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@Michel Sardou && @rgm1960:  Welcome to CrunchBang!

@Michel Sardou:  There are ways of getting something very similar to Statler on a PPC.  One possibility is to do a minimum Squeeze PPC netinstall, then add the Statler repo, but you'll need to watch out for some i32 binaries (especially the Murrine engine)...maybe need to pin Statler below Squeeze to avoid this...

EDIT:  It seems to me that it should be fairly easy to write a script that would safely and effectively "Crunchify" any Debian Stable netinstall, regardless of the architecture...assuming binaries for everything needed for such a Crunchification are available.  But I haven't had my second cup of coffee yet.  (Also, if compiling from source is necessary, could this still be done from a script?)

Last edited by pvsage (2011-04-28 13:48:36)

He'd be waiting a looong time if he's expecting me to do this...would more likely be someone who's already developed another CrunchBang-like distro like ArchBang or CrunchPup...

Chalk me up as another one interested in a PPC flavor of #!. I already dual boot OS X 10.4 and Debian Squeeze on my old 600Mhz G3 iBook. Debian was great under Lenny, but doing a fresh install of Squeeze left me without WiFi, as per some package policy changes made with Debian. That and some other firmware issues (like drivers for some of the ATI/nVidia chips Apple used) might be something to look at when #!-ifying with a script.

I also run full on Ubuntu 11.04 (upgraded from 10.10) on my G4 Mac mini. It runs ok, but I could see where using something streamlined like #! would certainly make it run smoother.

yuppers its the best by far
its on all my putors they run fast & efficient xfce
fun fun #! crunchbang rock solid

Last edited by wltdwiz (2011-05-21 14:02:31)

Have to agree Crunchbang is great, use it  on my Laptop, very happy with it. Crunchbang has some great people also in the forums.

Yep, moved all my PCs from Windows to #!  Have no idea how I got to #! but I'm loving it. Gotta thank my linux enthusiast from in high school a few years back.

Having used a lot of distros out there I have agree. Upon install, I was immediately impressed at the speed of it. I have it installed on an aging laptop that is definitely not a speed demon and speeds along like it should.

Also the people here are more people friendly than other distros, that is always a plus to those that need to ask questions.

Have to commend everyone involved in building #! - like a lot of people on here, I have to say this is the fastest linux distro I have ever had, the support on the forums are second to none and the os in general just looks cool. I think I may finally have found a linux distro that will keep me off windows!!

Now I became a bit more matured after Ubuntu etc., naturally the best distro is #! and if not #! then my home brewed minimal Debian install to look like #!.

That's a bit harsh, considering that many of us got into Linux-base via Ubuntu, regardless of personal opinion.
Lucid runs fine on less than 256MiB RAM, & so can keep old machines alive.

So what if Ubuntu is backed by a sizeable company (Canonical)? Mark Shuttleworth didn't have to start the project, but he did do so, for the benefit of many. What about Fedora, et al? Ubuntu-bashing is almost as uncool as M$-bashing. At least we can still do BASh in Ubuntu:D

If Ubuntu is a bit like Window$ (I think not), then that can only serve to encourage more people (who know nothing other than M$W) to try it, & break free from dependency on closed-source/non-free information technology.

If you don't like it, then don't use it.

Last edited by _user123 (2011-08-27 22:19:08)

I don't have much experience with either #! or Linus in general, but I can say that I'm enjoying the time I spend on my installation of it. Seeing all that free RAM makes me just so happy for some reason, and even configuring stuff in the terminal is starting to feel nice now that I've gotten past my fear of it.
The only thing I don't like much so far is how the repositories seem to not be updated too frequently, I guess. Even though I can just Google whatever I want to install or update, having everything in the same place and doing one-button upgrades probably feels nice.