CrunchBang Linux

I'm running the 9.04.01
Just took it off a livecd from a linux magazine that ran an issue on lightweight distros. Fell in love with the look and the keyboard navigation. Checked what was inside. Found the familiar Ubuntu base, reassuring last bit that hooked me for good.

I'm running it on an old machine, with a gprs connection... not crashed once, flawless connection! old crt screen flickers from time to time, but that's it. Even OOo and the gimp load faster that on other distros.
It's loooooove.

Yeap. I know about the Ubuntu base...
All right, then. Thanks to everyone.
Still I think you shouldn't be shy. Credit ultimately goes to you for starting the whole thing. People only remember inventors, not those that perfected. Look at Edison, we all know him but who remembers the guy that helped him? (oops, not a good example, what with Shuttleworth and all - but you see what I mean). Well, it's another debate, for another forum, another day...
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PS: So far, no need for help from the forums... considering my noobyness and tendency to fiddle as root with things that should be left alone, that's exceptional!

Thank you all for the warm welcome.
It is so comforting to feel that the forums are alive.

Corenominal, you have no idea how you have rocked my world. Literally.
You are one of the few men that actually had me toss and turn in my bed last night.
When FSM told me that you had done it all on you own, it seriously got me thinking. First I remembered my own beginning with Linux: the hours trying to mess around with the command line, the days I simply 'forgot to eat', or got up in the middle of the night because it suddenly all made sense and I had to immediately try that new script, or going to the office zombie-like after a full night in front of the computer, etc etc. Not to mention the frictions in the family...  I could not even begin to imagine the time (and consequently money) it took you. How did you live? Do you have a 'day-job' and worked on it at nights? Or did you spend 24/7 on it? If so what did you live on? All kind of questions that I took to bed with me. Don't worry, I'm not expecting answers!

Then it hit me that just before registering on the forum, I had spent a few hours on crungbang, not fooling around but actually checking the company bank account and finishing off a few reminders to late-paying clients... Of course, it's not new that I finish the day's work at home. But on a heavy-weight distro like Ubuntu or Mandrake developed by whole teams, I would simply assume the OS to do its job. Here, I realised that this little one-guy distro was doing just as well.
OK. All distro can do openoffice or opera, you're going to say - I agree. But still. STILLLLLLL !!!
So to go back to tossing and turning last night, I went to bed still thinking of the work all this involved for just one person.

"Chapeau bas" as we say in French.
I'm off to buy a tshirt and a mug from the #! shop. It's not going to pay for your month's grocery, but it's my way to say thanks.
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