Topic: Crunchbang works miracles with old hardware..
After the motherboard died on my old music server, I hunted around for a replacement and found an old box in the attic. I bought it in 1998 (650MHz Athlon, 384Mb RAM). Surprisingly the old thing still works, despite being subjected to years of temperature extremes. Replaced the optical drive and installed Xubuntu, but I couldn't get it to recognise my network adaptor. Spent hours fiddling around with ndiswrapper etc, but nothing worked. By chance I found some good reviews of Crunchbang and thought I'd give it a try. To my great joy, #! works flawlessly with the adaptor (SWLU-5400, Zydas 1211rw chipset). This is a card that only works intermittently on Windows XP, and not at all on Windows 7. I've already got rid of another identical card in the belief it was junk.
Feeling very pleased with myself, I went to plug the amplifier into my new 'music server' and remembered the sound card was broken. But encouraged by #!'s prior success, I tried an old Yamaha sound card that wasn't recognised by the Windows box. It works!
I like the desktop design, very functional. I gave the system a 1Gb swap partition, but it hardly uses it. Boots in approximately 50 seconds 
CrunchBang gets a big thumbs up from me, thank you very much everyone for a great distro!
