[vox] Reminder: LUGOD meeting tonight (Mon Apr 15): "Introduction to CrunchBang Linux: The Best Distro You've Never Heard Of"

[Chris Evans]

I may show for this, I always a sucker for new distros :) 
Crunch bang, a funny name 

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On Apr 15, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

> 
> Reminder: The Linux Users' Group of Davis meets tonight, Monday April 15th,
> 7pm-9pm at the public library in Davis (315 East 14th Street; Blanchard room).
> 
> Our guest speaker will be Larry Cafiero, who will present
> "Introduction to CrunchBang Linux: The Best Distro You've Never Heard Of":
> 
>  http://www.lugod.org/meeting/
> 
> 
> Maps/directions:
> 
>  http://lugod.org/meeting/library/
> 
> 
> Details:
> 
> CrunchBang Linux, a Debian-based distro which features the Openbox
> window manager, is highly customisable and provides a modern,
> full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance. Put
> simply; CrunchBang could be thought of as a layer built on top of
> Debian, specifically to provide a great Openbox experience.
> 
> Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with
> extensive standards support, which lets you bring the latest
> applications outside of a full desktop environment. Most modern
> applications have been written with GNOME and KDE in mind. With
> support for the latest freedesktop.org standards, as well as careful
> adherence to previous standards, Openbox provides an environment where
> applications work the way they were designed to.
> 
> About the Speaker:
> 
> Larry Cafiero is a long-time Free/Open Source Software advocate who is
> currently a CrunchBang evangelist. Larry writes the "Larry the Free
> Software Guy" and "Larry the CrunchBang Guy" blogs, and is one of the
> co-founders of the Felton Linux Users Group. He also serves as the
> publicity chairperson for the Southern California Linux Expo.
> 
> He lives in Felton, California, on the ocean side of the small
> mountain ridge that separates the Silicon Valley from the Pacific
> Ocean, where he works as a newspaper editor for the Santa Cruz
> Sentinel when he's not consulting small businesses on use of FOSS
> programs for his company, Redwood Digital Research.
> 
> 
> -- 
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer
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