Has "KrunchBang#!" been considered?

I'd say no. And as you mentioned, there already is a distro that provides what you're suggesting... sidux. That being said, a lightweight version of a full blown desktop environment, KDE, is still a far cry from a lightweight window manager. A skinny elephant is still a lot bigger than a hare.

Now I'm sure that there may be people interested in what you're suggesting, and if so, try sidux. I've run it in the past as well. It's a great distro. But many people here fall primarily into two categories: those who use older, slower hardware, and who would still find a light KDE DE bloated and cumbersome, and those who are obsessive in tweaking, optimizing and minimizing their systems footprint. Not because they run older machines, but just for fun. The rest, they just like the simplicity of #! or like creating a setup piecemeal.

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents. Why not tackle a light KDE environment yourself? Might be fun!

I wouldn't protest it; but I wouldn't use it either. Ever.

I used to use openbox with KDE apps and I also tried openbox in place of kwin. Both worked really well. From my experience if I had to choose a DE it would be KDE. I'm a fan. KDE's apps seem to work better and be more feature full then, say Gnome's and KDE has made some huge leaps with the 4 series. For the record I hated the 3 series.

I fall in the category of "small footprint tweakers", but I still like an application to work well and do the right amount of things. Being said, IMO k3b is the best disc burning utility I've used, koffice is coming along really well and is lighter then OpenOffice, ktorrent is awesome and i have a big soft spot for kate.

Now-a-days I use a majority GTK stuff or terminal apps. Pcmanfm, Audacious, Gimp and so on. I also use a lot of LXDE's stuff. Like anything though it's different strokes for different folks. A "krunchbang" spin-off would be cool, but how would you do it? I mean it's becoming just as impossible to have gnome anything without a bunch of clutter you don't want. Just my opinion, but I think in the long run KDE might become the more viable DE out there.

I am a huge KDE fan as well, and I have to say if someone did something like this, the most reasonable way would just be to contiue to run openbox in place of Kwin, but run a KDE session. This should still allow for things like Plasma-Desktop, even though it would stop things like Compiz.

I think KDE gets a bad rap from Kubuntu, and I would be all for a Krunchbang, however it would be sort of hard to distance from all the other middleweight KDE/Debian distros like Mepis and Sidux. Keeping OpenBox as the Window manager while running KDE would really be the only real way to distance the distro from those other ones.

Then again, my OpenBox setup is running Dolphin, K3B, and Kmix these days, so I suppose I am already halfway there. Previously I was running Knetworkmanager as well, but I will give the new interface time to mature.... And I am still undecided on Ktorrent vs Qbittorrent.....

As Val_B pointed out, the KDE bantamweight division already has plenty of contenders, several of which have been mentioned above.  Besides, no matter how much we discuss CrunchBang, in the end it is still Philip's distro, and I've never seen anything on this forum to suggest he has any interest in KDE.  Doesn't mean anyone can't try building a KDE/Openbox system and re-wrapping it with Debian Live.

OK, I have a few Ideas for different #! spinoffs:

• XBashBang - A minimal and lightweight distro centered around a minimal X setup and a single terminal window.

• KrautBang - A minimal and lightweight distro, only packages compiled in Germany are allowed.

• ValveBang - A minimal and lightweight distro centered around Wine and Steam.

• UltimateBang - A minimal and lightweight distro with EVERY package in the repos installed.

• MiniBang - A minimal and lightweight distro consisting of a minimal debian netinst and some #! branding in the boot screen.

• GangBang - A minimal and lightweight distro designed around creating rap music and organizing gold chains.

I'm too tired to insult you in a proper way, just woke up, so...

I tried this too. A minimal KDE desktop. I installed a basic Arch Linux, configured XOrg and installed the core packages of KDEmod (split packages of KDE to make it slim), installed a few applications (only basic stuff) and la voila I was at around 3GiB HDD consumption and at around 310MiB of RAM after just booting into the system. Imagin squashing this to fit on a CD-R...

The moment you install KDE on #!, it looses it's crunchieness and becomes a boring Debian box.

Exactly. Instead of lurking forums and discussing these topics, one could also simply make a KrunchBang. It goes like: Install #!, remove everything non-KDE-ish, install KDE packages, find tranquility.

Yo mommah installs packages witch checkinstall on slackware.

Last edited by Awebb (2010-09-02 08:10:11)

lol AWebb, I like them all.

My favorit

this must be the funniest thread ever here .....