Topic: Smallish Blurb about CrunchBang

Heya everyone,

I recently got an older laptop to use as my main workhorse...it was the tradeoff for getting an Asus Eee Pad Transformer...the wife traded me my newer laptop in order for me to get it.  Just the same, I was sitting there with a Gateway M250 with one of the first Centrinos Intel offered humming along at 1.73 Ghz.  I was looking for something fast and lightweight and of course, I thought of CrunchBang.

I was pleased that the ISO's were updated recently and I wrote a bit about this in my blog here:  http://linux-blog.org/old-computer-no-p … s-the-day/

I'll do a more in depth review in the upcoming weeks with screenshots.  I'd just like to say that I'm pleased with choosing CrunchBang and will most likely stick with it for a very long time.

Please note that I am a Unity Linux developer: http://unity-linux.org...I would have put Unity on there as the default install is quite lightweight but we're in the process of migrating our existing package structure to Mandriva...so ISO's are unstable.  CrunchBang is about the most polished Openbox I've found though so you've won me over smile  I may even attempt something similar with Unity once we've gotten stable again smile  Thanks!

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hi devnet! wow, a unity developer on #!, that is pretty awesome smile
please don't pay too much attention to some of the Ubuntu-refugees bashing your piece of software a little too enthusiastically here and there around these parts. although i think you probably already gotten used to that smile

welcome to the community!

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^ Unity is another thing here @Rhowaldt. wink It is a distro. But sure I thought the same at the very first.

@devnet: Welcome to our little community.

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Welcome devnet!

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Welcome to the forums! smile

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@ivanovnegro: oh damn should've clicked the link! smile thanks for the tip big_smile

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Welcome to #! devnet, glad you could make it!

I am having trouble connecting to your/that blog.. looking forward to the read

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^ Me too, no chance here to dive into the blog. Thought I was the only one.

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It is accessible now

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@devnet

Now that is a positive #! review...

Thank you for that!

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^ Thanks for the update.

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Welcome to #! devnet - wonderful tribute to #! on your blog.

Except for that last line:

devnet wrote:

Remember, don’t throw out your old computers/laptops.  Resurrect them with Linux…particularly a VERY well put together and nice distribution like CrunchBang Linux!

You could have told them to toss one my way!  lol

Again, welcome to CrunchBang, grab a java and enjoy!