I recently came across Crunchbang. It seems like an interesting distro, especially since I am a fan of *box wm, particularly fluxbox. A lot of people seem like the distro.

To my understanding, it is pretty much just Debian (uses Debian repos) with a few added things from the Crunchbang repo. I am curious though as to what Crunchbang actually adds to Debian.

Well, there might be other details, but basically it comes configured with openbox for the WM out of the box, with conky already set up on the desktop, and a pretty handy setup script that auto runs on your first login to the main console. It takes a bit, but it offers the opportunity to download/install things like a LAMP server, Open(Libre?) Office, various media plugins, etc. etc. It takes a *lot* of the pain out of setting up a functional multimedia desktop on a Debian base. IIRC, it was originally based off Ubuntu but transitioned to Debian a few releases back. I don't have it in front of me (usually keep at least one VM with it loaded on my desktop) but I believe it also still uses sudo more than su, possibly a remnant of its Ubuntu heritage. Either one works.

I'd highly recommend firing up a copy in a VirtualBox session and taking a look at it. It gives a pretty smooth experience on lower-end hardware in my experience.

Plus if you like a very 'dark' UI it may be just the ticket for ya

Read a few reviews, like the six listed at
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?dis...ion=crunchbang
(or even mine, on this site!)

I keep forgetting about the distro reviews section on this site. Thanks for the reminder!

Thank you for the info!