Crunchbang Linux

I love to try new linux distributions. I have both very capable hardware and some older hardware that is good but won't deal with an OS that puts an emphasis on animation eye candy or huge configurations that live in memory.

One of my favorite new distros is #!linux (Crunchbang http://crunchbanglinux.org/). It's very light, but at the same time has some of the nicer user features Fedora, Ubuntu or Mint users have grown accustomed to.

It's not as light as say Arch Linux or Puppy Linux, but it definitely has more usability features than those two very lean distros. I like Openbox a lot and when it comes to doing work quickly it gives you want you want all at the right click of your mouse.

I think that one of the best features is that it has very up to date software repositories and uses aptitude and synaptic as a package manager. If you are coming from some Redhat variant like Fedora or CentOS then you'll find the apt commands have a good YUM feel. If you are an rpm CLI sort then debian variants give you dpkg that works and behaves very rpm like.

There are many good reviews of Crunchbang so I'm not going to go into that level of detail here. I do want to call your attention to it and if you find it difficult to deal with the new permutations of Ubuntu or Gnome 3 then I think you'll find Crunchbang a refreshing change.

All the best.