Hignar

As some of you may have noticed I'm developing a slight obsession with Linux and *nix systems in general. It's something that's crept up on me slowly. I first began using Unix at university and soon started wondering about installing it in my my own system.

I started off with Mandriva 8.2 and, maybe somewhat predictably, occidentally wiped the whole hard drive. The second attempt went much more smoothly and I had a nice dual boot system with Mandriva and XP. For whatever reason ...

I stumbled upon this distro quite by accident. The homepage can be found here. Either I wasn't aware of them before or there have been a lot of Ubuntu derivatives popping up recently, or at least they have been getting more attention than previously.

Anyway, crunchbang seems to be focused on performance and I can't really fault it on this front. Using just 170mb of ram when first booted seems pretty good to me. The lack of either gnome or KDE was a little off putting at first ...