Thursday, August 18. 2005
grml in the press: linux-user 09.2005 Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) grml in the press: linux-user 09.2005grml is mentioned in the article "Wechsel zur Zsh - Shell plusplus" by Simon Kölsch in the current edition [09.2005] of the german magazine "Linux-User". Great! :-) The article is about the Zsh. grml and zsh-lovers are mentioned on page 89 (quoting, german only - sorry): [...] Eine hervorragende Quelle für weitere Informationen bietet die deutschsprachige Zsh-Liebhaber-Seite von Michael Prokop und Mattias Kopfermann. Hier finden sich viele Beispiele für die tägliche Arbeit sowie zahlreiche weiterführende Links. Michael Prokop ist auch der Projektleiter der Linux-Live-CD GRML, welche die Zsh als Default-Shell verwendet. Das kleinere, englischsprachige Projekt Zsh-Lovers sammelt Beispiele zu den in der Man-Page beschriebenen Funktionen und stellt sie als Zsh-Lovers-Manpage zur Verfügung. [...] Monday, August 15. 2005booting grml via firewiregrml boots via firewire. Thanks to Martin Buchleitner for helping me to locate the problem, now we will officially support booting grml via firewire starting with the upcoming release(s). BTW: I renamed the 'usb'-cheatcode to scandelay and slightly improved it. Now it's possible to add a delay of some seconds to the boot sequence so the modules in the initrd have enough time to access the devices. Currently scandelay uses a default of 10 seconds, using a parameter makes it more flexible - e.g. scandelay=3 will add a delay of only 3 seconds. Monday, August 15. 2005grml and bootchartI just booted grml via a new bootparam called 'bootchart' inspired by an article on debian-administration.org. To generate the picture you will have to save /var/log/bootchart.tgz and copy it to the same location on a system where bootchart-view is available. As you can see in the picture it takes 54 seconds to boot the grml(-large).iso via CD-ROM using default options on my laptop. Monday, August 8. 2005
release-decisions, packaged ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) release-decisions, packaged kexec-tools and several updatesWe decided to release grml 0.5 as soon as the config-framework is "finished" (I'm still working on it). In the meanwhile kernel 2.6.13 should be released. 2.6.12-grml is working quite well on grml-small, (the still unreleased) grml-usb and grml(-large). SMP is causing some troubles with cpufreq and ACPI :-(( - so it will be deactivated in the next release. BTW: Tobias is doing a great job with packaging udev (currently version 0.065) for the grml-system, thanks to him! Yesterday I packaged kexec-tools so we can test it with 2.6.13 as soon it is available. As usual it's available in the grml-repos. Yesterday I wrote a small script named grml2usb to install a grml-iso to an usb-stick. The script should work on any linux-system and reduces the necessary manual steps. Testing and feedback welcome! Several updates, bugfixes and improvements have taken place in grml-autoconfig, grml-scripts and grml-etc. And I just implemented the bootoption 'startx' so grml can boot directly into the X window system using grml-x. |
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