BunsenLabs was my favorite Linux distro back in the day. For years I’ve kept some of their old config files, &c… To use on my own version. But more and more they’ve become broken as things progress ever onward. I was just wondering if anyone knows what happened with them and if they may have moved on to other similar projects?

  • yenguardian@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    15·
    1 year ago

    BunsenLabs itself was a distro that was supposed to be in the spirit of an older discontinued distro, CrunchBang. There was another distro inspired by CrunchBang, CrunchBang++. Not sure exactly how active CB++ is, but there is a version out based on Debian 12, and from what I remember they seem decent and keeping up with Debian at least.

    • LoraxEleven@beehaw.orgOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah! I remember Crunch#. It’s how I found BunsenLabs. Always had really great documentation forums, too. Tried the ++, just liked BunsenLabs better.

    • Neil@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Wow! Haven’t heard the name #! In a very long time. That’s the distro that got me into openbox and then sent me on my tiling window manager path many years ago.

      • LoraxEleven@beehaw.orgOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        #!.. That’s the right symbols! Knew it was something similar. One of my first, as well. Ran Fedora for a short while, then moved to Ubuntu for ~a year, then onto trying my own flavor of stock Debian. #! did such a better job than I could, and then at (or near) the end of#! I found BunsenLabs, which is my overall favorite. Even gave Arch and Gentoo a real effort for a while. Always came back to BunsenLabs. Learned a huge portion of my Linux knowledge from those old #! forums. A true wealth of information there. Really looking forward to giving the new BunsenLabs a tryout when I catch the time.