is an unmaintained Linux distribution derived from Debian by Philip Newborough (who is more commonly known by his username, corenominal).

[3] Philip Newborough announced on 6 February 2015 that he had stopped developing CrunchBang and that users would benefit from using vanilla Debian.

[8] In May 2013 Jim Lynch of desktoplinuxreviews.com reviewed CrunchBang 11: Frankly, it’s one of the most functional and efficient distros available today.

It’s a perfect choice for anyone who prefers functionality over form....These days it seems that lots of distros and other operating systems are adding tons of glitz and glitter to desktop interfaces.

[12]Newborough announced in February 2015 that he was abandoning further development of CrunchBang Linux, feeling that it no longer served a purpose.

[13] Many users disagreed, and a number of them proceeded to develop successor distributions BunsenLabs, CrunchBang++ (#!++) and CrunchBang-Monara.

[20] BunsenLabs is one of the few modern Debian-based live distributions that still offers a CD edition supporting 32-bit systems, with both the X Window System and a modern version of Firefox, making the distro useful for running on old computers with just around 1 GB of RAM.