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.
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.
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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
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New features:
· EFI Boot support from CD-ROM and USB keys (amd64 only)
· mDNS support (try ping grml.local with libnss-mdns and avahi-daemon or similar enabled on your host)
· NFS Client support and d-bus start automatically
· grml-debootstrap, the tool of choice to install Debian, can now directly build virtual machine images.
· grml-live, our build tool, was enhanced with new features to better integrate with Jenkins. This release, as well as the current daily images are built from within Jenkins!
Important Changes:
· Z-Shell configuration has been cleaned up. Quite a few functions have been removed from the default configuration.
· X11 environment has been downsized as well. The window manager is now fluxbox. idesk has been removed, all available software is now reachable from the fluxbox menu.
· The accessibility support now consists of shipping standard speakup and enabling sound during boot. A new beep sequence (4 tones) is sounded just before the quickconfig menu starts. The isolinux menu will beep once, and the grub menu will beep three times. (The accessibility boot options have been removed.)
· iSCSI Target is now provided by LIO. The configuration tool targetcli is included.
· xterm now uses the Terminus font, like the VT consoles.
· Virtual Machines automatically get the "noprompt" behaviour.
· Ancient config files and examples have been removed from grml-etc(-core).
· Ancient scripts have been removed from grml-scripts(-core).
· Anonymous stats are collected during boot up. This includes: Grml release name, boot media type (local or remote), a random string, used boot option keys (no values) and if your CPU is 64bit-capable. You can turn this off with the nostats boot option.
Bits & bolts:
· Modem support has been removed from grml-network
· VT consoles are driven by grml-runtty, our homegrown login and getty replacement for Live CDs.
· Netboot scenarios should no longer use the "nodhcp" boot option.
· grml2hd is no longer in PATH to discourage its use even further. The related boot options have been removed.
· grml2usb: compat for releases < 2009.05, grub1 and lilo support have been removed.
· Release builds are now built from Debian's testing distribution, instead of unstable.
· Linux kernel is based on 3.1.6. No additional modules are shipped.
· Fixed several bugs from the bug tracking system.
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