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Topic: Lite Edition

Will there be a lite edition of CrunchBang 10?

  • ali
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Re: Lite Edition

probably not, this question was asked like a million times including by yours truly
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/8441/zero/

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  • Registered: 2009-02-09
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Re: Lite Edition

I see this version as pretty light as is,Plus with the post install script that comes up once installed,It give the options to install certain things,So its essentially alight version once its installed,Then the full if you decide to install the XFCE or Open box session,and Open Office and so on.That script i see as a brilliant idea.

  • Registered: 2010-04-11
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Re: Lite Edition

It would be nice if it didn't automatically install Flash though, given the plugin's resource usage and security issues.

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Re: Lite Edition

Does anyone know how we can modify the post install script? I'd like to be able to share/backup #! in a way that will make it easy to install different packages.

Just Rick... Thanks.

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Re: Lite Edition

You mean cb-welcome?

Of course you can modify it:

gksudo gedit /usr/bin/cb-welcome
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  • xaber
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Re: Lite Edition

#! 10 is already quite "lite"! The lite idea made sense when crunchbang depended upon ubuntu, but it's pointless when it comes to debian.

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Re: Lite Edition

In the Ubuntu-based #!, Lite simply meant it had less applications. With that definition it doesn't matter what the base distro is.

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Re: Lite Edition

Maybe there could be a case for "Crunchbang minimal" with just the ...er, minimum necessary for a working system (ie the Debian base install), plus some utilities and the Crunchbang theming, customized menus, scripts etc - all that stuff takes up very little space.

The main stumbling block might be the Openbox menus which have to be hand-coded. You'd either have dead entries at the start or have an almost empty menu which you had to populate by hand when you added the apps you wanted. Really an auto-updating Openbox "apps" menu would be nice - there are a couple of possibilities around...

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Re: Lite Edition

johnraff wrote:

Really an auto-updating Openbox "apps" menu would be nice - there are a couple of possibilities around...

Correct. As examples, there is the Debian menu, marchobmenu, and obmenugen.

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Re: Lite Edition

I think a lot of the apps (i.e. ice weasel) could be net-installed through cb-welcome, which could then append entries into menu.xml.

I use dmenu (Alt+F3) pretty heavily.

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Re: Lite Edition

johnraff wrote:

Maybe there could be a case for "Crunchbang minimal" with just the ...er, minimum necessary for a working system (ie the Debian base install), plus some utilities and the Crunchbang theming, customized menus, scripts etc - all that stuff takes up very little space.

Hey, that sounds like... uh, Statler! big_smile I see your point, though; as we all know, less is more! We all know we could do without some of the default apps *cough* VLC *cough* wink

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  • Registered: 2009-12-31
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Re: Lite Edition

isidor_swe wrote:
johnraff wrote:

Maybe there could be a case for "Crunchbang minimal" with just the ...er, minimum necessary for a working system (ie the Debian base install), plus some utilities and the Crunchbang theming, customized menus, scripts etc - all that stuff takes up very little space.

Hey, that sounds like... uh, Statler! big_smile I see your point, though; as we all know, less is more! We all know we could do without some of the default apps *cough* VLC *cough* wink

Thank you for coughing, because it is obvious that you have choked on something.

Not only is VLC the premier audio player, it is also the raison d'etre for my continued insistence that CB is the top performing Linux system available for internet radio player, an application well suited to OLDER computers.

Many, many other distros fail to include VLC, and also fail to attract much attention, by those with an interest in real time streaming audio on 32 bit x86 architectures.

Why would anyone want to use such an old obsolete machine for this purpose?  Try hooking up a brand new core i7 to your best Yamaha sound system, and then hook up your twelve year old PIII system in another input, and switch back and forth to learn whether or not you can distinguish the two systems.

You can't.

With regard to Linux distros, there are two kinds:  those with VLC, and all the rest.

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Re: Lite Edition

Sorry if you somehow took it personally (are you related to a VLC dev or something?), but the discussion was about "liteness". Since I don't use VLC for anything that lighter apps can't do just as well, my subjective point of view is that VLC feels very much like bloatware. Anyway, if you're so fond of it, either find a distro that includes it by default (#! does and that doesn't bother me, I can always remove it) or download it. There is almost no OS that won't run it.
Keep Crunching.

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Re: Lite Edition

why this fascination with the Lite Edition?

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Re: Lite Edition

Go read the #! zero thread posted by alexander.

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  • Registered: 2008-11-24
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Re: Lite Edition

I can't in good conscience call software that runs well on my ancient laptop "bloated." wink