Tintii review7/5/2023 ![]() The concept of Openbox comes from the original NeXtStep OS and is quite intuitive once you get used to it. By right clicking anywhere on the desktop, you would invoke the menu but users were encouraged to use keyboard shortcuts for most actions. The main interaction with the system was through Openbox, a simple windows manager. The wallpaper was just a grey background which you could change if you wanted using Nitrogen. By default, there was a Tint2 Panel at the top with a system tray on the right and a Conky script displaying system stats and keyboard shortcuts on the desktop. So, obviously, that was especially great for older hardware. After a cold boot, the system runs on less than 150MB of RAM, I had it as low as 122MB in my virtual box install. ![]() These type of first time greeters are more common now but back then they were a bit of a novelty. Once installed, you have a simple login screen and once logged-in, you’re greeted with a nifty post-install configuration script that’ll help set everything up and install additional software. It adds to the overall spartan minimalist experience. Right from the installer, everything turns grey and it stays that way throughout the whole experience. The last version released: Crunchbang! 11 “Waldorf” was a 775mb ISO download. Now, let’s have a look at all three, shall we, starting with the original Crunchbang! (or #! for short) Bunsenlabs is a team effort of some of the original community members while Crunchbang++ is yet again a distro made by a single developer, much like the original one. Two new projects emerged eventually: Bunsenlabs Linux and Crunchbang++. He did keep the website and forum alive for some time after his announcement and that gave time for the community to organize themselves. To the dismay of many, he decided to end the project completely instead of passing it on to the community for further development. By the time I discovered it in 2015, Corenominal had already discontinued it. It became very popular and a sizable community thrived around it. It was a very minimalist distribution, based on Debian 7 “Wheezy” and using the Openbox window manager in conjunction with a Tint2 panel for it’s desktop. The original Crunchbang was developed by a single guy, Philip Newborough, aka “Corenominal”. ![]()
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