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witch Linux

Posted 11 Jun 2010 — by Jonathon Hill
Category crunchbang, linux

Meet witch Linux. Witch Ignites, Thunderously Casting Hexes! She is currently an Arch based GNU/Linux distribution with the intent of being elegant, while also nimble, free of bloat, and otherwise quite minimal. Standard features include: your choice of tiling window management (scrotwm/dwm), text-based irc client (irssi), web browser (links2), file manager / text editor (MidnightCommander), and drop-down tabbing terminal emulator (tilda)… just to name a few! (Source wiki http://witch.jonys.info/wiki)

Me and the witch’s history

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crunchbang10-cont

Posted 21 Mar 2010 — by Jonathon Hill
Category crunchbang, linux, statler

(Continued on from here http://www.jonys.info/2010/03/crunchbang10-is-out/)

(Also see the bottom of this entry for pictures)

After getting more time to play with Crunchbang 10 I decided to run through the installer process in my Virtualbox session.  I fired it up and choose the “Text Install” option first off.  The first thing that hit me was that this is pretty much exactly like the Debian installer.  There a few changes here and there but it looks mostly the same (I could be wrong).  The install was quite simple didn’t take to long either.

Now I decided to check out the ‘Text Expert’.  I was actually caught off guard here as I didn’t expect it to be as involved as it was.  Lots of options.  However I quickly found out that the default options were actually what i needed.  However it still took considerably longer to install compared to the “Text Install” but as i said it was also considerably more involved.

After rebooting and going through the boot squence I was pleased when it didn’t take very long to boot up.  Both versions of installing took up roughly 1.6GB of space disk space.  I can’t remember the amount Crunchbang 9.04 took but I am pretty sure it was more than 1.6GB.

Crunchbang10 is out!

Posted 20 Mar 2010 — by Jonathon Hill
Category crunchbang, linux, statler

Finally Crunchbang10 is out  (I refer to it as #!10).  I was just casually reading the updates on identi.ca saw the link to the iso’s made me very happy.  I quickly started downloading the I686 and AMD64 versions of both the openbox and Xfce types to my server.  I then downloaded the openbox I686 version and burned it to a CD (I’m offering the ISOs to download here http://data.jonys.info/crunchbang/ the directory contains the md5sums to  OR  you can download them off the official website for Crunchbang here http://crunchbanglinux.org/downloads/statler/alpha-01/).

(See the bottom of this post for screen-shots)

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