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{{Infobox OS
| name                   = LinuxBBQ
| logo                   = [[Image:linuxbbq logo.png|150px]]
| screenshot             = [[File:Linuxbbq elitist scrot.png|300px|Screenshot of LinuxBBQ 'Elitist']]
| caption                = LinuxBBQ 'Elitist'
| website                = [http://linuxbbq.org/ linuxbbq.org]
| developer              = LinuxBBQ-team around Julius Hader (machinebacon)
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==Features==
LinuxBBQ is based on Debian's most modern branch, Sid. There is a homemade collection of tools and scripts to help out with various things, and it has a lightweight browser that is being developed in-house. Certain efforts are made to keep releases (relatively) 'bloat-free', and light-weight.{{cn
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LinuxBBQ's most notable feature{{cn|date=July 2013}} is in the idea of 'Roast Your Own'. What this is means is that you can take whatever Base Edition you like (or whatever release whatsoever), make the changes you want to make (installing certain applications, for example), after which LinuxBBQ allows you to make a snapshot of your system and turn it into a bootable ISO file.

From the About-page on the official website:
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===Installer===
The graphical [[Installation (computer programs)|installation]] can be started directly from live mode, without rebooting. LinuxBBQ can be installed to USB-connected hard disks and [[USB flash drive]]s, as well as to internal [[Hard disk drive|hard disks]].{{cn
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===Updates===
Once LinuxBBQ is installed, it can be kept up-to-date with updates from the Debian Sid and LinuxBBQ repositories. Updates are typically run from command line using [[apt-get]]. Because post and pre install scripts in the Debian packages may restart your display manager during updates and cause conflicts with running userspace applications, it is recommended that users upgrade their system outside of X (i.e. while NOT running the 'GUI').  This is achieved by applying all updates at 'run-level 3'.{{cn|date=July 2013}}

Warnings regarding upgrades are posted in the Upgrade Warnings section of the forum.

===Support===
* The best place to get support for LinuxBBQ is through its forum.
* An IRC channel is available through #linuxbbq on freenode.net

===Packages===
Depending on the release, any available package in Linuxland may be included. One of the aims of LinuxBBQ is not to exclude certain parts of the Linux landscape, and a watchful eye is kept out for more obscure applications.{{cn|date=July 2013}}

==Releases==
LinuxBBQ releases are diverse and many. They come in a couple of different types.{{cn|date=July 2013}}

===Base editions===
The LinuxBBQ Base Editions are releases that may be used as a solid base to build your own system on. These releases often contain only an essential set of applications, leaving ample room for the user to decide what he/she wants to do with the system.

===Special editions===
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==History==
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The grill got first heated up in June 2012 (the exact day has been forgotten), and the official website launched on September 16th. There have been over 40 releases for two architectures in the last 12 months, covering all window managers and desktop environments. LinuxBBQ was the first Debian "unstable" distro to feature the MATE desktop in version 1.4 and 1.6 for both architectures, and the first to feature GNOME3.2; On top of that, they are also the first to feature all available wm/de's on one live ISO, and hold the record of having had the largest radiotray channel list. As if that wasn't enough, they were also the first to have a "Debian unstable" as netinstall image.{{cn|date=July 2013}}

==Software==
LinuxBBQ releases may contain a combination of [[free software]] and [[proprietary software]], with the ultimate goal to make things work.{{cn|date=July 2013}}

==System recommendations==
LinuxBBQ offers a plethora of different releases, some of which are supported for the [[P6 (microarchitecture)|i686]] computer architecture, others for the [[amd64]] computer architecture, and yet others for both.{{cn|date=July 2013}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Free software|Linux}}
* [[List of live CDs]]
* [[List of Linux distributions]]
* [[Comparison of Linux distributions]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://linuxbbq.org/}}
* [http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linuxbbq LinuxBBQ on Distrowatch]

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