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The Linux distribution I chose is [http://crunchbanglinux.org/ CrunchBang] which is commonly referred to as '#!'. CrunchBang is "designed to offer a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance."<ref name="About CrunchBang">About Crunchbang Linux. (2011, Feb. 18). Retrieved October 14, 2011 from http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/about</ref> It does not appear to be targeted at any particular audience. | The Linux distribution I chose is [http://crunchbanglinux.org/ CrunchBang] which is commonly referred to as '#!'. CrunchBang is "designed to offer a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance."<ref name="About CrunchBang">About Crunchbang Linux. (2011, Feb. 18). Retrieved October 14, 2011 from http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/about</ref> It does not appear to be targeted at any particular audience, though the fact that it relies on keystrokes rather for common tasks, such as opening a program, means that it likely attracts power users, as opposed to more mainstream distributions such as Ubuntu, which is more reliant on menus than keyboard shortcuts. | ||
CrunchBang was created and continues to be developed by Philip Newborough<ref name="wiki">CrunchBang Linux. (2011, Sep. 26). Retrieved October 14, 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchBang_Linux</ref> who goes by the name "corenominal" on the [http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ CrunchBang forums] and on [http://corenominal.org/ his blog]. No public source code repository could be found and it appears that Philip does all of the development himself. | CrunchBang was created and continues to be developed by Philip Newborough<ref name="wiki">CrunchBang Linux. (2011, Sep. 26). Retrieved October 14, 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchBang_Linux</ref> who goes by the name "corenominal" on the [http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/ CrunchBang forums] and on [http://corenominal.org/ his blog]. No public source code repository could be found and it appears that Philip does all of the development himself. | ||
Revision as of 01:54, 15 October 2011
Part 1
Background
The Linux distribution I chose is CrunchBang which is commonly referred to as '#!'. CrunchBang is "designed to offer a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance."<ref name="About CrunchBang">About Crunchbang Linux. (2011, Feb. 18). Retrieved October 14, 2011 from http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/about</ref> It does not appear to be targeted at any particular audience, though the fact that it relies on keystrokes rather for common tasks, such as opening a program, means that it likely attracts power users, as opposed to more mainstream distributions such as Ubuntu, which is more reliant on menus than keyboard shortcuts.
CrunchBang was created and continues to be developed by Philip Newborough<ref name="wiki">CrunchBang Linux. (2011, Sep. 26). Retrieved October 14, 2011 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrunchBang_Linux</ref> who goes by the name "corenominal" on the CrunchBang forums and on his blog. No public source code repository could be found and it appears that Philip does all of the development himself.
The latest release of CrunchBang, called CrunchBang 10 "Statler" R20110207, is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions with either the Openbox window manager or the Xfce4 window manager. They are available for download as torrents from the CrunchBang downloads page. The installation CD images are between 640-690MB in size, while a fresh installation of 64-bit CrunchBang took SIZE OF INSTALLATION
CrunchBang is based on Debian GNU/Linux,<ref name="About CrunchBang"/> with the latest release being based on Debian 6.<ref>CrunchBang 10 “Statler” r20110207. (2011, Feb. 8). Retrieved October 14, 2011 from http://crunchbanglinux.org/blog/2011/02/08/crunchbang-10-statler-r20110207/</ref> Previous to this, CrunchBang was based off of Ubuntu releases, up to Ubuntu 9.04.01, but in the latest release Ubuntu was bypassed and it was based straight off of Debian.<ref>Development release: CrunchBang 10 “Statler” Alpha 1. (2010, March 19). Retrieved October 14, 2011 from http://crunchbanglinux.org/blog/2010/03/19/development-release-crunchbang-10-statler-alpha-1/</ref>
Installation/Startup
Basic Operation
Usage Evaluation
Part 2
Part 3
References
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