“CrunchBang – A faster Ubuntu!”

Feb 10, 2008 by CrunchBang

Marius Nestor of Softpedia has written a review of CrunchBang Linux. I was pleasantly surprised when I read it, it’s actually quite positive. Quote:

We took CrunchBang for a little test drive on one of our systems here at Softpedia, and we found it quite interesting and very fast. It includes the following applications:
Epiphany web browser
Firefox web browser
Thunderbird e-mail/news client
Liferea RSS reader
gFTP FTP client
XChat IRC client
Pidgin instant messenger
GIMP image editor
Inkscape SVG editor similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw or Visio
Eye of Gnome image viewer
Agave palette designer
Specimen font previewer
Xsane image scanner
OpenOffice.org office suite
Totem movie player
Rhythmbox music player
Audacity audio editor
PiTiVi video editor
Kino video editor
AcidRip DVD extractor
Cheese webcam application
Sound Juicer CD extractor
Serpentine audio-cd extractor
GnomeBaker CD/DVD writer
ROX-Filer file manager
Thunar file manager
Xarchiver archive manager
It also includes a few text editors, a lot of system administration tools and other useful scripts. We’ve noticed that CrunchBang doesn’t have a fancy boot splash, not even a cool boot screen like Ubuntu has, but it boots so fast that I think you don’t even have time to see the boot splash.
In conclusion, our tests revealed that a torrent application is missing and we do believe that Brasero is much better that GnomeBaker when you want to write CDs or DVDs. CrunchBang is a fast and good looking Ubuntu remaster. It includes a lot of useful tools, scripts and applications. Give it a try!

The review also features a whole bunch of screenshots. The full review can be read at:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/First-look-CrunchBang-A-faster-Ubuntu-77535.shtml

Also, I’ve received a number of emails and comments regarding the initial release, most of which have also been positive. I’m still not convinced the distribution is fit for general consumption; however, it’s nice to know that some people are enjoying it.

Regarding the actual feedback, something that has been mentioned on more than one occasion is the use of the modified Darkilouche theme. It’s a trivial thing really and only cosmetic, however it does seem to cause a few issues with some applications; VLC for example, which is not installed by default, has issues with the playlist window, text is light on light. If I do make another release, I’m undecided on the matter, I’ll more than likely change the current theme to something less problematic.

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