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CrunchBang Monthly Newsletter #0904

A 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 – Marcus has been examining the IRC logs and has made some amusing conclusions — apparently CrunchBang users are great thinkers!
  • Development – Philip continues the tradition of answering questions about the development of CrunchBang. Remember, if you have any questions related to the development, please feel free to send us an email and we will try cover them.
  • Documentation – Ed has again scanned the forums for noteworthy stuff and he highlights his top picks for the month.
  • Artwork Section – The winner of the big CrunchBang Logo Competition is revealed! We also get a glimpse of the new proposed default GTK+ and Openbox themes for CrunchBang 9.04.01.
  • Tips, Tricks and Hints – Cruz has exceeded himself again, this time with a lot of CLI tips about the Bash history feature. Interesting stuff!
  • Translation – Max is taking over the bits and pieces of the translation area and working on having it all systematized. If you want to do something for the CrunchBang community, you might want to get enrolled in the translator corps.

The CrunchBang Monthly Newsletter is created and maintained by Scrat and his team of editors. If you would like contribute, please contact a member of the team.

IMPORTANT: if you wish to discuss the results of the logo competition, please do so in this forum thread. Thank you.

Posted on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 at 1:38 am.
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2 Responses to “CrunchBang Monthly Newsletter #0904”

  1. nikita Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    hey, just want to say i love #! crunchbang!!! great distro. well done, and keep up the great work!

  2. 5w+h Says:
    May 6th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    Just wanted to know (not logging in to the forum on this):

    1- will the new OpenOffice.org 3.1 (main branch from OpenOffice.org site) work with Crunchbang (where it will allow us to use Thunderbird and have the Thunderbird Contact list show up as a usable database in OpenOffice.org BASE)? Hmmm, we are thinking of NOT using the Ubuntu OOo 3.0 version from the repos as there is a problem with this, because Ubuntu proper uses a “fork” of OpenOffice.org that does not list Thunderbird (or Claws) as a usable OOo database source option, it seems that want you to use Evolution only and we do not want to use MONO). We like Thunderbird because of no MONO and it’s ability to use Sync Kolab add-on and G-Mail IMAP – only missing feature with Ubuntu NOW is the ability to use the Thunderbird Contact list as database for OpenOffice.org (because of Ubuntu’s use of the fork not the main OOo).

    May 6th – OpenOffice.org 3.1 seems to be available now for download at Softpedia (but it is not yet is up on the main OOo site). Hope it is not 3.0.1 version. Downloading right now, will know in 2 hours or so, if it is OOo 3.1.

    2- We were trying out Ubuntu Netbook Remix and since it has no usable desktop it is just an icon version with the same functionality of Crunchbang.

    Q: Is it possible to build with OpenBox Desktop icons (where we would have a version of Ubuntu that works like UNR, but would be Crunchbang)?

    Note that we have been changing email addresses so this email might not work that I put in the field here…

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