Help:Distros and DEs using Openbox

From Openbox

Any distro can have Openbox added. The following are released with Openbox.

Contents 1 Desktop environments 2 LXDE-based Distributions 3 Distributions that ship with Openbox 4 Wikipedia

Desktop environments

• LXDE

LXDE-based Distributions

• Knoppix
• Lubuntu (in development)
• Debian Lenny (LXDE version available)
• Fedora 12 LXDE spin

Distributions that ship with Openbox

• Arch - Highly popular, with great community support and wiki regarding Openbox
• PCLinuxOS - Well regarded with special attention paid to Openbox and LXDE.
• Crunchbang - Ubuntu based. Popular following, EEE PC version ("CrunchEEE"). Irregular releases. See also crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/adding_crunchbang_features_in_another_distro
• Slitaz
• TinyMe
• CRUX
• Boxpup, Puppy Linux with Openbox (not actively developed?)
• SimpleLinux mini (sub 90 MB version) - may also be included as alternative WM in the next EXT version (which has XFCE as default). SimpleLinux is a Malaysion distro, derived from Slackware & Slax. www.simplelinuxdistro.co.cc
• Ubuntu - Generally has an out of date version, and with no Ubuntu-specific maintainer to ensure things work "out of the box".
• Slackware - Openbox exists as a "Slackbuild"[1] (SlackBuilds.org is a community supported project... A SlackBuild build script contains the build instructions and a source download link for building a particular package for your system.)

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia has a comparison of Linux distributions[2]. Click right hand column to sort, and find distros with Openbox or LXDE by default.