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The german magazine iX Kompakt Security 2014 ("Sicher im Netz") from publisher Heise ships our latest Grml stable release (2014.03) on their DVD.

The german "LinuxWelt" ships Grml release 2014.03 on the DVD of edition 05/2014.

The german "Linux Magazin" ships Grml release 2014.03 on the DELUG-DVD of edition 06/2014.

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.