Development release: CrunchBang 10 “Statler” Alpha 2
The 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 therefore CrunchBang, since the last CrunchBang alpha builds, include updates to both the Openbox Window Manager (3.4.11.1) and the Xfce Desktop Environment (4.6.2).
Thanks go out to everybody who tested the first alpha builds; the extensive feedback and suggestions were invaluable and as a result, the new alpha builds contain many updates and fixes. For a brief overview of what has changed, please see the release notes on the wiki.
As always with CrunchBang, this release is not recommended for anyone who requires a stable system. Anyone who uses CrunchBang should be comfortable with occasional or even frequent breakage. Remember, CrunchBang Linux could make your computer go CRUNCH! BANG! :)
If you do decide to give CrunchBang a try, please come and join in the statler conversion on the forums. We would love to read your feedback and suggestions for improvements!
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June 26th, 2010 at 1:50 am
Welcome CBL alpha2! :) I am looking forward stable release!
June 26th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Excellent news, #! and Debian makes it all more down to earth.
June 29th, 2010 at 3:20 am
I’m trying it now, I’m liking it a lot. I think I’ll replace Ubuntu with this on my new Laptop. Good work!
July 5th, 2010 at 11:58 am
#! is a great distro. Just replaced kubuntu on my IBM x60 with #!. Keep it on.
July 5th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
I’m using #! in a VM on Win7, and it runs much more wonderfully in a 1GB environment than Ubuntu 10.04. Good stuff.
July 7th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Would love to see gEdit replaced by much more lightweight Scribes. Great job! (:
July 19th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Wow, this new release is absolutely amazing! Well done, folks! I’ve been using Debian Squeeze on my desktop PC for a while, but I’m thinking of installing Statler on my new laptop after Ubuntu 9.04.
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Nice work. I am using the stable Version on my netbook. I think the old theme is much nicer then the new one.
Also I got a problem with the installer. When I tried to setup a lvm with encryption, I got the error that the swap partion can not be mounted.
August 24th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Hey is the work on CrunchBang Linux stopped? I’m asking since there’s no updates to #! since Statler Alpha 2. I just don’t want this project die…
August 25th, 2010 at 9:40 am
Same question here, I tried the 9.04 live cd but since I needed to install over 180MB of updates, I didn’t install it at all. The Ubuntu 9.04 repo’s won’t be supported anymore in a few months anyway. When do you think a quite stable and new #! version will come out? I’m willing to try a beta but an alpha release is too dangerous for daily use.
What I tried on the live CD was good though. Minimalistic and super fast.
August 31st, 2010 at 5:21 pm
upping the question… waiting for the #! statler beta while trying out the alpha 2.
September 4th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
@Sander
I actually do use it on a daily basis. Super fast, super smooth. I have to admit that I installed Midori instead of Iceweasel, but everything else is the default. No major bugs so far. Yes, beta sounds more reliable but there’s no problem with alpha 2 either. They could have called it beta… Isn’t it just Squeeze anyways? :))
(I know it’s not.)
September 6th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
When’s the due date?
I’m thinking about holding off until the beta version is released, or whatever is released next.
September 7th, 2010 at 1:32 am
loving the XFCE Crunchbang alot
September 25th, 2010 at 11:50 pm
>Isn’t it just Squeeze anyways?
I wonder about this. I mean after you do the apt-get update ins’t that pretty much what it is? You just updated to the current version of squeeze. You just happen to have the packages that #! team chose to install, and you have the #! logos and some configuration that #! does for you.
Other than that it really is squeeze I guess.
October 1st, 2010 at 6:05 am
I’ve been really enjoying this – love the stability. I’ve tried both versions, and it’s made me think of Xfce more positively.
There have been a few cases where the package I wanted wasn’t in the distros – e.g. the available Gwibber was much older and didn’t support Twitter OAuth, so I had to install the Sid version and follow a series of instructions I didn’t understand to get the dependencies and other settings working. Also Chromium has been removed from the Squeeze repos when it went into freeze.
Housekeeping: can I suggest using the tag “Statler” and possibly “Development release” on relevant blog posts? Those tags would make for much nicer links to give to people when I’m telling them about CrunchBang, which I do quite often :-).
October 5th, 2010 at 4:15 am
installed yesterday, like previous #! work, solid as a rock!
thx to thy wonderful efforts corenominal..
October 20th, 2010 at 7:00 am
any progress? no good or bad news since june? looks like no news are bad news. hope you get through, because I like your distro!
November 21st, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Is there a stable official release date anywhere on the horizon?
November 21st, 2010 at 5:10 pm
@Geoff, it is on the horizon, but there is no set date. I am preparing another release, but I would not like to commit to calling it stable, at least not until Squeeze gets pinned.
November 21st, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Thank you for the update Corenominal. Looking forward to the next release
Great distribution !