crunchbangify mint

Mint based on Debian or Ubuntu? There were some talk about it here in this link, but am not sure of it`s relevance for you.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … -possible/

Last edited by vicshrike (2012-01-14 14:47:02)

Ubuntu-based mint,for now.

Last edited by m5 (2012-01-14 18:04:14)

"You want Crunchy on the outside and Minty on the inside?".....

Actually, that sounds delicious!!!

wouldnt gtk3 and mate stuff on mint 12 make decluterring a little complicated?

Only 2 cents ...

You'd be trying to jam a circle peg into a square hole. Ya can do it, but it'd be painful, sloppy, messy, time consuming, & <insert other such stuff here>.

Jmo ... but Mint ( esp LM main, though even Debian mint stuff ) and #! are entirely and radically different approaches to gnu/nix. I wouldn't even bother messing w such a project. LM10 was my 1st real venture into gnu/nix and it was ok, I like LM alright ... See it's purpose, even wish them well w it. Making gnu/nix more readily avail to the masses ... aka: Starter distro or training wheels distro. For some a great permanent OS, that being people who want an alternative to M$ or Mac, but never want to actually have to learn anything about an OS. To give example from my limited experience.

*LM10 ( w gnome ) default summin like 270mbs, 4hrs of tweaking and customizing later = 120mbs and running fine. Part of that was installing xfce ( 90mbs down from 150 I think) fluxbox ( down to 40mbs can't remember what it was default and it'd shoot up anyway once I starting using anything cause of gnome dependencies etc blahblah ... Launch web browser 2-3 tabs and shortly BAM 200mbs. I could've n should've installed noscript which would've brought that down some no doubt.)

*#! Statler ( last release, haven't tried the new yet.) Default 80mbs or so ( can't remember the exact stats) ... 20mins of messing around later = 38-46mbs. Changing a lot of stuff, much of that nothing to do w making it lighter, setting up keyboard shortcuts, this/that so forth. After a bit, installing iceweasel9/firefox9 etc etc, taking probably another 15-20mins. Though now ... IW/FF9/Aurora/FFnightly running ... 20tabs usually well under 200mbs.)

I haven't tried either of them, but common sense tells me. LM11 ... worse, LM12 ( nightmare, w MATE, wrestling with gnome3 and the kitchen sink. Now this cinnamon thing comes along ... They are trying hard to sort it out no doubt.) Have a soft spot for LM, ah 1st luvs. Believe they are definitely buntu done right, though imo buntu for the most part blows. Most overhyped, under deserving distro in the history of gnu/nix. That's just my outlook though. I don't doubt buntu has plenty of software that works well enough too. For many various reasons, doesn't mean I have to like them.

Yep ... you can install openbox and tint2, this or that menu. Do this, n that, install this, uninstall that until you're blue in the face w LM main. It's all mostly Debian underneath so mucho is totally poss. Depending on you n how you're going about it. You might even learn much for all the time and pain you'd put yourself through. Basically what am saying, you want mint ( install LM), you want #! ... Why put yourself through that ... install #! and be done w it.

Though in fairness, seems like LM tries to have summin for everyone, gnu/nix newb to cmd line nix ninja. I don't doubt they have software that can run great for whatever someone's tastes, skill level etc. As mentioned, it's all gnu/nix ... ( Heavy on the Debian. )

Afterthought: If you want to #!ify sumthing Mint. Also makes lots of sense to start with one of the LM Debian releases I guess. Would come with it's own challenges too no doubt. But would put you mucho closer towards the goal then trying to tear down LM buntu based and change it to summin #!ey.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-22 20:01:51)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !)

Three that come to mind are WattOS, Peppermint and Zentyal. I'm sure there are more. Then there is anything using LXDE. (OpenBox window manager with a few default apps to make it a desktop environment) Lubuntu would be a good example.

Checkout this; http://madbox.tuxfamily.org/

There is also; http://sourceforge.net/projects/uberbang/ but I do not know if it is active anymore.
there are also a thread on the forum;
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … bang-1004/

Last edited by vicshrike (2012-01-22 20:26:06)