A community continuation: BunsenLabs

schwim · 2015-03-10 14:03:17

I would like to make a very small suggestion, that being a domain be purchased for the project(bunsonlabs.com is available). It would be a terrible shame to have Core retire the domain and have nobody know where to go to for the project. Even if all you use the domain for is to host the download links, it will get the project in the search engines so anyone can find the project if they show up here to find a 404.

I know we've been told that the domain will stay here but these types of promises are never written in stone and there's really no reason to not at least be prepared for the worst. I'm not suggesting that an exodus occur. Just that the effort can be protected against the lights going out. It could be taken care of for less than the price of two cups of fancy coffee.

damo · 2015-03-10 14:08:23

schwim wrote:

I would like to make a very small suggestion, that being a domain be purchased for the project(bunsonlabs.com is available). It would be a terrible shame to have Core retire the domain and have nobody know where to go to for the project. Even if all you use the domain for is to host the download links, it will get the project in the search engines so anyone can find the project if they show up here to find a 404.
I know we've been told that the domain will stay here but these types of promises are never written in stone and there's really no reason to not at least be prepared for the worst. I'm not suggesting that an exodus occur. Just that the effort can be protected against the lights going out. It could be taken care of for less than the price of two cups of fancy coffee.

Nice idea, but unfortunately "bunsenlabs.com" is not available (although .net is)

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Nebucatnetzer · 2015-03-10 14:17:22

What about .org?

damo · 2015-03-10 14:22:33

Nebucatnetzer wrote:

What about .org?

Nope

Domain names available atm are:

bunsenworks.com
bunsenlabs.net
bunsenlabs.co
bunsenlab.org
bunsenlabs.info
bunsenlabs.guru (!)
bunsenlabs.technology

and various location domains, like .uk, .co.uk etc

Nebucatnetzer · 2015-03-10 14:23:45

Bunsenlabs.linux would be cool

schwim · 2015-03-10 14:25:12

damo wrote:

Nice idea, but unfortunately "bunsenlabs.com" is not available (although .net is)

I should learn to spell bunsen. :8

Orgs taken as well, so I'd just pick one of the seemingly hundreds of tlds available nowadays or go with something like bunsenlabslinux. The days of one TLD to rule them all are long gone.

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Unia · 2015-03-10 15:21:52

bunsenlabs.org has already been reserved for us by a community member (who can ID him/herself on their own account).

pvsage · 2015-03-10 19:20:06

^ This.

damo wrote:

Nebucatnetzer wrote:
What about .org?
Nope

Have you tried that URL? It currently has a hard-coded redirect to...well, here.

brontosaurusrex · 2015-03-10 20:10:03

bunsenlabs.ninja is what we need.

IC3 · 2015-03-12 17:32:21

i think bunsenlabs.net is cool.

Peregrino69 · 2015-03-13 11:06:06

WOOHOOO!!!!

My favorite distro isn't dead after all - this seriously made my day

samdraz · 2015-03-13 13:10:13

thank you for continuing

Digit · 2015-03-13 14:13:12

sry if this has been made clear already, i've mostly just been skim-reading to find various pertinent infos... but my question(s):

so who are the bunsenlabs devs?

is the organisational structure still merely "cats herding cats"?

where crunchbang is "#!", what is bunsenlabs? "^&" ? *shrug*

ps, love u guys. keep going!

Hy · 2015-03-13 16:00:30

#watching this space in anticipation

zephyr · 2015-03-19 04:31:51

@unia: I have been watching BunsenLabs and the Crunchbang forums for a little while since Phil made the announcement concerning the future of #!. I would very much like to see the community to come together as a whole and contribute what resources and talents, create a worthy successor. I downloaded LMDE2, using it now. I installed openbox 3.5.2-8, I was blown away that the obmenu and look is that of Crunchbang, is anyone aware of this? Almost identical, down to the pipemenu which when passover states that the Tl-recent-files-pipemenu failed to execute. I used synaptic to acquire the openbox window manager, did LMDE 2 have something to do with it. I just think it is bizarre. Tint2 is the same, not the default rounded corner one that comes with tint2 from synaptic. I think there is an effort within LMDE 2 to mimic Crunchbang. I use just openbox and fluxbox on my six HDD PC, I like playing around with other distros to see how they behave with either. This is the first time I have ever seen it already set up as it is. It is a Crunchbang clone. Would like to see what others experience with LMDE 2. I installed with Synaptic openbox 3.5.3-8 obmenu obconf lxappearance nitrogen tint2, when I booted up and logged in, it was already set to openbox. Very strange. -zephyr

Unia · 2015-03-19 10:52:39

^ Don't you by accident share the home partition between your Crunchbang and LMDE2? Or perhaps you removed Crunchbang but are reusing the home partition with Crunchbang's configs still there?

AdLibitum · 2015-03-19 19:17:10

I will be waiting for an .iso to try out.
I was saddened to find out crunchbang was ending, but luckily you guys continue with (possibly) a similar project.
Very excited about this though.

zephyr · 2015-03-19 21:26:35

@unia: I used a fully formated 1Gb drive, no other OS on it, I have never used i3, and it seems that the LMDE 2 somehow has something built in. I like openbox and fluxbox, often test distro's to see how they work with those window managers. I have Crunchbang sid, and other distros, all Debian Testing with either fluxbox or openbox. But, my drive bay's are all on the fly, just open the hatch. No way of cross contamination. I have the menu and startup files, they are not anything that could auto generate. I am new to Linux, not something I could manufacture, not a developer. I took a screenshot of the desktop, with me scrolling over the recent files-places in the menu, got a error stating that the tl-pipemenu failed to execute child process. I believe that since the reference is that (tl) being tiling. The menu has a few references to (tl), such as the tl-exit, nothing I have ever done. The menu is a hybrid menu, but looks so much like Crunchbang, it is very strange. I thought you may be interested, please take a look at LMDE 2, and simply install the normal items for openbox window manager in synaptic, see what you experience. - thanks-zephyr

damo · 2015-03-19 22:08:21

@zephyr

The openbox menu you describe is not anything to do with LMDE or the default OB menu, which has very few entries in it (and no pipemenus).

It must be using config files already on your system, as @Unia said.

EDIT: I've just installed LMDE in a virtual machine, and it is nothing like crunchbang.

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zephyr · 2015-03-19 22:36:14

@damo: This is a total mystery to me. The menu is a hybrid of Crunchbang and some references to tl-exit, and tl-pipe-menu's. When I installed the openbox items, I did not expect what I found on reboot. I have the autostart, menu.xml, and rc.xml which all reflect nothing I have on my computer. I have other drives, but were isolated (disconnected) during install. I did a full 3 way format, can't see how that it could have autoconfigured a hydbrid-openbox on it's own, or I have a lot to learn. This is simply a mystery that it happened on my machine, and can't explain it other than I have the screenshots, and the files from the openbox window manager. Anyway, removed it from my system, but did keep the files for future reference, just an odd phenomena that I can't explain. Thanks for helping to clarify this. It is definitly someones work, puzzles me how it made it's way into my install. zephyr-

nwjlyons · 2015-03-20 14:44:35

Regarding domain names. bunsenlabs.io is available. I think i/o (input/output) is a good domain extension for tech projects.

spacex · 2015-03-21 02:02:41

zephyr wrote:

@damo: This is a total mystery to me. The menu is a hybrid of Crunchbang and some references to tl-exit, and tl-pipe-menu's. When I installed the openbox items, I did not expect what I found on reboot. I have the autostart, menu.xml, and rc.xml which all reflect nothing I have on my computer. I have other drives, but were isolated (disconnected) during install. I did a full 3 way format, can't see how that it could have autoconfigured a hydbrid-openbox on it's own, or I have a lot to learn. This is simply a mystery that it happened on my machine, and can't explain it other than I have the screenshots, and the files from the openbox window manager. Anyway, removed it from my system, but did keep the files for future reference, just an odd phenomena that I can't explain. Thanks for helping to clarify this. It is definitly someones work, puzzles me how it made it's way into my install. zephyr-

You obviously have some of my config-files in there. So you must have had one of my remasters, or tweaklinux installed there. It can not have been a empty and fully formatted harddrive. That's impossible. Format it again.

http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_wip … n_in_Linux

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42erik · 2015-03-21 13:29:56

Hi

Excited to see that the crunchbang-project is being continued

But when i saw that crunchbang had been discontinued, i immediatly thought about using a debian-lxde-install and installing things like openbox, lxapperance and such, and copying the configfiles. What would be the differance between bunsenlabs and such an install?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-03-21 15:12:17

42erik wrote:

i immediatly thought about using a debian-lxde-install and installing things like openbox, lxapperance and such, and copying the configfiles. What would be the differance between bunsenlabs and such an install?

Not much -- LXDE already uses Openbox so you wouldn't have to install that but LXDE does use it's own menu stucture (lxde-menu.xml or something) and has a different polkit handler (lx-polkit rather than the GNOME version) and I think it uses PCManFM rather than Thunar, etc...

You may be better off using a netinstall and de-selecting the desktop environment in the "Tasksel" section of the installer and just build everything up from scratch with all the #!-specific packages and configuration files.

It's a lot easier than it sounds and gives you a much better idea of how your system fits together (this also makes troubleshooting any problems a lot easier).

I have done this myself with Slackware & FreeBSD and the desktops are fantastic to use -- #! is dead; long live #!
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 43#p423843
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic. … 77#p423077

spacex · 2015-03-22 12:28:34

@ Head_on_a_stick

+1

And you are correct. Debian LXDE uses PCManFM. Which is fine, but less usable than Thunar because it lacks the option to configure custom actions. That part annoys me. You still can get the "open as root" in the syntax menu, but it isn't as accessible. Most people will never find out how to do it.

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