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|  Latest News and Updates | | | | 2018-04-30 | NEW • Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Helium | 
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| BunsenLabs Linux is a Debian-based distribution which features the Openbox window manager as the default graphical user interface. The project has released BunsenLabs Linux Helium, which is based on Debian 9 Stretch. "The visual appearance has been worked over with new GTK+ themes, the Paper icon theme with a few custom additions, and new wallpaper images based on 'Beam' by Rashad Mohammed. We also have new default Conky and Geany themes. There are some preset graphic theming collections accessible via the BLOB accessory. The menu has been worked over and improved in some places. Under the hood, many small improvements have been made, for example calls to gksu, which is insecure, are replaced with pkexec. The default package list has been adjusted and some useful system tools added. The former CrunchBang audio mixer, pnmixer, has returned. PulseAudio configuration tweaks previously needed have been removed. Qt 5 GTK+ 2 theme support has been added. The boot menu now has 'Boot in CLI' and 'Rescue' options." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: bl-Helium_amd64+build2.iso (1,096MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). | |
| About BunsenLabs | | BunsenLabs Linux is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop. The BunsenLabs distribution is based on Debian's Stable branch and is a community continuation of the CrunchBang Linux distribution. |
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| Recent Related News and Releases | | 2026-02-27 | Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Carbon | | John Raff has announced the release of BunsenLabs Linux Carbon, a new major update of the project's lightweight distribution with a customised Openbox window manager, now based on Debian 13. This release brings support for the Wayland display server: "The BunsenLabs team is happy to announce our latest release, BunsenLabs Carbon. Based on Debian 'Trixie', Carbon has had many improvements, including a new desktop appearance and assistance (coming soon) for users who want to experiment with Wayland. The BunsenLabs Session is now able to launch Wayland sessions, if the necessary apps and configurations are provided. In the near future a 'plugin' metapackage will be available to add a base Wayland session to a BL Carbon system. Several core apps have been changed to ones that support Wayland as well as X11, or make applying themes simpler. picom configurations have been substantially updated to use the current picom, which now needs 3D acceleration and openGL. A wrapper script has been added for pkexec under Wayland, and sudoedit is now used to edit files as root. A 'bl-menu' command has been added so a menu can be started from the same launcher regardless of running on X11 or Wayland." See the release announcement and the release notes for further details. Download: carbon-1-260211-amd64.hybrid.iso (2,174MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). | | | 2024-01-24 | Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Boron | | John Raff has announced the release of BunsenLabs Linux Boron, a major new release of the project's lightweight, Debian-based distribution featuring a customised Openbox window manager. This is the project's first build based on Debian 12: "The BunsenLabs team are pleased to announce the release of BunsenLabs Boron. Based on Debian 'Bookworm', this is the best BunsenLabs so far, in our opinion. Some of the new features are: a beautiful graphical user interface by our graphics team, taking Juliette Taka's Debian Emerald wallpaper as a starting point, windows have round corners, the menu has icons and the panel is vertical, as usual, all these details are easily adjusted to users' preferences; alternative GUI themes are easily selected from our BLOB utility, under 'User Preferences' in the menu, there is a dark Boron theme with red highlights, a horizontal panel and no menu icons, users who liked earlier BunsenLabs themes can easily switch to the Beryllium, Lithium, Helium or other desktops; an optional utility will monitor package upgrades and inform the user if any are available; various bugs and annoyances have been fixed throughout the system." Read the release announcement and the release notes for further information. Download (SHA256, pkglist): boron-1-240123-amd64.hybrid.iso (1,719MB, signature, torrent), boron-1-240124-i386.hybrid.iso (1,246MB, signature, torrent). | | | 2022-12-19 | Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Beryllium | | John Raff has announced the release of BunsenLabs Linux Beryllium, a major update of the project's lightweight, Debian-based distribution with an Openbox window manager as the preferred user interface. Beryllium is the project's first version based on Debian 11: "The BunsenLabs team is happy to announce the release of BunsenLabs Beryllium, based on Debian 'Bullseye'. Here are some features: a handsome 'Dragon' black theme - if you're not used to dark themes, give Dragon a few days and you might appreciate it more; the BLOB utility helps you to to quickly switch to another set of theme configuration; the jgmenu menu has been refreshed and the search facility might now be more useful; the Welcome script will check for missing Debian apt sources (eg. after offline install) and offer to add them; also in the Welcome script, an offer to check for missing firmware and install; BLOB, conky and tint2 utilities improved, and various tweaks and bug fixes applied elsewhere; the documentation still needs work, but some bunsenLabs help files have been added or improved." Read the release announcement and the release notes for more information and known issues. Download (SHA256, pkglist): beryllium-1-amd64.hybrid.iso (1,511MB, signature, torrent), beryllium-1-i386.hybrid.iso (1,231MB, signature, torrent). | | | 2020-08-02 | Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Lithium | | The BunsenLabs development team has announced the release of BunsenLabs Linux Lithium, a major new version from the project that offers a lightweight and customisable Linux distribution based on Debian's "stable" branch and featuring the Openbox window manager: "BunsenLabs Linux is pleased to announce Lithium, the latest release of our Debian stable (currently 'Buster') derivative. Core components include the Openbox window manager, tint2, a highly configurable panel, and jgmenu - a menu replacement for the Openbox menu, featuring menu auto-updating when new applications are installed and type-to-search for finding apps in the menu. Some major features of BunsenLabs Lithium: new dark default theme, featuring custom-colored Papirus icons; more modularity and flexibility, eg. the BunsenLabs session can coexist with a default Openbox or Xfce session; Openbox can be replaced with another window manager and keep BunsenLab's auto-started apps, menu and key bindings...." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download (SHA256, signature, pkglist): lithium-1-amd64.hybrid.iso (1,219MB, signature, torrent), lithium-1-cd-i386.hybrid.iso (651MB, signature, torrent). | | |
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