For the last couple of days, whenever I've tried to go to the ArchBang forum, I get the Heart Internet page, telling me they own the domain?
I wonder if Mr Green, has forgotten to re-subscribe, or whether after all of these years he's let it go...?
Maybe if someone here has his email address they could contact him with regard to this?
"Archbang is no more". See here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/archbang/blog/2018/01/no-more-archbangorg/
(https://sourceforge.net/p/archbang/blog/2018/01/no-more-archbangorg/)
Posted by Mr. Green 15 hours ago.
Best regards.
I understand that arch-bang switched to artix and mr.greene is here to help artix
He also published a last version of arch-bang with systemd, so people who wanted to go to arch with openbox as it was set in arch-bang they could have gone that-a-way.
So that makes some of us openbox-ers Artix-bang-ers?
rEvolution in linux I tell ya!
ohhh... and that link all it says that the web-site arch-bang will soon stop to exist to save money for the developer. It will use sf from now on to any future editions, bugs, questions, etc.
Is there anything in the *bang distros that is actually OS/distro dependent? I thought most of it was actual wm and .config files, nothing that couldn't be slapped on top of most modern distros. I remember crunchbang gained quite a following because it looked good out of the box and it was preconfigured, but that has the potential to be replicated using custom packages, not necessarily using a full distro that requires a lot of maintenance on the part of the distro creators.
If I remember correctly, Archbang maintained openrc builds for years so there was that at least.
He just said that "archbang.org" is no more not that Archbang is no more. He will be probably continue working on archbang but just don't maintain archbang.org anymore...
Since archbang is artix based, I would not mind mrgreen doing his stuff on artix forums in dedicated subforum.
With one exception, my dear Artoo. Would there be systemd discussion in that subforum?
It is like saying we are liberal people, and we can allow a little room for neo-nazis to organize here, no problem.
Is it an extreme analogy? Your call!
I don't see a reason for systemd discussion.
Afaik, archbang defaulted to openrc and artix repos.
Its just an offer instead of using SF, no more, no less.
I hope that Mr Green takes you up on that artoo.
Most likely he did it because of trademark infringement
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Arch-based_distributions
Expect a new name for that distro
https://sourceforge.net/projects/archbang/?source=directory
Their is only a systemd ISO, on sourceforge to download.
Last week when I looked there was an artix based iso and a systemd/arch iso
The second had 40 times more interest and downloads than the first, which seems to have been removed.
Basically we are talking about an artix and an arch iso with openbox and all the custom openbox work that mr.Greene and his predecessors had worked on. So if one would be interested in installing arch and likes openbox, arch-bang is a good place to start. It is like miyo-linux and vuu-do for Devuan.
Out of respect for the chronic arch-bang user who didn't want to move to artix, mr.Greene provided two alternative paths. We may not like the second path but it provides continuity for an obsolete project, unlike those that announce they are shutting down and there is no option for the user who may have messed up a previous installation and wants a base to transfer all their custom work on.
Arch-Bang I believe had closed down a couple of years ago and mr.Greene took over where the previous people left it at.
Unfortunately Mr Green has tried and tried to give up Archbang for a long time, his passion for the project stops him at the last moment, Now he has the chance to step back and let someone else with the same passion take over. Will he will he hell, and I don't blame him try to keep up all your good work Mr Green. :)
As I remember it - the guy (I can't remember his name, a Canadian I think?) that was running ArchBang & decided for whatever reason that he had to walk away, did so, & Mr Green stepped in & took over. From memory that would have been in ~2008 or 9.
Re. ArchBang & its uses - for me it was a quicker way to install Arch, which once installed I used to completely customise to suit myself. Much the same as I did with Artix (as I hadn't noticed I could have just done a base install... ;) ).
@mandog, Maybe Mr Green is in the process of letting ArchBang go. I wouldn't blame him, after all of these years of doing such a fine job, I think that he's due for long service leave. If no one else steps in to fill his shoes, then so be it.
@handyYes it has really become a chore after all this time and his private life has often had to take a back seat,
It is pure passion on his part.