Grml Blog

For the last 16 years (since 2008!) we hosted our own Git infrastructure and had a mirror of our Git repositories at GitHub.com.

While running your own infrastructure clearly has its benefits, it also requires maintenance efforts, for which we no longer really have the workforce nor enjoyment we used to have. We also appreciate the social effects you get from platforms like GitHub. We therefor decided to switch to GitHub as our primary Git hosting place. Over the last days, we migrated from git.grml.org to github.com by putting according URL rewrites into place.

We also used to host our own DokuWiki for more than 19(!) years. In the last few years we didn't have any actual wiki changes, so we decided to also migrate this over to GitHub, and also there put according URL rewrites into action.

Now all our Grml Git repositories can be found at github.com/grml, and our Wiki is available at github.com/grml/grml/wiki/.

If you should notice any problems with any of our services, please reach out.

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian trixie. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2024.02.

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Thanks to everyone contributing to Grml and this release, stay healthy and happy Grml-ing!

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming version 2024.02, code-named 'Glumpad'!

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian trixie. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

For detailed information about the changes between 2022.11 and 2024.02(-rc1) have a look at the official release announcement.

Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and rely on, and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of February 2024.

Wow, how time flies! 20 years ago grml.org was registered by Mika, and in 2004 we had our first public Grml release. 🥳

We're glad about such a wonderful community and are celebrating this with a small Easter egg in our Grml daily ISOs! 😜

And now for another 20 years? 🤓

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian bookworm. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2022.11.

Grab the latest Grml ISO(s) and spread the word!

Thanks to everyone contributing to Grml and this release, stay healthy and happy Grml-ing!

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming version 2022.11, code-named 'MalGuckes'!

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian bookworm. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

For detailed information about the changes between 2021.07 and 2022.11(-rc1) have a look at the official release announcement.

Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and rely on, and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of November 2022.

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian bullseye. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2021.07.

Grab the latest Grml ISO(s) and spread the word!

Thanks to everyone contributing to Grml and this release, stay healthy and happy Grml-ing!

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming version 2021.07, code-named 'JauKerl'!

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian bullseye. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

For detailed information about the changes between 2020.06 and 2021.07(-rc1) have a look at the official release announcement.

Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and rely on, and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of July 2021.

You might have heard about the Freenode IRC drama, and after more than 17 years of #grml on Freenode, it's time to say goodbye.

We decided to move our IRC to irc.oftc.net, so please join us at #grml over there.

Thanks for the many years of great service to Freenode, thanks OFTC for hosting us!

Long time no see, but there we are - we just released Grml 2020.06 - Ausgehfuahangl!

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA bullseye). As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2020.06.

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Thanks everyone, stay healthy and happy Grml-ing!

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming version 2020.06, code-named 'Ausgehfuahangl'!

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA bullseye). As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

For detailed information about the changes between 2018.12 and 2020.06(-rc1) have a look at the official release announcement.

Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and rely on, and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of June 2020.

The Debian project hosts a Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg/Austria, taking place from April 5th to April 7th 2019. A Bug Squashing Party is a come-together of developers, contributors and enthusiasts who try to fix as many bugs as possible.

We’ve been invited to join the Bug Squashing Party and since Grml is an official derivative of Debian we’re more than happy to take this opportunity. This is the perfect time and place to meet with fellow Grml and Debian developers, contributors and friends, to make the next Debian- and Grml-Release the best ever! :)

The key facts:

• Location: conova communications GmbH, Karolingerstr. 36A, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
• Date: 2019-04-05 (Friday) until 2019-04-07 (Sunday)

If you want to join us please visit wiki.debian.org/BSP/2019/04/Salzburg for further information. If you’ve any questions feel free to reach out to us.

PS: For the ones of you who can’t join us in Salzburg, feel free to join us during the Bug Squashing Party on IRC (#grml on irc.freenode.org)!

So we did it again - we just released Grml 2018.12 - Gnackwatschn!

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing, what's going to be released as stable release Debian/buster in 2019. As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2018.12.

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Thanks everyone, happy new year and happy Grml-ing!

We are proud to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming version 2018.12, code-named 'Gnackwatschn'!

This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA buster). As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

For detailed information about the changes between 2017.05 and 2018.12(-rc1) have a look at the official release announcement.

Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and rely on, and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of December 2018.