CrunchBang Linux

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CrunchBang Linux
CrunchBang Linux 11 Waldorf
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Source modelOpen source with proprietary components
Latest release11[1] Edit this on Wikidata (Waldorf) / 6 May 2013; 11 years ago (6 May 2013)[2]
Update methodAPT
Package managerdpkg, with several front-ends
Kernel typeLinux
Default
user interface		Openbox
Official websitecrunchbang.org

CrunchBang Linux (abbreviated #!) is an unmaintained Linux distribution derived from Debian by Philip Newborough (who is more commonly known by his username, corenominal).

CrunchBang was designed to use comparatively few system resources.[3] Instead of a desktop environment it used a customized implementation of the Openbox window manager. Many of its preinstalled applications used the GTK+ widget toolkit.[4]

CrunchBang had its own software repository but drew the vast majority of packages from Debian's repositories.[3]

Philip Newborough announced on 6 February 2015 that he had stopped developing CrunchBang and that users would benefit from using vanilla Debian.[5] Some Linux distributions have arisen in its place in an effort to continue its environment. Among the most significant are BunsenLabs and CrunchBang++.[6][7]

Editions

CrunchBang Linux provided an Openbox version for i686, i486 and amd64 architectures.[8] Until October 2010 there also was a "Lite" version [9] with fewer installed applications. The "Lite" version was effectively discontinued after the distribution on which it was based – Ubuntu 9.04 – reached its end-of-life[10] and CrunchBang prepared to switch to a different base system.

CrunchBang 10, made available in February 2011, was the first version based on Debian.[11] The final version, CrunchBang 11, was made available on 6 May 2013.[2]

Each CrunchBang Linux release was given a version number as well as a code name, using names of Muppet Show characters. The first letter of the code name was the first letter of the upstream Debian release (previously Debian Squeeze and CrunchBang Statler and currently Debian Wheezy and CrunchBang Waldorf).[8]

Reception

In May 2013 Jim Lynch of desktoplinuxreviews.com reviewed CrunchBang 11:

Frankly, it’s one of the most functional and efficient distros available today. You can run it on top of the line hardware, or you can run it on older, slower machines. It’s a perfect choice for anyone who prefers functionality over form....These days it seems that lots of distros and other operating systems are adding tons of glitz and glitter to desktop interfaces. CrunchBang 11 does the complete opposite. Frankly, it’s a breath of fresh air and I enjoyed it. It was fast, stable and did what I wanted it to do. It never bogged me down in useless desktop drivel.[12]

Successors

Newborough announced in February 2015 that he was abandoning further development of CrunchBang Linux, feeling that it no longer served a purpose.[13] Many users disagreed, and a number of them proceeded to develop successor distributions BunsenLabs, CrunchBang++ (#!++) and CrunchBang-Monara.[14]

BunsenLabs

BunsenLabs Helium R4 cdsized

BunsenLabs Linux is a community-organized successor to Crunchbang.[15][16] It is based on the Debian 10 (Buster)[17] stable release.[18][19] Between the 17th and 30th of September 2015, CrunchBang's domain began redirecting to BunsenLabs.[20]

BunsenLabs is one of the few modern Debian-based live distributions that still offers a CD edition supporting 32-bit systems, with both the X Window System and a modern version of Firefox, making the distro useful for running on old computers with just around 1 GB of RAM.[21]

The latest version BunsenLabs "Boron", based on Debian 12, was released on 24 Jan 2024.[22]

CrunchBang++

CrunchBang PlusPlus (#!++) was developed in response to Newborough's announcement of the end of CrunchBang.[23] It is currently based on the Debian Bookworm (release 12) distribution.[23] Release 1.0 was announced on 29 April 2015.[24] A version based on Debian 10.0 was released on 8 July 2019.[25] The version based on Debian 11.0 was released on 16 August 2021, and the version based on Debian 11.1 was released on 23 September 2021.[7][26][27]

References

  1. ^ "CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf" Released". 6 May 2013.
  2. ^ a b "CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf" Released (Page 1) / News & Announcements / CrunchBang Linux Forums". CrunchBang Linux Forums. Archived from the original on 29 May 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  3. ^ a b "About – CrunchBang". crunchbang.org. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  4. ^ "About CrunchBang Linux ~ CrunchBang Linux Wiki". 30 April 2010. Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  5. ^ "The end". crunchbang.org. Archived from the original on 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2015-02-06.
  6. ^ Lynch, Jim (15 February 2015). "CrunchBang Linux is back from the dead". Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Crunchbangplusplus | Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro". www.crunchbangplusplus.org. Archived from the original on 23 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  8. ^ a b DistroWatch "CrunchBang Linux Archived 2015-06-11 at the Wayback Machine". Retrieved on 28 January 2014.
  9. ^ "Release Notes - CrunchBang Linux 8.10.02 ~ CrunchBang Linux Wiki". 10 February 2009. Archived from the original on 10 February 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  10. ^ "Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end-of-life on October 23, 2010". 10 February 2009. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  11. ^ "CrunchBang 10 "Statler" r20110207 (Page 1) / News & Announcements / CrunchBang Linux Forums". CrunchBang Linux Forums. Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  12. ^ Lynch, Jim (2013-05-21). "CrunchBang 11 Waldorf Review". Desktoplinuxreviews.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  13. ^ Newborough, Philip (February 6, 2015). "The end". CrunchBang Forum. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  14. ^ "CrunchBang-Monara". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 18 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  15. ^ "CrunchBang – a nimble Openbox Linux Distro". crunchbanglinux.org. Archived from the original on 23 May 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  16. ^ "A community continuation: BunsenLabs (Page 1) / News & Announcements". CrunchBang Linux Forums. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  17. ^ "DebianBuster - Debian Wiki". wiki.debian.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  18. ^ "Derivatives/Census/BunsenLabs - Debian Wiki". wiki.debian.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-21. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
  19. ^ "[STABLE RELEASE] BunsenLabs Lithium Official ISOs / News & Announcements / BunsenLabs Linux Forums". forums.bunsenlabs.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  20. ^ "BunsenLabs Linux". Archived from the original on 2015-09-30. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  21. ^ "Installation". BunsenLabs. 2019-07-09. Archived from the original on 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
  22. ^ "[STABLE RELEASE] BunsenLabs Boron Official ISOs / News & Announcements / BunsenLabs Linux Forums". forums.bunsenlabs.org. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  23. ^ a b Lynch, Jim (15 February 2015). "CrunchBang Linux is back from the dead". JimLynch.com. Archived from the original on 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2015-08-27.
  24. ^ "News". CrunchBangPlusPlus.org. Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  25. ^ "More 10s". GitHub. 8 July 2019. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  26. ^ "Linux Distro Review: Crunchbang++ 11". LearnLinuxTV. Jackson, MI: YouTube.com. 26 August 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-12-15. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  27. ^ "Releases · CBPP/cbpp11-amd64". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2022-03-08.