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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.

Great news: the well known german IT news publisher Heise released a Linux magazine special named c't kompakt 01/2009. On pages 120 and 121 you'll find a nice article about grml titled "Grml: Schweizer Messer für Admins" (meaning: "grml: swiss army knife for admins"). The included DVD provides a grml 2008.11 ISO as well.

Update on 2009-04-06: sorry, adjusted the wording. Should be *IDE* vs. LIBATA of course. Sorry for the confusion.

The GRML Team wants to collect feedback regarding the recent switch from IDE to LIBATA. IDE? LIBATA?

• IDE (CONFIG_IDE) provides the old IDE subsystem (/dev/hdX), considered as legacy code.
• LIBATA is the new subsystem (/dev/sdX - though supports IDE as well) with new features, but some old IDE systems might not work with it.

Please participate in the poll! We highly appreciate and need your feedback.

grml has its own section in an article named Live-Shows - Live-Linuxe für jeden Zweck of the german magazine c't, edition 07/2009. Check out pages 125 and 126.