News
Apr 29, 2015 - Release Day
Apr 28, 2015 - Jessie is out!
It’s been a few days but Jessie is out! This is good news. The final version ofcbpp will be made available soon. There will be an update here when asolidworking version is released. As well as an update to the download page. Until then see more up to date news on reddit.
Apr 25, 2015 - Metapackage for Migrators
- A metapackage has been built for those of you who might wish to use the desktop configs while on a pre-existing install like #! Waldorf, stock Debian, or possibly even Ubuntu.
- The repo has been fully stocked with all the most recent versions of the packages.
Apr 16, 2015 - Moving Over to Jekyll
This is site is now being built in jekyll. This should make loading a lot faster.No other functionality difference at this time. Updates will be displayed the same way however you can now subscribe to them for your RSS feeds.
Mar 2, 2015 - Theme Changes
Feb 25, 2015 - New Subreddit and Repo/Package Testing
- I started a subreddit, a few people have reached out in the interest of a unifieddiscussion forum.Check it out!
- Repo Testing
- If anyone is familiar with customizing reddit, feel free to post/make suggestions
Feb 25, 2015 - Finalizing Packages
- All the packages are building, the repo is functioning, all thatremains is testing. Once all the deployments of local packages are verifiedworking, everything will start getting moved to packages.crunchbangplusplus.org.
Feb 23, 2015 - Squishin Bugs
- Lots of progress made on theGit repo today.
- Things are really coming together. If I can stay on track, release client should ready to go inside the next week or two.
- Side note, now taking submissions for new wallpapers! The default fabric tile will stay in place, but if you’ve got an artistic hand: submit a pullrequest on the wallpaper repo, send an email tocomputermouth[at]crunchbangplusplus.org, or reach me on twitter@computermouth.
Feb 22, 2015 - Repo is Up
- Officially working with 4096-bit gpg signing! There’s currentlyonly one package available, but once the cbpp-* packages become stable and function properly, we’ll be all set for distribution!
Feb 19, 2015 - general Bug Fixes
- Userspace initialization fixes underway.
- Dropped a few packages: cb-fortune and cb-wmhacks(still investigatingthe possibility of alternatives).
Feb 18, 2015 - Github Changes
- We’re going to be shuffling around some of the files on theGitHub repo.Specifically, moving each package to its own repo as we go through them. Fornow, if you’re committing to a package that’s in CBPP/cbpp, keep committingthere until it’s moved into it’s own.
- Why are they being moved? –In short, poor planning. Also, I’m changing thebuild format used for the packages and the file changes are drastic enoughto where the file size for a singular repo will quickly be exploding. So we’regetting ahead of it here early.
- The first separated repo is hereCBPP/cbpp-configs, thanks tonfultz, the newconfigs keep the terminal references agnostic, so you’re free to change your default to whicheverterminal you desire with significantly less configuration!
- cb-configs (now cbpp-configs) moved to its own repo and changed to acknowledgenew theme and icons with their new names.
- crunchbang-icon-theme (with contents of faenza-crunchbang-icon-theme) nowmoved to its own repo named cbpp-icon-theme.
Feb 17, 2015 - Now With SSL
- We’ve implemented an SSL certificate to provide HTTPS by default. Thanks toGregory Tomko atGlobalSign for the recommendation and setup help.
Addressing Some Controversy
Today I reached out to Philip Newborough – corenominal – creator of theoriginal #!. There has been some community concern expressed that the project’sname encroaches upon the original and that our teaser banner might be foundoffensive.
Corenominal responded:
I think there has been some confusion somewhere, I love the image and I have no problem with you using the CrunchBang++ name. I wish you all the best with the project and I hope it’s a huge success for you.
To clarify, no pain, love the image, love the name.
Keep rockin’
Feb 16, 2015 - How to Help
- TONS of people have been asking about how to help! Be sure to check out ourgithub repos bugs or suggestions via the ‘issues’ button.
- Git officionados should obviously feel welcome to clone the repo and have a look around.And obviously be sure to submit a pull request if you have any fixes.
Feb 15, 2015 - The Day the Crunch Stood Still
- Beta released!
- Primary public response has been incredibly supportive, thank you for your comments via twitter and reddit!
So what’s next?
- Cleaning! The packages on github and the .iso were solely intendedto provide a proof-of-concept. As such, there’s quite a bit ofincorrect information in them (maintainer, descriptions, licences).
- Our immediate plans for the future are to iron out some of the remaining issues in the distro (ideally before the impending official Jessie launch).The goal is to have a release client with no known bugs around April or May so that when Jessie becomes the new stable, we’ll be able to just run our build script,host, and enjoy!
- 64-bit version.
- A repo! Linux is about sharing and bettering the community, not only wouldour own repo give us the venue for updates within the distro, but also giveaccess to our new set of packages for those on other distros who might liketo experience the #!++ meta.
- Once we get to a fully functional release, then our plan is to updatesome of the nonessentials (new cb-welcome with more current options, new cb-pipemenus, new themes/backgrounds etc.)
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