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Anyone know what happened to the old BunsenLabs distro?

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?

iHUNTcriminals ,

The name rings a bell. Iirc there’s a distro that may have followed in its footsteps.

yenguardian ,
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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 OP ,

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

iHUNTcriminals ,

Oh maybe I had them mixed up.

Neil ,
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    LoraxEleven OP ,

    #!.. 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.

    throwawayish ,

    So they’ve had a major release last year in December. And their official website seems to be up. Though, I only had luck connecting to it through Tor 😅. It’s still active according to Distrowatch. And, honestly, the reader reviews ain’t that bad. I’d say give it a spin and consider reporting back on us 🙂.

    LoraxEleven OP ,

    You’re my damn hero of the day! I haven’t checked their site in years! Maybe should’ve gave it a search before asking… Thank You! I’m definitely gonna try it out! And I’ll definitely let the Linux thread know how it’s going Again, thank you!

    digger ,
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    A lot of the discussion and notes on development happens on their forums.

    LoraxEleven OP ,

    Thank you.

    d3Xt3r , (edited )

    Also, if you’re the bleeding-edge kind, you can always try their beta ISOs. They released a beta of their next major version “Boron” only last week: sourceforge.net/projects/bunsenlabs-releases/

    So it’s definitely still under active development.

    LoraxEleven OP ,

    I was just reading up on that very thing. I may have a chance to try it one evening this week.

    01189998819991197253 ,
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    Bunsen is so lightweight, I use it on my T40. Still around, and still good.

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