CrunchBang Linux

Just wanted to say that #! introduced me to the power of Openbox and I shall be eternally grateful.

Given that I exclusively use a 9-year-old Toshiba Portege (including heavy use of LaTeX), I am looking for stability and low memory usage.  I found one or two small problems which, I think are more to do with the Ubuntu base than #!.  In particular I found Openoffice from the Ubuntu reps (I mainly use Draw) to be a little unstable, crashing at least once a day.

Nevertheless, I did a command line install of Debian Testing followed by

aptitude install iceweasel gdm wicd gedit pcmanfm obconf obmenu gnome-power-manager fbpanel xorg openbox firmware-ralink wireless-tools flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-nonfree openoffice.org evince texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended gtk-theme-switch gtk2-engines gimp galculator openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-gtk ttf-liberation ttf-mscorefonts-installer cups-pdf system-config-printer evolution gthumb gnome-terminal

And that was it.

Without being scientific, I feel that the memory usage has reduced a bit (this machine has 390 MB) and stability is rock-solid -- maybe two Firefox (renamed Iceweasel) crashes in a month the only problems with not one OOo crash at all.

Of course, there is much more involved to produce a #! based upon Debian that just works for all hardware.

Anyway, my main point is to thank you all for your forum and the help that it provides for learning about all things Openbox and its configuration.