grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection.

You can use grml for example as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you don't even need a harddisk to run it.

Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2 GiB of software and documentation on the CD.

Here are some key features of "grml":

· distribution for users of text tools and sysadmins
· debian and knoppix based distribution [use existing infrastructure]
· usability for visually handicapped people right out of the box
· small and geeky community

grml provides more than 1900 software packages. Excluding library stuff still more than 1400 packages remain. We don't ship KDE and OpenOffice but more than 700 packages Knoppix does not provide.

grml provides several scripts und utils which make live easier. zsh is configured with the completion mechanism. grml-x is a wrapper for using the X window system.

People from VC Graz for example can get a PPTP tunnel via calling the script grml-pptp-vcgraz (enter username and password - that's it!). Writing config files on the readonly filesystem is possible via running the script grml-bind.

What's New in This Release:

· Several improved, updated and extended configuration files; new grml-scripts: arename.pl - rename audio files by looking at a file's tagging information, grml-live - build framework based on FAI for generating a grml and Debian-based Linux live system, grml-paste - command line interface for paste.grml.org, grml-vnet - create persistent tun/tap devices with bridge handling; new boot parameters: micvol - configure mixer / volume settings of microphone channel, lvm - activate present logical volumes (LVM), nolvm - completely disable LVM code/checks....