Monday, June 27. 2005
kernel 2.6.12-grml up and running Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) kernel 2.6.12-grml up and runningRelease 0.4-1d is running here with kernel 2.6.12-grml now. The patchset includes: iteraid.allinone Kernel 2.6.12-grml and several modules are available online. Sunday, June 26. 2005packaged heirloom-sh
I just packaged heirloom-sh - a portable variant
of the traditional Unix shell.
It has been derived fromOpenSolaris code
and thus implements the SVR4/SVID3 level of the shell.
As usual it's available in the grml-repos, feedback welcome. Saturday, June 25. 2005
new grml-autoconfig, several other ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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I uploaded the new grml-autoconfig-framework to the grml-repos. The configuration itself (/etc/grml/autoconfig) provides documentation, some more docs might follow. Now grml-firefox is a seperate package for /etc/skel/.mozilla which provides a preconfigured firefox-environment with some useful extensions (new added: ShowIP and ConQuery). Several other updates as usual in grml-etc, grml-scripts,...
BTW: The current snapshot of grml-small (grml 50MB-ISO) works quite well so far (running with kernel 2.6.12-grml), I'm locking forward to be able to publish it soon. grml-usb (grml ~240MB-ISO) is also coming closer. Please let me know which software you would like to see in grml-usb! Tuesday, June 21. 2005delayed grml-smallI decided to delay grml-small for a few days. A "light version" of kernel 2.6.12-grml is already part of the grml-small-ISO. I now want to include the new grml-autoconfig framework and therefore I need some more time. Sorry for that, but expect a rocking grml-small. ;-) Tuesday, June 21. 2005kernel 2.6.12-grmlA first public version of Kernel 2.6.12-grml is available. It includes support for reiser4, vesafb-tng, squashfs, mppe/mppc and iteraid: mika@grml ~ % uname -a The debian-package plus several modules built against 2.6.12-grml are available online. I'm working on a (better) framework for the grml-kernel (using dpatch+debian/...). Expect to find broken-out (d)patches and some more information on grml.org/kernel-devel/ soon. Feedback and help welcome! Friday, June 17. 2005grml-autoconfig revisitedI just worked on grml-autoconfig which is a seperate package since 5th of June. I split grml-autoconfig into a shellscript-library, an init-file and a configuration file. Now it's possible to de-/activate the modules of grml-autoconfig without touching the source itself. As an example: % cat /etc/grml/autoconfig.config [...] CONFIG_DISCOVER=no CONFIG_HWINFO=yes CONFIG_HOTPLUG_AGENT=yes CONFIG_HOTPLUG_BLACKLIST=yes CONFIG_HOTPLUG=yes I'll add the functionality to grml2hd so you will be able to decide on your own what parts you would like to use on a harddisk installation of grml. I'll do some more testing and will upload the new grml-autoconfig-system to the pool then. Friday, June 17. 2005
grml in the german linux magazine Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) grml in the german linux magazineAK gave me a hint that grml is part of the german 'Linux-Magazin' (edition 07/05) for people with the DELUG-subscription. Very nice! Now I'll try to get such an edition which contains a grml 0.4 CD. :-) Quoting the linux-magazine: Service für DELUG-Mitglieder: Linux-Magazin-Monats-CDGrml 0.4: Die Live-CD enthält 2200 ausgewählte Softwarepakete (entpackt: 2 GByte) für Sysadmins und Fans der Textkonsole. Die Distribution basiert auf Knoppix und Debian, bootet mit ausgeklügelter Hardware-Erkennung, verzichtet aber auf KDE und Gnome und konzentriert sich auf Kommandozeilenwerkzeuge. Sunday, June 12. 2005grml: small editionInspired by Marc Haber's posting in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc I was working on a small-ISO variant of grml in the last few days. The ISO will fit on a business-card-CD. Thanks to Marc for his feedback! Finally I've a 53MB grml-ISO. I'll do some more testing in the next few days and will put the ISO online at the next weekend (~19th of june) if everything works as intended. JFYI: I'm working on the usb-stick variant as well, stay tuned. ;-) Thursday, June 9. 2005
The Linux sdparm utility (update) Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) The Linux sdparm utility (update)I just packaged sdparm (because the .deb on the homepage is generated by alien ;-)): The sdparm utility outputs and in some cases modifies SCSI device parameters. When the SCSI device is a disk, sdparm's role is similar to its Linux namesake: hdparm which is for ATA disks that usually have device names starting with "hd". More generally sdparm can be used to output and modify parameters on any device that uses a SCSI command set. Apart from SCSI disks, such devices include CD/DVD drives (irrespective of transport), SCSI and ATAPI tape drives and SCSI enclosures. http://sg.torque.net/sg/sdparm.html Update: Tomas Fasth made an ITP [bug #312580], so you'll find it in Debian soon. Thursday, June 9. 2005
shish - the diet shell (update) Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) shish - the diet shell (update)I just packaged shish: shish is a shell language interpreter and an interactive command line interpreter. This shell aims at being very small and doing its tasks in efficient ways (and not through 100 abstraction layers), which is mainly done by using the dietlibc and libowfat libraries and by design considerations according to Fefe's excellent howto. shish will be a POSIX compatible shell language interpreter according to the IEEE P1003.2 Draft 11.2 by its 1.0 release. As usual you can find the package in the grml-repos. Update: I just made the ITP (intend to package) [bug #312660]. Thursday, June 9. 2005
dupmerge: reclaim disk space by ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) dupmerge: reclaim disk space by linking identical files togetherI just packaged dupmerge 1.5: This is a utility that scans a UNIX directory tree looking for pairs of distinct files with identical content. When it finds such files, it deletes one file to reclaim its disk space and then recreates its path name as a link to the other copy. The first version of this program circa 1993 worked by computingMD5 hashes of every file, sorting the hashes and then looking for duplicates. This worked, but it was unnecessarily slow. The comparison function I use now stops comparing two files as soon as it determines their lengths are different, which is a win when you have many large files with unique lengths. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dupmerge/ As usual you can find the package in the grml-repos. Feedback welcome. Monday, June 6. 2005
grml configuration framework Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) grml configuration frameworkI put the new grml devel release (grml 0.4-1) online today, as already mentioned it includes mainly some bugfixing, updates and new packages. What I'm currently working on is a configuration framework. grml 0.5 should provide a well documented and smart way of handling all the configuration stuff. I wrote down what I'm planning to provide with grml 0.5: grml.org/config/ - feedback is - as usual - welcome. Friday, June 3. 2005
updated dmraid available, some more ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) updated dmraid available, some more packages...I just packaged dmraid so we have an up2date version on grml. As usual you can get it via the grml-repos. grml-x isn't part of grml-scripts anymore but got it's own package. ddclient, fish, mondo, multi-aterm, splint, vifm and some more packages are also part of grml now. On the weekend I'll put a new develrelease for beta-testers and grml developers online. There won't be really new features but just some bugfixes and updated and new packages. |
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