CrunchBang Linux

I have a 5 year old Dell Latitude laptop with 512 MB RAM, 1 core and 40 GB hard drive.  I installed Statler XFCE onto it and I must say, I am impressed.  This is an alpha?  It's running flawlessly.  It feels very stable and snappy, making this older, low-resource machine feel as quick as my high-resource desktop machine.   Very pleased so far.

I was hoping to try Statler Openbox on my AAO netbook but alas, still have the same problem with the Debian installer:  It aborts the installation because it can't find an optical drive.   Most netbooks don't have optical drives, so no Statler Crunchbook for me

The name "Crunchbang" just sounds to me like a car accident, so...........

Wallpaper is here, it's widescreen only, 1400 x 900, because I suck.  I also suck at having my camera on me at moments like that.
http://katzedecimal.deviantart.com/art/Oops-126720961

Hello, new Crunchbang newbie    I just installed #! 8.10 Light onto my Acer Aspire One A110L, added the Kuki kernal and suggested customisations aaaaaand we'll see how it goes ^__^    I'm enjoying the experience so far.  I've been with Linux for a year now, running Linux Mint on my desktop and have played with a few 'out of box' distros on my AAO.  This is the first time I've done such "heavy" customisations on a distro, but my search for the ideal Linux for my AAO makes for a lovely learning experience.   The #! Light version meets pretty much all of my needs with my bitty netbook, so I'm very happy with the array of packaged software, only needed to add a few things from the repositories, and my time-waster games ^__^

Thanks much for the hard work