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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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Average visitor rating: 8.3/10 from 27 review(s).


BunsenLabs Linux Summary
Distribution BunsenLabs Linux
Home Page https://www.bunsenlabs.org/
Mailing Lists  
User Forums https://forums.bunsenlabs.org
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Documentation --
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Download Mirrors https://www.bunsenlabs.org/installation.html
Bug Tracker https://www.bunsenlabs.org/resources.html#packages-and-bug-reports
Related Websites  
Reviews Boron: GNU/Linux.ch (German)
Lithium: DistrocrunchDistroWatch
Helium: DistroWatch
Deuterium: Dedoimedo
Hydrogen: DistroWatchLinux Insider
Where To Donate, Buy, or Try

Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2024-01-24: Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Boron
 • 2022-12-19: Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Beryllium
 • 2020-08-02: Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Lithium
 • 2018-04-30: Distribution Release: BunsenLabs Linux Helium
 • More BunsenLabs releases...

  Headlines:
 • 2019-12-10 BunsenLabs releases preview of "Lithium"
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  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.
Feature boron-1 beryllium-1 lithium-3
Release Date 2024-01-24 2022-12-19 2021-09-06
End Of Life      
Price (US$) Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 1200-1800 1200-1600 600-1300
Free Download ISO ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop Openbox Openbox Openbox
Package Management DEB (apt) DEB (apt) DEB (apt)
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite LibreOffice LibreOffice LibreOffice
Processor Architecture i686, x86_64 i686, x86_64 i686, x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4 ext3, ext4
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes
Asian Language Support      
Full Package List boron-1 beryllium-1 lithium-3
abiword (3.0.5) -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.11) 1.2.8 1.2.4 1.1.8
amdgpu (23.0.0) 23.0.0 19.1.0 18.1.99
bash (5.2.21) 5.2.15 5.1 5.0
bind (9.18.21) -- -- --
chromium (121.0.6167.139) -- -- --
cups (2.4.7) -- -- --
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.3 4.4.1 4.4.1
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.47.0 1.46.2 1.44.5
firefox (122.0) 115.6.0 102.6.0 78.13.0
freetype (2.13.2) 2.12.1 2.10.4 2.9.1
gcc (13.2.0) -- -- --
gimp (2.10.36) -- -- --
glibc (2.39) 2.36 2.31 2.28
gnome-shell (45.3) -- -- --
gnucash (5.5) -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.56) -- -- --
grub (2.12) -- -- --
gtk (4.12.5) 3.24.38 3.24.24 3.24.5
httpd (2.4.58) -- -- --
inkscape (1.3.1) -- -- --
k3b (23.08.4) -- -- --
kmod (31) 30 28 26
krita (5.2.2) -- -- --
LibreOffice (24.2.0) 7.4.7 7.0.4 6.1.5
linux (6.7.3) 6.1.69 5.10.158 4.19.194
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- -- --
mariadb (11.1.3) -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.26.2) -- -- --
mesa (24.0.0) 22.3.6 20.3.5 18.3.6
mysql (8.3.0) -- -- --
nautilus (45.2.1) -- -- --
NVIDIA (545.29.06) 535.54.03 470.103.01 --
openbox (3.6.1) 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.6.1
openjdk (21.0.2) -- -- --
openssh (9.6p1) 9.2p1 8.4p1 7.9p1
openssl (3.2.1) 3.0.11 1.1.1n 1.1.1d
perl (5.38.2) 5.36.0 5.32.1 5.28.1
php (8.3.2) -- -- --
plasma-desktop (5.27.10) -- -- --
postfix (3.8.5) -- -- --
postgresql (16.1) -- -- --
Python (3.12.1) 3.11.2 3.9.2 3.7.3
qt (6.6.1) 5.15.8 5.15.2 5.11.3
samba (4.19.4) -- -- --
systemd (255.3) 252.19 247.3 241
thunderbird (115.7.0) -- -- --
vim (9.1) 9.0 8.2 8.1
vlc (3.0.20) 3.0.20 3.0.18 3.0.12
wayland (1.22.0) -- -- --
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.11) 21.1.7 1.20.11 1.20.4


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Version: boron-1
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-01-29
Votes: 2


I was pleasantly surprised by this release! Snappier than Beryllium so far and like always with a new twist, nice small selection of great wallpapers to choose from. BLOB don't appear to be buggy this time either because last time when I switched between the themes some of the apps still had the theme from the one I just switched back and forth from.

The only thing I disliked was that by default tint2 is placed to the left side and not at the top, that is a total no, no.. remember your roots! Therefore I'll give it a 9 instead of a 10. ;)

Great job the BL-team! And thank you!


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Version: boron-1
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-28
Votes: 4


This one is not for the faint-hearted. But if you've got some knowledge of Linux, this is the most productive Linux distribution ever.

Stable, because it's based on Debian. Blazingly fast because of the low-resource desktop environment and the well thought out structure by the dev team. Comfortable, because you know there is a dedicated dev team which will allways help you out in a very friendly manner.

I have been using Bunsenlabs (and it's predecessor Crunchbang) for almost two decades now and have never been disappointed.


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Version: beryllium-1
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-25
Votes: 5


I am kind of a distrohopper over all my years with linux. Since 2006 I tried a lot of distros and each one has its cons and pros.

But now I have to say that BunsenLabs Beryllium in my case gets me really fascinated.
It is the first of all distros that recognized my printer (brother) and works with it like plug-and-play.
The other fact is that Bunsenlabs runs pretty fast on my old laptop from 2014 - and I mean really fast.....

And it may be a bit speciell, but I realy like its design!!!!

Thanks a lot for your work and for having absolut no problems with BunsenLabs.


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