For more information and discussions, please see the forum announcement.

To resolve these issues, the new Statler R20120207 images are available in stable and backport flavours. For further information and to discuss the new images, please see this forum thread.

The new images can be downloaded here: http://crunchbang.org/download/

The new images can be downloaded here: http://crunchbang.org/download/

If you would like to discuss the changes, please see this forum thread.

CrunchBang 10 “Statler” has been in development since early last year. The first alpha release came out in March ’10 and several development builds have followed whilst Debian Squeeze remained in testing. Now that Squeeze has migrated from testing to stable, CrunchBang Statler will also adopt the stable moniker.

The new CrunchBang 10 “Statler” r20110207 images were built on Monday 7th February 2011 using the stable Debian Squeeze and CrunchBang Statler repositories. Changes from the previous builds have been kept to a minimum. The changes that have been made include:

• Chromium Browser (ver.9) replaces Google Chrome stable.
• Debian Installer (gui & text) replaces the previous Live Installer.
• Other minor changes and bug fixes.

A huge thank you is owed to everyone who has helped with the testing and development of Statler. The continued feedback from Statler users has been amazing and has really helped to make Statler the best CrunchBang release to date. Thank you. :)

DOWNLOADS:

• Openbox:
  32-bit | 64-bit
• Xfce:
  32-bit | 64-bit

NOTES:

Existing Statler users should not need to perform a reinstall, instead a simple ‘sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade’ should suffice.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR UNETBOOTIN USERS: CrunchBang images will more than likely fail to work if copied to USB devices with Unetbootin. Please use the recommended method for creating USB installation media.

If you do decide to give CrunchBang a try, please visit the forums and join the conversation. We would love to read your feedback and suggestions for improvements!

These updated Statler images feature the following changes:

• Google Chrome installed as the default browser.
• A new live-installer, as used by the LMDE project.
• Plymouth graphical boot loader enabled by default after installation.
• Improved font rendering.
• Improved post-installation script, providing optional installs of:
  • Liquorix/Zen kernel.
  • Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment and browser plugin.
• Back to black artwork.
• 100s of additional plugins and filters for GIMP via the ‘gimp-plugin-registry’ package.
• Updated Dropbox packages and Thunar Dropbox extensions installed by default.
• Pino replaced by Heybuddy, a micro blogging Indenti.ca client.
• Various other minor fixes and improvements, including, but not limited to:
  • Xfce menu fixed for applications requiring root privileges.
  • Missing ‘wireless-tools’ package is now included.
  • Viewnior image viewer rebuilt without the GNOME specific features.
  • Updated Elementary icons.

Existing Statler users should not need to perform a reinstall, instead a simple ‘sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade’ should suffice.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR UNETBOOTIN USERS: CrunchBang images will more than likely fail to work if copied to USB devices with Unetbootin. Please use the recommended method for creating USB installation media.

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 visit the forums and join the conversation. We would love to read your feedback and suggestions for improvements!

The main focus behind this release was to incorporate the 5 months worth of package updates that have occurred since the previous Statler alpha 2 images were created. Changes to the application line-up and system defaults have been kept to a minimum. The only changes of note are:

• The artwork has been updated to reflect the recent website redesign.
• The Xfce variant now uses Xfce’s native panel by default. tint2 remains installed.
• The Openbox variant has had Orage replaced by gsimplecal.
• The Openbox variant now features johnraff’s “places” and “recent files” pipe menus.

Any existing Statler users should not need to perform a reinstall, instead a simple ‘sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade’ should suffice.

Regarding the “20101205″ thing, this release and any future Statler releases will now feature a date based revision identifier. There will not be any more “alpha” images and you should not expect to see any “beta”, “RC” or “final” images either.  From this point on, if anyone needs to make a judgment as to the stability of Statler, they should check the date based identifier against the progress of Debian Squeeze.

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 visit the forums and join the conversation. We would love to read your feedback and suggestions for improvements!

The new design will be changing in the opposite direction to that recently taken by the Ubuntu design team, which only seems fitting. So, whereas the new style in Ubuntu is inspired by the idea of “Light”, the new style for CrunchBang will be inspired by the idea of “Dark”. o_O

Seriously though, the new design will feature a dark theme, a fixed width layout and a new unified custom Google search box, which will appear directly under the site’s main menu. Hopefully, these changes will strengthen CrunchBang’s identity (pardon the BS) and make the site more usable, while also making it easier to develop. The changes should also make it clear that CrunchBang is no longer based on Ubuntu, instead showing its new status of being a Debian GNU/Linux derivative.

The new website design will be rolled out over the next week or so. While this is happening, if you notice any problems, please can you make a note of them and provide any feedback and/or fixes in this forum thread. Thank you.

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!

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 the codename of Debian’s current “testing” release and will be Debian’s next “stable” release.

Statler alpha 1 is available to download in two main flavours, those being Openbox and Xfce. Both the Openbox and Xfce versions currently feature the same line-up of applications and the new Xfce version has had its session set-up to mimic that of previous CrunchBang Openbox sessions, i.e. a minimal desktop with right-click main menu and application short-cut keys.

Regarding the pre-installed applications, this alpha release features a minimal offering. The application line-up will be revised in future development releases. Further releases will also concentrate on improving documentation, which is currently very sparse.

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! :)

Please see the wiki for the release notes. Also, please come and join in the statler conversion on the forums. We would love to read your feedback and suggestions for improvements!

More information about Dr. Bunsen can be read on the CrunchBang forums.