CrunchBang 10 "Statler" Alpha 1 Released (Page 1 of 20)

Yeah! Downloading right now.

Last edited by Luke_Linux (2010-03-19 19:41:24)

Woohoo! I have been waiting for the alpha release. Downloading now!

Thank you, Sir Corenominal!!

I just started the download for the i686 Openbox version, but I'd like to know if it works as a Live-USB? (Unetbootin).
Reason I'm asking is because I'd like to test it out on my netbook.

Last edited by gutterslob (2010-03-19 20:12:09)

I can answer that. I assume all will, but i personally used the 64bit xfce version.
Used Unetbootin for windows, and just specified the iso, and no problems at all.

I actually came back onto the board to praise the LiveCD SO MUCH.
I reboot, select to boot from USB, get a nice text menu asking what I want to do, just select generic LiveCD, and within a second, perhaps two, i was at a completely usable desktop. And before i swear, as soon as I saw a desktop, there was also a notification that wireless networks were in range, on a card I've had trouble getting any wireless with at all (on Ubuntu 9.10).

So i am very very happy so far. Put it my wireless password, and browser was up in a split second.
So far, the application choice seem very lite, and the overall feel to me is like crunchbang has always been.

Only complaint, it seems my keyboard is in GB settings, im not sure how to change it. And until I do, i can only write £! lol.

Still, GREAT work philip!!!!! AWESOME.

I'm pretty gutsy, i must admit, using a 64bit install, the xfce edition, and actually installing it, not using virtualbox

But so far, so AWESOME! Haha.

EDIT: spent two seconds and figured out how to change the keyboard.

For anyone interested:
in XFCE anyways, you right click -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Layout and uncheck use system default, then add a new layout and optionally delete the gb layout. #! is all good now

Last edited by FiniteStateMachine (2010-03-19 20:18:27)

great news! ..downloaded   looking forward to testing it out now as a hardware-install with real usage..
thank you philip! love the choices youve made, debian, etc, and the direction you are taking crunchbang!

Downloading version xfce-i686 right now, for a notebook install :-) :-) :-)

@corenominal
Thanks

@blackbinary
Thanks for the input.
I'm a bit skeptical about my blasted broadcom wireless (why can't netbooks just come with Intel wifi, it'll only be like $5 extra... ugh).
I'll probably only get around to installing it tomorrow though, since it's already past 4am where I'm at and work starts in 6 hrs for me.

Edit:
5 minutes remaining till download completes

Last edited by gutterslob (2010-03-19 20:27:24)

@corenominal, I would say just that and I'd put the blame on the fact that I was an inhabitant of the third world - I'm not a thundercat - but it seems that the problem is broader

Looking forward to trying this, always thought #! would be better based on debian! Can't decide to give the openbox or xfce version a go first though? Any screenshots of either versions? Also I reckon these will be downloaded a lot, making torrents might not be a bad idea as it'll take a bit of the load off the servers.

I'll give feedback of the 64 bits version
Keep up the good work!

One question though, is the i486 version for old processors? Like intel celeron? Which means, that it would be the perfect version for tge eepc 701?

Last edited by cbrunos (2010-03-19 21:05:46)

Drat! This announcement just HAD to pop up whilst I was in the middle of passing the time attempting a netinst of squeeze on the other laptop....
Guess I'll be killing some more bandwidth later today

try adding cdrom-detect/try-usb=true to the boot line when it starts up, I've had to do that for some debian based distros in the past.

It's looking really good Core, only issue I'm having is the display settings aren't detecting my second monitor. I can just use xrandr whenever I end up installing though. The recent discussions about ubuntu not being a democracy have finally nudged me over to switch to debian. Need to wait until my finals are over though just in case.

I really like the #! powered by debian wallpaper also.