“A few Years ago, I was given an old amd 800mghz machine which
was deemed to “slow” to run xp with service pack 3. I tried a few
distro’s on it and had settled with Wolvix. But shortly after that,
a new distro with a weird name,”#! crunchbang”, was introduced on
distrowatch. This distro touted an unknown (to me) environment
called Openbox. Openbox was supposed to be a lightweight system,
and was based on Ubuntu -which i had used before. Like many others,
I downloaded it sometime in Nov 2008. After about 10 minutes
playing with the live CD, I just had to install it. Shortly
thereafter I had this #! OS installed, with it’s plain interface
and dark theme, but it ran beautifully! It was quick on my old
machine, and everything “just worked!I remember finding a friendly
Forum there, One that turned out to be one of the greatest
community forums I have ever been a part of. I still remember My
first post on the #! forums, nothing I installed would appear on
the menu. I knew that this must be a problem, somehow overlooked by
the developer, So I posted my concerns. I was answered by
corenominal (AKA Phillip Newborough) himself. He explained to me
how to enter new menu items by hand. Being answered by the
developer himself, showed me from the start, just how special this
Distro was. During the course of the next year, I leaned from him
and many others, on that forum, what I now realize has totally
destroyed my happy-go-lucky computer life, and started me down the
road of endless tweaking and hacking of any system I use…
thanks Guys!“Skip forward a few years – my computers are now all
multi-core machines now, and I have no need of a lightweight
system, yet here I see #! on distrowatch, with a new release, but
now based on Debian squeeze, still in the top 20 at distrowatch,
and still making news. So I just had to download and install it on
my trusty test machine, (a P4 Toshiba laptop with 1 gig memory.)
and find out just what changes have been made to one of my all time
favorite distro’s.”
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