Now with the Openbox desktop and SLiM login manager

Nov 28, 2011 11:21 GMT  ·  By

Philip Newborough announced yesterday, November 27th, the immediate availability for download of the CrunchBang Linux 10 R20111125 operating system.

CrunchBang Linux 10 R20111125 is now powered by Linux kernel 2.6.39 and features the Openbox 3.5 desktop instead of the Xfce window manager. Moreover, the SLiM login manager replaced GDM (GNOME Display Manager).

Mozilla Firefox 8 replaces Chromium 9 as the default web browser in CrunchBang Linux 10 R20111125, as well as Geany replaces gedit as the default text editor.

"Yesterday, I made available some updated CrunchBang Statler images. I have made a good number of changes to Statler, probably more than I should have, but the changes were considered and needed to be made in order to progress." - said Philip Newborough in the release announcement.

Among other features we can mention that Gigolo and Thunar were added to manage connections to remote filesystems, D-I preseeding was improved, LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice.org, new repository locations added, and Plymouth was removed.

Download CrunchBang Linux 10 R20111125 right now from Softpedia.