BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13

BunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 "Trixie" arrived, the project has released its latest version, dubbed Carbon.

This version replaces multiple core components of the BunsenLabs' characteristic and slightly idiosyncratic setup with alternatives that can work on both X11 and the Wayland-based labwc compositor. For now, this version still defaults to Openbox on X.org, but the maintainers are making things ready for a transition to Wayland.

BunsenLabs Linux is the original "community continuation" of the lightweight CrunchBang Linux distro. BunsenLabs was announced in February 2015, just days after CrunchBang called it quits.

The other continuation of CrunchBang is a mainly one-man project by Ben "Computermouth" Young, called CrunchBang++. We compared the two in 2024 when both released their Debian 12-based versions ...