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He did a review of rc1 too, didn't he?
What a remarkably concise and attentive review (great looking site, bonus!) I didn't see a comment section, I would have recommended jessie-backports as a possible fix for his kernel issues.
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Found A Deep Look at BunsenLabs.
What a nice find
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@Horizon, thanks! Here's a preview of the article...
https://www.ubuntu-user.com/Magazine/Ar … -successor
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They have it wrong, Ubuntu is an Alternative to BunsenLabs.
Nice publicity though, thanks for sharing H_B.
The sun will never set if you keep walking towards it. - my son
Being positive doesn't understand physics.
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@Horizon, thanks! Here's a preview of the article...
https://www.ubuntu-user.com/Magazine/Ar … -successor
One thing wrong with that article:
BunsenLabs Linux has emerged as the legitimate successor to CrunchBang, having won out over many candidates such as CrunchBang++ and CrunchBang Monara.
The community, as a whole, rallied around our search for a new name (in respect for Philip's wish for a clean break). The other two so-called candidates were created by outsiders (though we and Philip wish them nothing but well). #LoveAndTolerate
Be excellent to each other, and...party on, dudes!
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That reminds me, OSboxes.org hosts ready to run virtual os images that you can download. They are still offering #! as a choice on their site as one of the available distros. I was thinking someone should let them know it's no longer in development and maybe mention BL as a suitable replacement.
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Top 5 Lightweight Linux distros for older PCs (Mar 31st, 2016)
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Top 5 Lightweight Linux distros for older PCs (Mar 31st, 2016)
^^^ Tragic, they're using my screenshot
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 | BunsenLabs Hydrogen (x64)
Intel Core i7-3537U | Intel HD4000 | 8GB DDR3 | 256GB SSD
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5 Live Linux Distributions You Should Know (June, 2016)
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A bitter review that has a happy ending, he likes it and is still using it (see the comments).
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Manjaro JWM vs BunsenLabs as Lightweight OS (April, 2016)
https://linuxmender.wordpress.com/2016/ … weight-os/
Dang, I really like that Manjaro theme. I'm glad we have some similar theme options. I wish our default conky looked more like that, though.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1996
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I left another comment -- sorry, I couldn't resist
“Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.” — Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII., 18.
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Manjaro JWM vs BunsenLabs as Lightweight OS (April, 2016)
https://linuxmender.wordpress.com/2016/ … weight-os/
Dang, I really like that Manjaro theme. I'm glad we have some similar theme options. I wish our default conky looked more like that, though.
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=1996
The fact that their own repository doesn’t seem to work
What? There hasn't been any downtime since February on pkg.bunsenlabs.org (minus a couple of seconds when I restarted the web server). Nothing useful I can act upon here, just vague statements. Anyway, this guy's internet connection seems to suck anyways judging from all the trouble with the regular Debian repos he's been getting...
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I wasn't happy at all to read:
none of the installation scripts actually install the programs they are supposed to… (and the BL-Welcome which replaces CB-Welcome startup script is equally useless)...
As twoion points out, there's been nothing wrong with our repos that we know of, and no-one else has reported any problems with the pipemenu installs or bl-welcome.
...elevator in the Brain Hotel, broken down but just as well...
( a boring Japan blog (currently paused), idle Twitterings and GitStuff )
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^ Well, if the guy is so far behind the curve that he doesn't know about the httpredir mirror service... I suppose even that might have problems with his crap internet service though, if twoion is right.
(We mostly only ever use Debian to remember how good we have it on working distros.)
Again, . Ever since Squeeze, Debian has been the working distro for me (compared to *buntu derivatives).
@johnraff: From everything I've read here on the forums (and I give just about everything here at least a cursory skim) there ain't a Bi*b*r thing wrong with the scripts or pipemenus in the release ISO.
Be excellent to each other, and...party on, dudes!
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Here another thing from that write up:
The lack of Ubuntu-esque software centers, etc costs this variant a lot but doesn’t prevent me from considering it a spiritual successor.
I know what he can do with that, and I'll help him do it! This is not Ubuntu!
My personal thought is "The lack of Ubuntu-esque software centers is a huge plus!"
The sun will never set if you keep walking towards it. - my son
Being positive doesn't understand physics.
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^ "Lack of" is too negative a term. "Freedom from" is better.
I feel I should reiterate that I'm not a *buntu-basher; my first serious steps into Linux were with a Dell-rebranded Hardy Heron. Ubuntu is a nice introductory distro and automagically takes care of the non-free stuff for you; Debian reminds you when you're drinking "free beer".
Be excellent to each other, and...party on, dudes!
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I'm not an Ubuntu basher either but I feel it is being rammed down peoples throats. Hit a search engine with "Debian {something to search for}" and the number of 'Ubuntu' stuff one gets is staggering. And like you I started my Linux journey with Ubuntu - Feisty Fawn 7.04 and I like it.
So today I use "Debian {something to search for} -ubuntu"
The sun will never set if you keep walking towards it. - my son
Being positive doesn't understand physics.
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Brian wrote:(We mostly only ever use Debian to remember how good we have it on working distros.)
Ever since Squeeze, Debian has been the working distro for me ......
As a relative newbie I don't understand the reference to Debian either. I have found it reasonably straightforward to install and it is not a major job to enable the contrib and non-free repos if required. I prefer to stay close to the "mother distro" rather than the derivative. I suppose I may eventually even get to Arch
I don't have BL installed at the minute but when I did (RC1) I had no problems with scripts - on the contrary I found them to be excellent.
"The long way out is the short way home"
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One guy had his install go screwy and he ranted on his blog. No biggie.
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The Linux Action Show featured an installation of BL on today's show. I caught the livestream this afternoon, but the show should post later tonight on YouTube. Chris Fisher did a segment on installing Linux on 10-year-old hardware and decided to use BL for his test. He seemed duly impressed, although he kept referring to the distro as "BusinessLabs." :-)
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“Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes.” — Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII., 18.
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