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| 2013-02-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Grml 2013.02 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2013.02, a Debian-based live CD with a collection of specialist GNU/Linux software, tools and scripts designed for system administrators: "We just released Grml 2013.02 'Grumpy Grinch'. This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable release ('Wheezy'), provides up-to-date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. New features: ssh boot option - display SSH server key fingerprints; grml-hwinfo - added support for lsscsi, iscsiadm, Proxmox, libvirt, OpenVZ, VServer information retrieval, swapon, mdadm, LVM + dmsetup, now using 'lspci -nn' for lspci output; grml-live - handling firmware related packages in GRMLBASE, added uuid-runtime to GRMLBASE; grml-network - netcardconfig provides support to scan for available wireless networks...." Read the release notes for a list of new features and important changes. Download: grml64-full_2012.05.iso (371MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| About Grml
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| Grml is a bootable CD (live CD) based on Debian GNU/Linux. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators. It also provides automatic hardware detection. Grml can be used as a rescue system, for analysing systems and networks, or as a working environment. Due to on-the-fly decompression, Grml includes about 2 GB of software and documentation on the CD.
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| 2012-05-29 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2012.05 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2012.05, a Debian-based live CD designed for system administrators and users of text tools: "We just released Grml 2012.05 'Ponyhof'. Thanks for all the feedback we received for our 2011.12 release, we took it serious and hope that everyone finds 2012.05 such a wonderful release as we consider it to be. There were some changes between 2012.05-rc1 and the new stable release. The most important ones are: update to Linux kernel 3.3.7; added sysstat (and imvirt-helper was pulled in as dependency); fixed GRUB 2, iPXE and MirOS bsd4grml boot options for 64-bit ISO images; added wallpaper; fixed language boot option for the grml-small flavour." Read the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: grml32-full_2012.05.iso (334MB, SHA1, torrent), grml32-small_2012.05.iso (145MB, SHA1, torrent), grml64-full_2012.05.iso (371MB, SHA1, torrent), grml64-small_2012.05.iso (148MB, SHA1, torrent).
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| 2011-12-23 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2011.12 |
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Ulrich Dangel has announced the release of Grml 2011.12, a Debian-based live CD with an excellent collection of GNU/Linux software and scripts for system administrators: "We have just released Grml 2011.12 'Knecht Rootrecht', just in time to put it under the Christmas tree. There were quite a lot of changes between RC1 and the new stable release. The most important ones are: update to Linux kernel 3.1.6; easier remastering with grml-live and existing Grml ISO images; new GRUB boot theme; syslinux will indicate its boot menu with one beep; GRUB will indicate its boot menu with three beeps; enable all mixer controls at start-up and set volume to 75%; reworked and more flexible GRUB configuration file handling; grml2usb - use the GRUB configuration from the ISO image instead of creating a new one; additional key bindings for Fluxbox; fix keyboard layout bug." See the release announcement and release notes for a full list of changes and new features. Download: grml32_2011.12.iso (315MB, MD5, torrent), grml64_2011.12.iso (348MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2011-05-30 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2011.05 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2011.05, a Debian-based live system featuring a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators and users of text tools: "Grml 2011.05 with code name 'Just Mari', available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32-bit and 64-bit editions, has been released. New features: new Linux kernel version based on 2.6.38.7; initramfs is now XZ compressed (smaller); /run has been introduced. Important changes: iPXE has replaced gPXE; core scripts previously found in grml-scripts are now shipped as grml-scripts-core to facilitate reuse on plain Debian systems; due to popular demand, the Ratpoison window manager is included once again; grml-debootstrap adds the security repository for stable and testing installations; grml-quickconfig will be executed on grml-small...." More technical details can be found in the release notes. Download: grml_2011.05.iso (687MB, MD5, torrent), grml64_2011.05.iso (698MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2011-01-01 |
Distribution Release: Grml 2010.12 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2010.12, a bootable live system based on Debian with a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators: "Grml 2010.12, code name 'Gebrueder' is available. New features: new Linux kernel version based on 2.6.36.2; config-less X to take advantage of X.Org's automatic configuration; support for Kernel Mode Setting (KMS); grml-rescueboot / loopback.cfg feature and grub-imageboot for ISO boot; initial release of Kantan, an automated testing suite for continuous integration and a test environment; incremental grml-rebuildfstab triggered by udev events for faster execution time; improved serial console on multiple devices; vnc_connect boot option allowing to connect to an existing listening VNC client...." Read the rest of the release notes for further details. Download: grml_2010.12.iso (686MB, SHA1), grml64_2010.12.iso (699MB, SHA1).
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| 2010-04-30 |
Distribution Release: grml 2010.04 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of grml, a Debian-based live CD with a large collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators and users of text tools. What's new? "VNC boot option - booting with vnc=yourpassword and the startx boot option automatically starts the VNC service for user 'grml' using graphical remote access with provided password; DMRAID-related boot options - nodmraid to not enable present DMRAID devices, dmraid=on to automatically enable any present DMRAID devices and dmraid=off to actively try to stop any possibly present DMRAID devices; new boot option bootid for improving reliability of boot process; more robust network booting - the boot option ethdevice and its surrounding code has been extended so it is possible to specify multiple devices at once." See the detailed release notes for a complete list of changes and new features. Download: grml_2010.04.iso (690MB, MD5, torrent), grml64_2010.04.iso (700MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2009-10-31 |
Distribution Release: grml 2009.10 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of grml 2009.10, a bootable, Debian-based live CD featuring a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators and users of text tools: "The new stable version 2009.10 was just released. New features: 'vesamenu' bootsplash - provides an easy-to-use boot selection menu; the ISO can be installed to a device directly using dd; integration of Etherboot/gPXE; integration of GRUB; boot option 'nostartx' - if using startx as default boot option the bootoption 'nostartx' disables automatic startup of X; boot option 'ethdevice' - use specified network device for network booting (PXE) instead of default; boot option 'netscript' - use this parameter to download and run a script from a specific location...." Read the detailed release notes for a full list of new features. Download: grml_2009.10.iso (671MB, MD5, torrent), grml64_2009.10.iso (685MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2009-06-01 |
Distribution Release: grml 2009.05 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of grml 2009.05, a Debian-based distribution and live CD featuring a superb collection of GNU/Linux software and scripts designed for users of text tools and system administrators: "grml 2009.05 with codename Lackdose-Allergie, available in flavours grml, grml-medium and grml-small and all of them as 32-bit and 64-bit editions, has been released. New features: boot option persistent - use persistence feature on grml; boot option findiso - dynamic version of boot option isofrom, findiso looks for the specified ISO file on all disks; boot option bsd - boot minimal MirOS BSD operating system; boot option hdt - minimalist hardware detection tool; boot option readonly - mark ALL /dev/[hs]*dX devices as read-only, this is important for forensic investigations; boot option hwspeak - probe all available speakup hardware modules...." Consult the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download: grml_2009.05.iso (682MB, MD5, torrent), grml64_2009.05.iso (699MB, MD5, torrent).
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| 2008-12-02 |
Distribution Release: grml 2008.11 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of grml 2008.11, a Debian-based live CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators: "grml version 2008.11 has been released and is currently being uploaded to the mirrors. What's new? New grml-scripts: grml-chroot - wrapper around chroot with proc/sys/pts/dev file system handling; swspeak-setup - activating software speak(up) features. The grml-live build system: several new packages in the different flavour classes; improved error handling; improved checks for LZMA for different Squashfs tools; automatically activate grml-testing repository for development releases and daily snapshots. Special new features: integration of vcs_info within Zsh prompt; moved from syslog-ng to rsyslog...." Read the full release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: grml_2008.11.iso (674MB, MD5, torrent), grml64_2008.11.iso (694MB, MD5, torrent).
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