CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01 Released
After 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 and contain all security and package updates available at that time.
What’s New?
For the first time, CrunchBang Linux is available to download in both 32 and 64-bit builds. The addition of the 64-bit (amd64) builds were a major contributing factor to the delay of this release, although the end result was worth the extra development time. Other noticeable changes as a result of moving to the latest stable Ubuntu release include:
- Much improved boot performance with faster start-up times.
- Improved support for wireless cards.
- Ext4 filesystem support.
Other changes over the previous 8.10.02 release have been kept to a minimum, with the exception of:
- The lightweight tint2 panel/taskbar replaces lxpanel.
- Transmission BitTorrent client replaces Deluge.
- A full Vim installation included by default.
- Pyroom fullscreen editor included by default.
- Many other minor tweaks and fixes including:
- Improved documentation added to default configuration files.
- Openbox menu items added for commonly used configuration files.
- New and improved default Openbox and GTK themes.
- Additional Openbox and GTK+ themes installed, including the popular Dyne themes.
Download locations
Please see the CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01 downloads page for download locations and alternative installations methods.
Feedback
If you have any feedback, comments or suggestions for improvements, please feel free to post them below or on the CrunchBang forums. As always, all feedback and constructive criticism is welcome and greatly appreciated!
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July 8th, 2009 at 10:18 am
[...] vogliamo conoscere tutte le novità della nuova versione 9.04.01 consiglio di consultare QUESTA [...]
July 8th, 2009 at 11:57 am
[...] wykorzystuje on domyślnie Openbox jako menadżer okien. Najnowsza wersja zawiera wszelkie poprawki bezpieczeństwa i uaktualnienia pakietów jakie pojawiły się do 6 lipca 2009 roku. Użytkownicy [...]
July 8th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
[...] faster start-up times; improved support for wireless cards; ext4 filesystem support.” See the release announcement for further details. Download (MD5) the Standard or Lite edition from here: [...]
July 8th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
There is no mention about CrunchEee, even in the download page there is no link to download the edition suited for Eee PC. What happens?
Best regards
Matteo
July 9th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Didn’t expect Cruncheee out straight away, but do you have a target date for this excellent little distro?
July 9th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I am not entirely sure about CrunchEee’s future at the moment. Netbook support has improved greatly for the Jaunty release and so the normal release should work okay, I think I will hold off from committing to another CrunchEee release for the time being and gauge reaction.
July 9th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
is there a possibility to upgrade from the last crunchbang linux w/out making the clean install? (based on intrepid ubuntu)
July 9th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
This is awesome! Nice work.
Is there any way to update from a 9.04 unnofficial install so I get the new panel, etc?
July 9th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
i am downloading 9.04 right now. my first experience with cunchbang was cruncheee and i think i might be hooked. crunchee’s speed/usefullness ratio is a killer combo. there is only one other distro that i know of that performs faster on the eeepc but it is multimedia focused and difficult to upgrade (pure:dyne). as far as i am concerned cruncheee IS the eee distro. none of the others i have used even come close. so there’s my two cents. you have a made distro that is as useful as ubuntu but not as bloated. great idea my friend, keep it up! -3l
July 10th, 2009 at 1:29 am
[...] de esta distribución basada en Ubuntu y con Openbox como gestor de ventanas. Para quien no sepa, Crunchbang Linux es una distro basada en Ubuntu, que reemplaza las aplicaciones predeterminadas por unas mas ligeras [...]
July 10th, 2009 at 3:24 am
At long last :) I have awaited this release for ages. Been fun trying out ubuntu 9.04…. but it’s not nearly as nice as crunchbang :)
July 10th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Great work!
I try #! last week and I’m already big fan.
My old Thinkpad T23 with PIII 1,13 GHz, 384 MB RAM, and 30 GB HDD simply flyes with crunchbang! :)
In way to #! be as fast as can be I’ve replaced:
* Rhythmbox with Exaile, (Exaile seems to be lighter and comes already with some stuff like EQ, ..)
* PC file man with Thunar (I saw posts about this. Well, on my Thinkpad T23 Thunar works faster for me ?!)
* Firefox with Opera (On my desktop with Ubuntu Jaunty works faster too and with less memory usge. Same on MS Windows..)
This is my experience and might proposal for playing with..
I can’t wait to try new release! :)
Keep up with great work!
Best regards from Zagreb, Croatia
July 10th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
[...] New In This Release The last official release of CrunchBang Linux was 8.10.02 and there have been a number of changes since [...]
July 12th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
[...] Crunchbang 9.04.01 [...]
July 12th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Just in case cruncheee is still a possibility and u are just gaging interest before investing in the work. I would like to vote for at least one more upgrade.
July 13th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I love CrunchEee, and would appreciate it if you’d still update it. I’m sure a lot of Eee PC users will be very happy. :)
July 13th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Just installed this on my HP Mini 2140. Works great!
I had major performance issue with intel graphics card, but upgrading to 2.6.30 kernel solved this problem :)
Thanks CrunchBang team!
July 13th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
PLEASE MAKE CRUNCHEEEEE 9.04!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 13th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
I love #!, It’s the best system for my 256mb machines. I had tried A-LOT of OSes. This is it! Since Gos, MoonOS are just a little bit heavier than #!.
July 13th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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July 14th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Schweeeeet
I’m running Cruncheee on a 1002HA right now but none of the Eee packages seem to be working. I was running 9.04 netbook remix before this so I’m thinking I’ll just throw this 9.04.1 release of Crunchbang on the Eee PC. Any drawbacks I should know about?… 9.04 ran like a dream before.
BTW keep up the good work, love your distro and wouldn’t use anything else on my netbook!
July 14th, 2009 at 2:06 am
there is no need for a cruncheee anymore. jaunty works great with the eee pc. just use the lite version and install eee-control for the fn keys.
July 14th, 2009 at 2:57 am
freshly installed in my Eee 1002HA … seems solid! great job.
July 14th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
What about the power settings for the EEE…… does the 9.04 kernel have the EEE mods for dealing with the atom and the power issues????
July 21st, 2009 at 2:11 pm
how do i upgrade to this version? or do i need to perform a clean install from the cd?
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Fantastic work! I love Crunchbang and I’m an enormous fan of the tint2 panel as well. This is easily my favorite distro.
July 28th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
To upgrade, first make sure 8.10 is up to date:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
then upgrade:
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core #should already be installed
sudo do-release-upgrade
August 10th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
(Sorry, I incorrectly posted this first on the blog about the 8-release, but it is this 9.04.01 release I d/l and installed last night)
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/SDHC 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 10th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
@Per Nordin: There has not been a CrunchEee 9.04.01 release. If you require assistance with your enquiry, please consider using the forums. :)
August 10th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Hummm…. strange… I wonder how this mixup happened? I went to the d/l for the eee version of 8 (which is why my original post was to the blog about v8) and somehow wound up with v9.
BUT, this withstanding, it still is good for you to know that this version writes over the MBR on the internal drive, when installing it to a USB stick.
Good luck :)
September 1st, 2009 at 11:06 am
Advertising on the startpage of the browser … not good. Here starts my getting away from this distribution.
September 14th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Fantastic distribution! I installed this on my old tower as a part of distro-hopping adventures. With an old Nvidia video card, a limited monitor, and a Broadcom-based USR wireless card, I had come to accept that no distro would get everything working right unless I tinkered extensively. I installed CrunchBang, got full resolution (which was actually too much!) on the monitor and the wireless card had miraculously connected to an unsecured network in the area before I even thought about having to set up NDISwrapper. This is a modest box from 2000 that only has 384MB of RAM. The boot up time now rivals that of my more modern lappy running Mint. I am very pleased, keep up the great work! My only suggestions are to make the mounted devices (i.e. CD’s & USB sticks) easier to find and to have the system automatically add new graphical apps to the OpenBox menu.
September 16th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
[...] is based on the Ubuntu 8.10 kernel — there’s a new version of CrunchBang, with 9.04 but without the Array.org customization for my Eee’s WiFi needs. I tried to [...]
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:49 am
Crunchbang has got to be the best distro I’ve tried all year. I just found out about it two days ago Sept 20 2009. I downloaded it immediately and installed it on my laptop. I love it. It has MOST the apps I was looking for with a pre-configured openbox desktop. I’ve been using different distros since 1998 and I think this is the first one I fell in love with after the first few minutes of using it. It has a rock solid debian/ubuntu base and without all the junk that clutters up Gnome, KDE, etc. I would love to start working with you guys. I will do whatever you need to be done and if I don’t know how to do it, I will learn. Most things I know already though. Shoot me an email and let me know how I can get started helping out with this distro. dtigue {AT} gmail {DOT} com
Thanks for #!
October 1st, 2009 at 1:28 pm
hey. so i am downloading the stadarnd version now for my eee701. you say it should work good like cruncheee did, so I’ll try. But one thing: above someone wrote sth. like “get the lite version and install eee control” -so is it not possible to have eee control on the standard version of crunchbang 9.04?
October 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Yes, it is possible to install eee control on the standard version — I have done it myself on my Eee PC 1000. :)
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 am
thanks for your answer. the live-usb of #! was like love on first sight.wanted it, installed it and now I am happy. thanks for your efforts, man, this stuff is totally aweome.
the only thing puzzling me was not having a normal desktop anymore. but then looking at my real desk-top I came to the conclusion that it might be better not to have another place to pile heaps of stuff an trash upon. maybe #! is a wole other pilosophy and will change my life.. wooooooh..!
October 21st, 2009 at 2:59 am
I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for CrunchBang. I’ve had very few issues – less than Ubuntu itself – and it seems very polished. Boot time was very impressive, maybe 15 seconds for a cold boot. I love that I can get more work done without thinking about the distribution as much.
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:40 am
Thanks for the best distro I have ever tried. None of distros I tried before had useful tools like rTorrent, MC, irssi, etc by default.
P.S.: I prefer it over ubuntu even on quad-core setups with >2GB RAM. I just love how well anything in it is pre-configured.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I vote for cruncheee!
I tried a couple of distros on my 901 and Cruncheee won hands-down.
If I can upgrade 8.x to 9.x that would be amazing because I really like the cut down setup.
Altertatively, something to explain how to customise standard Crunchbang 9.x to match the 8.x Crunchee (software to add/remove, config to adjust) would be superb.
Can I vote again? Cruncheee!
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Please make cruncheee 9.04!!!!
January 21st, 2010 at 11:31 am
I like it very much but internet don’t work on my EeePc 1005 Ha,where will be available the release for EeePc 9.04??
The 8 for EeePc even don’t work on 1005..
January 21st, 2010 at 11:34 am
@arlind: I am not sure if this will help, but there is a guide for getting CrunchBang working on the Eee PC 1005 at: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/3954/asus-eee-pc-1005ha-crunchbang-installation-guide/
January 21st, 2010 at 3:38 pm
thank you Core,i’m going to try even it seems too long for me.. :P