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Friday, July 25th, 2008

CrunchBang Linux 8.04.02 Release Notes

Update: CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01 is out now!
See: http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/release-notes/8.10.01

I have released a couple of new images for my CrunchBang Linux project. This new release brings CrunchBang Linux up-to-date with packages available from the 8.04.01 point release of Ubuntu. The new images have been completely rebuilt from scratch and feature a whole bunch of changes.

What's new?

As stated above, all packages from the Ubuntu repositories have been updated to bring them in-line with Ubuntu 8.04.01. Most notably, Firefox 3 is no-longer beta software and a couple of well-known security vulnerabilities have been patched.
Openbox has been updated to the latest version. See Openbox:Changelog for more information.
An alternative XFCE4 desktop environment is available from the GDM login screen. It has been set-up to behave identically [well, near enough] to the default Openbox session. e.g. right-click menus, shortcut keys etc. This new feature is currently being guinea pigged by Becky the Linux user.
Both the Openbox and XFCE4 sessions use the XFCE4 Settings Manager. This adds some overhead to the Openbox session, but also provides a solution to the problem of gnome-settings-daemon overriding users settings when invoked by accident — there are a surprising number of applications which invoke gnome-settings-daemon for no obvious reason.
ROX-Filer has been replaced by Thunar as the default file manager; the thunar-volman package now handles auto mounting of devices. This is a huge improvement over the previous release, which used Ivman.
A new "Lite" image has been made available. This image features the same Openbox and XFCE4 environments, but does not have the plethora of applications available in the full image. Hopefully, this new image will go a long way to satisfying requests to remove applications. The Lite image comes in at approximately 403M, making it significantly smaller than the standard image at approximately 633M.
An alternative installation method. CrunchBang Linux can now be built from a minimal "CLI" installation of Ubuntu.
Numerous other tweaks and changes, including but not limited to:
- A new Usplash theme.
- New GDM theme.
- Xarchiver replaced by File Roller.
- GnomeBaker removed in favour of Brasero.
- Terminator now set as the default terminal emulator.
- RealPlayer plugins enabled by default.
- OSMO replaced by Orage.
- Et cetera.

Download locations

As always, CrunchBang Linux has been developed for my personal use; however, everyone is free to download and use as they see fit. If you do decide to download, please pay special attention to the disclaimer, which basically states, "if you brick your system, do not come running to me."

For download locations, see: CrunchBang Linux 8.04.02 Download Locations. For the alternative installation instructions, see: CrunchBang Linux 8.04.02 Alternative Installation.

Screenshots

Some screenshots of CrunchBang Linux 8.04.02 in action, click on the thumbnails for larger images.

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12 Responses to “CrunchBang Linux 8.04.02 Release Notes”

Landrash wrote, Friday, July 25th, 2008

Hi Philip.

First a round of applause for your great work. I installed your previous release on a virtual machine and after a short while i migrated to Crunchbang on my main computer (Dont worry i got everything on backups;)).

I only miss two small things in your release that I think would make great additions.

First would be blueman from blueman.tuxfamily.org which is a great bluetooth application.

Second would be a 64 bit release.

Could also mention that im a bit curious on how you are doing this great alternative?

Best regards Landrash
Philip wrote, Friday, July 25th, 2008

@Landrash: Thanks for the recommendation. I am not familiar with blueman, so I will look into it. Regarding a 64 bit version, this is something which has been requested on numerous occasions, I guess I should pull my finger out and attempt to get it done :)
GrzegorzJZD wrote, Friday, July 25th, 2008

I translated release notes to Polish language, You can see it on my blog - Informacje o wydaniu po polsku
Philip wrote, Friday, July 25th, 2008

@GrzegorzJZD: Your translation is appreciated, thank you :)
Lars wrote, Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Philip!!

many thanks for your work. The mini install is exactly what I was looking for. I removed a few applications (I don't need e.g. twitux) and replaced rox with thunar in my old installation. So the new release is extremely close to my needs. Now even with XFCE4 as a long time XFCE4 user. Thank you very much for your hard work and keep on going your way. It seems to be close to mine ;-) best regards Lars
chris4585 wrote, Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I enjoy your releases, thanks for making something so great.
Tux World wrote, Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Really nice project. I like it and it's great. I will make a special posting for this Distro with some reviews. Keep on the great job!
Alejandro wrote, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

It is fascinating to see the possibilities of openbox.

Frankly, I love it.
Alan Doyle wrote, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Philip,

Awesome, but like most people I've a few extra apps I like to install that don't make sense to install for everyone (nginx, php5, mysql, xrdp & X11rdp especially). Is it a difficult process to add these apps to the installation disc so I could create a personalised version of Crunchbang?

I've read a few guides which explain how to customise a Live CD but go all quiet when you need to know about making it installable.

Thanks, Alan.
Philip wrote, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

@Alan: You could try installing the software and then entering the following terminal command:
```
sudo remastersys dist
```
I am not sure it will work, but it is worth a try. Good luck :)
Guitar John wrote, Friday, September 19th, 2008

This is my first venture into the world of Openbox and I'm liking it, but I'm still figuring things out.

CRUNCHBANG uses the Gnome nm-applet for networking so I am assuming there is a way to add the Bluetooth applet as well. Suggestions?

-John
Arturi Komboy wrote, Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Thanks for the hardwork Philip. Looking really good… a definite bang for a distro

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