I've been looking for a light distro for a while and stumbled upon Crunchbang tonight.
The good:
- On my old Eeepc (with 500 megs of ram and a 8GB SSD drive), it runs VERY smoothly.
- It has the full fledged "apt-get" which makes installing new software simple.
- I can run Songza and Grooveshark (we mostly use this machine for music). In the past, Mint with IceWM was a still too heavy for Songza.
- I can run my periodic java-based cronjobs.
The bad:
- Although the LiveCD worked out of the box, I couldn't select "Install" from the grub menu.
How I fixed it:
- This post: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=19748
- tldr;
- From the grub menu, highlight "Install" and press tab
- Remove all "vesa" arguments.
- Remove the vga=788 argument.
- Add the following: "vga=ask nomodeset or fb=false" at the end of the line.
- Done and done!
Hope this helps!
-Erik
