUB loading error #21 and I cant boot from my HD!
What’s more is that I can’t boot from the Cruch-USB installation (!) (displaying only blinking underscore)
But I CAN boot from a Flash (4GB SDHC) on which I have EEEbuntu 3.0 or Puppy (from a 2GB SD Flash)…
I have previously done other such trial installations on USB or SD/SDHD with no problems and never had any problem booting from the HD with Win XP (which I do after each installation, just to check, before I boot again from the newly installed linux on USB or SD/HC (Puppy, Easypeasy, Ubuntu NBR, Mint, etc). It was now after installing Crunch that I no longer can boot from the HD and get the GRUB error #21.
The internal HD is still reachable (thank God) once I boot from e.g. Eeebuntu, so I could back up some files from it, and it is also visible in the Set-up, and can be chosen as boot drive, but from there on all I get when trying to boot from it is GRUB error #21.
From what I have gathered from looking in forums, this means that Crunch has for some solitarily inexplicable reason chosen to rewrite the MBR on my internal HD while installing to the USB. Or?
August 18th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
@Per Nordin
grub error 21
same problem on a hp mini 2133 with CB 9.04.01!
someone have found a solution?
August 18th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
sorry, corrected the mail address
August 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
@Per
You’ve to reset with grub the MBR
Solution:
boot from live cd/usb
in terminal:
sudo grub
and you pass in the grub mini bash
grub>
than
grub>find /boot/grub/stage1
and you’ll get something like
(hd0,1)
it probably give different result for you
than
grub>root (hd0,1)
grub>setup (hd0)
quit
and reboot