crunchbang 9.10 release (Page 9 of 10)

I took your list and made a few changes for self:

• Sticking with #! 9.04.01 until a new version is released

• Installing Debian Testing and building up your own system (sorry, shamless plug there )

That last option is an option if I'm not happy with the first option.

And the first one has options too:
[*]Sticking with #! 9.04.01 until 9.10 is released[/*]
[*]Sticking with #! 9.04.01 until 10.04 LTS is released[/*] or is that 10.10?
[*]Sticking with #! 9.10 or 10.04 or 10.10 until ... [/*]
[*]Sticking with Dr Phil's Debian #! until ... [/*]

Choices!!! - so many choices - so little time. 

Have a GREAT day.
Bruce

Last edited by Bruce (2009-12-20 15:12:00)

She is still using Windows XP with no intention of switching...

ps capitalist I wish... none of my computers were over $200...

Last edited by snowpine (2009-12-20 15:28:58)

Still, how about one computer limping along for two .  But I'm happy I have it. 

Only goes to strengthen my argument. 
If she get a "blue screen" who fixes it?

NO DISRESPECT MEANT:
Kinda like the Pope giving a lecture from his baloney on the sins of birth control and how one should use the "rhythm method". When up from the crowd comes the voice of an old woman: "Hey, Pope!  You no playa da game, you no makea da rules. Capish!

Tell your wife: You don't use Linux, you don't make the rules! and if she tosses you a blanket and pillow while pointing to the couch don't blame me. 

Use the time to install what you want on your laptop/netbook. {I did NOT say that!}

Have a nice day.
Bruce

'If she get a "blue screen" who fixes it?'

To be honest, XP was the only Windoze that never went BSOD on me.

Geeze, two comments like that in a row.  They must have made a mistake with XP.  No way they would have put that on the market if they had a clue it would still be running 8 years later.  Kinda wish now that I had it. 

Sounds like the old "286" was for car engines, the thing never broke down so they stopped making it.  No money in repairs.

Have a nice day.
Bruce

Last edited by Bruce (2009-12-20 19:41:55)

Actually, I should make the point that Ubuntu guidelines dictate that LTS releases import from Debian testing.

Basically, there's no difference between basing Crunchbang on an Ubuntu LTS or Debian testing; it's the same thing, roughly same length of release cycles, too.

I'm in for dropping Crunchbang 9.10 completely (I see no real problems with 9.04) and basing the next release off Lucid, and then release another version in 12.04. Until then Shuttleworth may have got Debian and Ubuntu to cooperate on an LTS / Debian release.

Edit: how about you begin tracking Lucid now? they've dropped hal completely and use a really great kernel, it seems to quite a promising release.

Last edited by susikala (2009-12-22 10:03:59)

   that'll do me.   9.04 works right now, so i'm not rocking the boat until i can move to a boat i can sit around in unrocked for even longer, should i so choose.

and as for rolling release... dunno why we cant just have the periodical releases n hit mod+U for update whenever we feel like to get a "rolling release" feel.

If there is a 9.10 release, the one and only my proposal would be corenominal to become a milionaire, and, of course, to start sending free cd-s Joke aside, this 9.04 release is perfect, but lets not forget that it (well, ubuntu jaunty) is going to be supported till october this year, so I guess another build on either ubuntu lts or debian would be nice.

Just my .02, but it seems like if #! were to move to Debian testing then all it would need to become is a quick "aptitude" command over a base install of Debian and maybe a custom kerenel (which, being a broadcom user would make me love Phil forever). Just imagine though; a system that is set and doesn't need to be overhauled every six months. Simply gorgeous.

I'm frankly tired of six month break..... I mean release cycles. All that excitement to sit in front of my laptop and fix the simplest things? I know it's very pessimistic, but seriously, it's starting to feel like 1 step forward and 2 steps back.

I'm not a hacker or programmer or typical computer nerd, but I've looked at #! as a distro for the above. Though, I'm not afraid to roll the sleeves up and get dirty and change things and play. We've all seen the screenshot every month. Everyone does some sick things with #!. Things I don't always have the time to figure out, but seriously y'all are sick when it comes to this stuff.

What I'm saying is, if Phil moves things to debian testing; does #! need to be a ditro still? Or should it just be a quick install script to get things rolling? If it's Debian after all shouldn't we be able to "aptitude install" our own #!. Maybe changing this distro experience to a "friendlier" Debian forum (just my experience, those guys are kind of hardcore)? You know lets make our own DebianBangs together. Help each other out and show why this is the best Linux community out there. I mean, I signed up and I'm not real big into forums, but everyone seemed so cool and everyone's doing cool things with #!. Oh and everyone helps everyone. Awesome concept!

Just some recent thoughts on the whole matter. I mean dude's busy, we should enjoy the gift he's givin' us, and quit bothering him with the whole when's the next release thing. #! for me now is like life and the next release is the grave. I'm not in too big a hurry to get there until the time is right. If I want to spice things up I'll learn more about conky, tint2 or openbox and if/ when I get those down pretty well then I'll move on to building the Debian system I want and learning to "roll" a kernel to get my broadcom working.

I've tried to upgrade from CB 9.04 to 9.10 and had lots of issues - and 9.04 works perfectly well for me, so no need of newer version. If corenominal decides to go for Debian as a base - keeping grub1, keeping the way of CB - good; if not - 9.04 works fine, and I can wait till 10.04 for next release.
No hurry for me.

There is no #! 9.10 however since its based on Ubuntu they just do an upgrade (Jaunty to Karmic).

I've tried upwards of 20 distros now and #! is my favorite.  I really hope the 9.10 release comes soon though.  I just bought a new computer and tried out crunchbang on it, but it doesn't recognize my lan and who knows what else.  Without being able to connect online with it, it doesn't serve it's purpose for me which was to surf safely and quickly and the reason I switched from windows.  I  still have it installed on my old computer (this one), but I just tried out Ubuntu live cd on the new pc and the new computer is so much faster that I might just go ahead and install Ubuntu on it.  But, if I have the choice, I'd prefer crunchbang.  I like crunchbang not only because it's faster, but because it's simpler and actually easier for me to configure and set up the way I want.  I like being able to add keyboard shortcuts in the rc.xml file. I like the autostart.sh file that works better than any other way of starting applications on other distros.  I like the ease of editing the openbox menu.  I like being able to use the panel I want to and not being stuck with the bloated gnome or the difficult to configure lxpanel (I use crunchbang panel, btw).  Crunchbang is just better all around.  If it supported my new hardware it would be installed on that computer right now and  I wouldn't be typing this.  Unfortunately, while I put in a lot of effort to learn to do everything needed to run crunchbang originally, I don't yet feel competent enough to do an install with a minimal cd and trying to get an old script to work with a newer Ubuntu version.