So is Debian testing/unstable similar to Arch Linux, or does Arch still have newer packages?

Arch is ahead of Debian Sid (unstable) right now, because Sid was "frozen" while they were prepping Lenny for stable release. Now that Lenny is out, Sid is updating rapidly on a daily basis. There is also Debian "experimental," which is even newer than Sid, but most people don't actually use that as a full distro. Rather, you would use the experimental repo for a specific package (let's say you needed the latest version of something, but it hasn't made it to Sid yet, you can pull it in from experimental at your own risk).

As to whether or not Arch and Debian are "similar" in the big picture--there are a lot of differences, the biggest being that Debian uses apt-get (or aptitude) and Arch uses pacman. Debian would be much more familiar than Arch to the average Crunchbang user.

flicck, just wanted to ask what do you really GET with debian that you do not GET with ubuntu?

Hi Gmemo, I won't claim to answer for flicck but here are my thoughts: The coolest thing about Debian testing and unstable is that they are "rolling release." You keep your system constantly up to date, rather than a big dist-upgrade every 6 months like with Ubuntu. Frankly the 6 month cycle is getting annoying; here we are awaiting #! 8.10.3 when Jaunty comes out in 2 months...

Flicck, I agree that Debian netinstall is awesome, and I have done it a couple of times. To answer your question, there are a few differences between sid and sidux, but the biggest is, sidux has its own kernels. For example, Debian sid was frozen at 2.6.27 for quite some time, while sidux users were enjoying 2.6.28-sidux. I haven't used sidux long enough to really have a strong opinion, but I've heard claims that sidux is more stable than sid. It is also more of a "stand alone distro" with a live CD and easy installers for hard drive or usb.

You can choose not answer that actually

But what I actually meant is that, it would be a stumbling block for Corenomial if he ever theoretically decided to port #! to sidux, since #! is built from a minimal Ubuntu install and there is no comparable sidux minimal install.

the big problem is the array-kernel which I probably have to compile myself for debian. And that means I have to learn something:/

Completely unnecessary to port the array.org kernel to Debian, as Lenny has excellent support for the eee out-of-the-box: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Install

You'll find it in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/crunchbang.list

Oops!
Thanks, I feel like a fool.

regards,
Guillermo.

Hi ggaron,
Here's the relevant section from my sources.list:

## CrunchBang Linux 8.10.xx
## Compatible with Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex"
deb http://crunchbang.net/packages-8.10.xx 8.10.xx main

This is weird, I have just arrived to my job, where I use CB, and listed my sources.list, and there is no crunchbang line in there, not even in the commented section, should I manually add it?