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Grml developer Frank 'ft' Terbeck did great work for grml-zshrc to get better customization options for the zsh prompt. We just uploaded grml-etc-core v0.8.0 to our grml-testing repository and want to mention three blog articles by Frank regarding this new prompt feature:

• Prompt themes for grml
• Appendix to zsh prompt themes in grml
• grml zshrc: More items for prompts

The new grml-etc-core release also provides a rewrite of the way keybindings work. Please consult /usr/share/doc/grml-etc-core/NEWS.Debian.gz for further details regarding the new prompt and keyboard handling. If you notice any problems please report a bug or just show up in #grml on freenode and talk to us.

The german Linux User magazine provides an article about Grml, including an interview with Grml developer Mika and the Grml 2011.12 release shipped on DVD. Grab the Linux User 03/2012 edition while it's fresh! :)

We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common goal instead of creating more diversity.

Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE.

Joining the the Canterbury Project Arch Linux developer Pierre Schmitz explained: "Arch Linux has always been about keeping its technology as simple as possible. Combining efforts into one single distribution will dramatically reduce complexity for developers, users and of course upstream projects. Canterbury will be the next evolutionary step of Linux distributions."

Gerfried Fuchs, who gave a talk about Debian at last year's openSUSE conference, said "While DEX (Debian Derivatives Exchange) might have been a good idea in principle, its point of view is too limited. We need to reach out further for true success."

Robin H. Johnson, lead of the Gentoo Infrastructure team, in a panel of core Gentoo developers at SCALE9x: "I really hate compiling-induced downtime. I've been looking forward to installing packages with just a couple of keystrokes. By building on the efforts of other successful distributions, we can take the drudgery out of system maintenance."

Michael Prokop, founder of the Grml live CD, can be quoted on the effort that "we managed to create a universal live build framework with grml-live. Our vision was always that it will be universally usable to further the spreading of Free Software."

Last year's openSUSE conference had the topic of "Collaboration Across Borders". Klaas Freitag, a respected member of the community, mentioned that "the conference motto was set intentional and actually this is what I had in mind as a positive outcome for the conference."

Please be notified that this announce is just the starting point, the necessary changes will happen in the upcoming days. You can use the #cbproject hashtag to give us your feedback on twitter or identi.ca.

The results of the Grml user survey are available. Thanks to everyone taking part in our survey!

The well known german c't magazine features a special edition of Grml 2010.12 in c't extra Netzwerke 01/2011.

German Linux Magazine 03/11 features Grml 2010.12 on DVD (DELUG version)!

As a result of our Grml developer meeting (see meeting minutes for details) we created a user survey to get more information about our users and their needs. Please take part in our survey and help us to improve and enhance Grml!

Grml release 2010.04 is shipped on the DVD version of the german LinuxUser magazine, edition 07/2010.

The german magazine freiesMagazin provides an article about Grml in its current edition 06/2010. Check out the article in the freely available magazine at www.freiesmagazin.de/freiesMagazin-2010-06.

Now, the Grml project has accounts on both Twitter (@grmlproject) and identi.ca (@grml). They will be used to publish Grml related announcements, news and links. Tips related to Zsh, console programs and Grml itself will be part of the regular posts as well.

The program used to post grml tips is available in ourgit repository. If you have any suggestions for this service or any additional tips and/or packages we should mention feel free to drop us a mail to twitter (at) grml.org or create a bugreport in our bugtracking system.

Now make sure to follow the Grml project ontwitter and/oridenti.ca!

BTW: Grml developers can use these accounts to send announcements & messages as well. For detailed instructions have a look at http://twitter.grml.org.

The famous german c't magazine just released c't extra 03/2009 Netzwerke, a special edition focusing on network stuff. There's an article about network diagnosis using Grml (pages 132-133) and Grml is part of the included the DVD as well. Make sure you grab your own copy!

The current edition (2009/08) of the german LinuxUser magazine provides a four pages article about Grml and ships a special Grml-DVD providing a multiboot setup of grml, grml64 and the grml based juxlala live system including the ISOs of all grml flavours. The DVD provides ISOs based on grml's release 2009.05 including bugfixes which got part of the grml-stable repository since the last release. You can find the german article about grml titled "Chirurgisches Besteck - Live-Werkzeugkasten für die Shell" online as well as part of the community edition PDF. Make sure to grab your own copy of the LinuxUser magazine! :)

The current edition of the well known german Linux Magazin (2009/08) provides grml 2009.05 on the DELUG-DVD.

Especially on grml64 we are running out of space and we are thinking about removing LaTeX from grml, which would save us 100MB of uncompressed space. We're talking about the following Debian packages:

auctex catdvi ctioga dvipng gnuhtml2latex lacheck latex-beamer latexmk latex-mk latextug latex-xcolor libkpathsea4 libtioga-ruby libtioga-ruby1.8 pdfjam pgf preview-latex-style tetex-bin tex-common texify texlive texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-extra-utils texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-lang-german texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texpower tth vim-latexsuite

We'd like to know your opinion on this issue, so please let us know your opinion through the removal of LaTeX on grml poll.