CrunchBang is and I hope always will be about experimentation and sharing of ideas :cool:

CrunchBang really is a team effort, I just do the donkey work. Without all the input, suggestions and feeback, the project would not be where it is now, wherever that is. :D Also, I think it is very important to remember that the project is not only about the ISO images. For me, the best thing to come out the project to date are these here forums. :)

While i don't doubt that our suggestions and everything else has been helpful, #! still only has one developer. I mean, it has a friggin awesome supportive community which as you said, really helps with the direction and vision of #!, but if you had to list the developers on DistroWatch or something, it would be your name, not ours. Technicalities, im sure, but you can't deny the work you've put into the project.

I'd just like to also talk about one more thing...

I think for everyone who is involved with #! in one way or another, or ever was, these forums are mighty important.
You can kind of grasp what I'm talking about by looking at the number of users on the forums, and how many are actively using #!.
There are many who have moved to debian base, or arch base, or other unrelated distributions, or to Windows or OSX.
And yet these people are still active on these forums. I personally haven't been using #! for at least 4 or 5 months. I still visit the forums every day.

So yes, definitely the best thing about #! are these forums. :D:cool:

@blackbinary, you are very kind, but I am entirely sure that the above statement is false. CrunchBang really is a team effort, I just do the donkey work. Without all the input, suggestions and feeback, the project would not be where it is now, wherever that is. :D Also, I think it is very important to remember that the project is not only about the ISO images. For me, the best thing to come out the project to date are these here forums. :)

I have nothing but praise for the crunchbang team.

Crunchbang is actually a personal project of Phillip/corenomial, so its a one-man team!
I don't mean to detract from your post, but to rather draw more attention to this feat. Being able to create such a great distro all by yourself is very impressive.
And it really makes me love Linux so much more.

Welcome back.

I have been distro hoping massively over the past year or so after ditching microsoft, trying no less than 30 distro's

I always come back to crunchbang; works on everything I throw at it. It has great stability, highly customizable features (conky and openbox (.config)), low bloat with a good range of default apps and pleasing minimalist design.

I have acquired many a donated machine running slowly from windows and given them a lust for life again thanks to crunchbang.

I have a pc suite all running crunchbang linux which I intend to develop games with a bunch of pals.

I have nothing but praise for the crunchbang team. Keep up the good work!!