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31 <p>Get news on grml via <a href="/index.rss">RSS-feed</a>! [What is <a
32 href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html">RSS</a>?]</p>
34 <p>Take a look <a href="http://blog.grml.org/">at the grml devel
35 weblog</a> if you are interested in current news and development of
36 grml! Tips and hints can be found in <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">the
43 <p>New stable <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2011.05/">release version 2011.05</a> available.</p>
47 <p>Release candidate 1 of <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2011.05-rc1/">version 2011.05 is available</a>.</p>
51 <p>Grml joins <a href="http://blog.grml.org/archives/352-The-Canterbury-Project.html">The Canterbury Project</a> (Disclaimer: April Fool's joke).</p>
55 <p>Grml development blog <a href="http://blog.grml.org/archives/350-A-new-home.html">moved to new home</a> - now available at
56 <a href="http://blog.grml.org/">blog.grml.org</a>.</p>
60 <p><a href="http://grml.org/survey2011-results/">Results of the Grml user survey</a> available.</p>
64 <p>German magazine <a href="http://www.heise.de/ct/meldung/c-t-extra-Netzwerke-ab-sofort-bestellbar-1200214.html">c't extra Netzwerke 01/2011</a> features
65 a special edition of Grml 2010.12.</p>
69 <p>German <a href="http://www.linux-magazin.de/Heft-Abo/Ausgaben/2011/03">Linux Magazine 03/11</a> features Grml 2010.12 on DVD (DELUG version).</p>
71 <h3>08.01.2011 - 01.02.2011</h3>
73 <p>Grml User survey online (starting on 8th of January and closed on 1st of February)
74 to gather user feedback.</p>
80 <p>New stable <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2010.12/">release version 2010.12</a> available.</p>
84 <p>Release candidate 0 of <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2010.12-rc0/">
85 version 2010.12 available</a>.</p>
89 <p>The developer meeting for the upcoming Grml release took place on 4th and 5th
90 november 2010 in the fantastic hackerspace <a
91 href="http://metalab.at/">Metalab</a> in Vienna/Austria. Find the
92 details about the meeting in the <a
93 href="http://grml.org/reports/devmeeting_2010/">Minutes of the Grml
94 Developer Meeting 2010</a>.</p>
98 <p>Christian Hofstaedter joined <a href="/team/">the Grml team</a>.</p>
102 <p><a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/347-Event-Grml-at-FrOSCon-2010.html">Grml at FrOSCon 2010</a>.</p>
106 <p>The german magazine <a
107 href="http://www.freiesmagazin.de/">freiesMagazin</a> provides an
108 article about Grml in its current edition 06/2010.</p>
112 <p><a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/343-Event-Grml-Talk-in-DornbirnAustria.html">Grml talk at Net Culture Lab in Dornbirn on 10th of June</a>.</p>
116 <p>New stable releases version
117 2010.04 available: <a
118 href="/changelogs/README-grml-2010.04/">grml</a>, <a
119 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-2010.04/">grml64</a>, <a
120 href="/changelogs/README-grml-medium-2010.04/">grml-medium</a>, <a
121 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-2010.04/">grml64-medium</a>,
122 <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-small-2010.04/">grml-small</a> and
123 <a href="/changelogs/README-grml64-small-2010.04/">grml64-small</a>.</p>
127 <p>Grml at Linuxdays Graz: Several Grml team members will be present
128 at <a href="http://www.linuxtage.at/">Linuxdays in Graz</a> on
129 Saturday, April 24th 2010. Thanks to data rescue specialist Attingo
130 (<a href="http://www.attingo.com/">Attingo</a> <a
131 href="http://www.attingo.com/at/">Datenrettung</a>) we can offer free
132 Grml CDs to every visitor. We'll have Grml USB pens, posters, coffee
133 cups and a talk about Grml. <a
134 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/341-Event-Grml-at-Linuxdays-Graz-2010.html">Further
139 <p>Release candidate 1 of <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2010.04/">version 2010.04 available</a>.</p>
143 <p>New <a href="http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml-devel">Grml developer mailinglist</a>.</p>
149 <p>Grml <a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/336-Grml-goes-microblogging.html">goes microblogging</a>.</p>
153 <p>New stable releases version 2009.10 available: <a
154 href="/changelogs/README-grml-2009.10/">grml</a>, <a
155 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-2009.10/">grml64</a>, <a
156 href="/changelogs/README-grml-medium-2009.10/">grml-medium</a>, <a
157 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-2009.10/">grml64-medium</a>,
158 <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-small-2009.10/">grml-small</a> and
160 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-small-2009.10/">grml64-small</a>.</p>
164 <p>Release candidate 1 of version 2009.10 available.</p>
169 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/325-Event-grml-at-FrOSCon-2009.html">grml booth and grml talk at FrOSCon 2009</a>.</p>
173 <p>Poll: <a href="http://doodle.com/3dnzvhv43tmhpcpn">Removal of LaTeX on grml</a></p>
177 <p>New stable version available: <a
178 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/320-grml-2009.05-released.html">grml
179 2009.05 released</a>.</p>
183 <p>Release candidate 1 of version 2009.05 available.</p>
187 <p>The well known german IT news publisher <a
188 href="http://heise.de/">Heise</a> released a Linux magazine special
189 named <a href="https://www.heise.de/kiosk/special/ct/09/03/">c't
190 kompakt 01/2009</a>. On pages 120 and 121 you'll find a nice
191 article about grml titled "Grml: Schweizer Messer für Admins"
192 (meaning: "grml: swiss army knife for admins"). The included DVD
193 provides a grml 2008.11 ISO as well.</p>
195 <h3>05.05.2009</h3><a name="osdc09"></a>
197 <p>Mika was talking about grml in a german talk named '<a
198 href="http://www.netways.de/osdc/y2009/programm/v/grml/">grml - das
199 Schweizer Taschenmesser der Linux-Notfallsysteme</a>' at the <a
200 href="http://www.netways.de/english/osdc/y2009/">Open Source Data
201 Center Conference</a> in germany. The (german) slides of the talk
202 are available for download: <a
203 href="/slides/grml-im-rechenzentrum_osdc09.pdf">grml - das
204 Schweizer Taschenmesser der Linux-Notfallsysteme</a> (PDF).</p>
208 <p>grml booth at Grazer Linuxdays 2009: several core developers of
209 grml are available at the grml booth of <a
210 href="http://linuxtage.at/">Grazer Linuxdays 2009</a> on 25th of
211 april in Graz/Austria.</p>
215 <p><a href="http://doodle.com/vr75tpe4a2p6mwvt">Poll: IDE vs.
220 <p>grml mentioned in c't 07/2009: grml is featured in the german c't
221 magazine, edition 07/2009 in the article <a
222 href="http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt/2009/07/126/"> 'Live-Shows -
223 Live-Linuxe für jeden Zweck'</a>.</p>
227 <p>grml in linux user magazine 2009/02: the german Linux User
228 magazine edition 2009/02 provides a two pages article about grml
230 href="http://www.linux-community.de/Internal/Artikel/Print-Artikel/LinuxUser/2009/02/Linux-alpin">'Linux
231 alpin'</a>. The DVD edition provides a multiboot DVD featuring
238 <p>Moritz Augsburger joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
242 <p>New stable releases version 2008.11 available:
243 <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2008.11/">grml</a>, <a
244 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-2008.11/">grml64</a>, <a
245 href="/changelogs/README-grml-medium-2008.11/">grml-medium</a>, <a
246 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-2008.11/">grml64-medium</a>,
247 <a href="/changelogs/README-grml-small-2008.11/">grml-small</a> and
249 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-small-2008.11/">grml64-small</a>.</p>
253 <p><a href="/changelogs/README-grml-2008.11/">Release candidate 1 of
254 grml 2008.11</a> available. Grab it from the devel directory on <a
255 href="/download/#mirrors">the mirrors</a>.</p>
259 <p><a href="http://grml.org/2008/10/01/">Migration from Mercurial to Git</a>.</p>
263 <p><a href="http://grml.org/2008/08/21/">grml at Froscon 2008</a>.</p>
268 <p>New stable releases available: <a
269 href="/changelogs/README-grml-1.1/">grml 1.1</a>, <a
270 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-0.2/">grml64 0.2</a>, <a
271 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-0.1/">grml-medium 0.1</a>
272 and <a href="/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-0.1/">grml64-medium
279 <p>New releases candidates available: <a
280 href="/changelogs/README-grml-1.1-rc1/">grml 1.1-rc1</a>, <a
281 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-0.2-rc1/">grml64 0.2-rc1</a>, <a
282 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-0.1-rc1/">grml-medium
284 href="/changelogs/README-grml64-medium-0.1-rc1/">grml64-medium
289 <p>grml in <a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/273-grml-in-ct-special-Netzwerke.html">c't special 02/2008 Netzwerke" magazine</a>.</p>
293 <p>Alexander Steinböck joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
297 <p>Daily builds available: <a
298 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/269-Daily-grml-snapshots.html">automatically generated ISOs
299 of grml</a> (using <a href="/grml-live/">the grml-live framework</a>) are available at <a
300 href="http://daily.grml.org/">daily.grml.org</a>.</p>
304 <p><a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/259-grml-at-FrOSCon-2007-and-Linux-User-Group-Moenchengladbach.html">grml at FrOSCon 2007 and Linux User Group Moenchengladbach</a></p>
308 <p><a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/257-grml-grml64-grml-small-in-LinuxUser-072007.html">grml 1.0, grml64 and grml-small 0.4 plus grml-article in LinuxUser 07/2007</a></p>
313 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=survey07">grml user survey
314 are available</a>.</p>
318 <p>Releases grml 1.0, grml64 0.1 and grml-small 0.4 <a
319 href="/2007/05/19/#release_1.0">available</a>.</p>
323 <p>grml 1.0-rc1, grml64 0.1-rc1 and grml-small 0.4-rc1 <a
324 href="/2007/05/08/#release_1.0-rc1">available</a>.</p>
328 <p>A <a href="http://grml.org/grml2hd/gallery/">screenshot
329 gallery showing details of the grml2hd process is available
334 <p>The first grml user survey <a
335 href="/user-survey/grml.txt">is online</a>.</p>
338 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/229-update-of-zsh-lovers-in-asciidoc-format.html">Big
339 update of zsh-lovers</a> - rewritten in asciidoc. See <a
340 href="/zsh/#zshlovers">grml.org/zsh/</a> for details.</p>
344 <p>Frank Terbeck joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
350 <p><a href="http://grml.org/files/README-0.9.html">grml 0.9 -
351 codename Dioptrienotto</a> and <a
352 href="http://grml.org/files/README-0.3-small.html">grml-small
353 0.3 - codename Zwergenaufstand</a> are available.</p>
358 href="http://lists.mur.at/pipermail/grml/2006-December/001159.html">New
359 Debian repository available</a>.</p>
364 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/215-grml-0.9-release-candidate-1-available.html">grml
365 0.9 - release candidate 1 available</a>.</p>
369 <p><a href="http://ml.grml.org/list/hg-commits.en.html">grml
370 repository commits mailinglist</a> available.</p>
372 <p>Big update of <a href="/zsh/#grmlzshrefcard">grml-zsh-refcard</a>.</p>
374 <h3><a name="mercurial"></a>21.10.2006</h3>
377 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi">Mercurial</a>
378 and provides public access to the repositories via <a
379 href="http://hg.grml.org/">hg.grml.org</a>. Documentation
380 regarding mercurial @ grml.org can be found at <a
381 href="/mercurial/">grml.org/mercurial/</a>.</p>
385 <p>Ulrich Dangel joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
389 <p>grml 0.8 - Codename Funkenzutzler <a
390 href="http://grml.org/download/">available</a>.</p>
392 <p>The new release brings 117 new packages and many new features. For
393 details take a look at <a href="http://grml.org/files/README-0.8.html">the
394 release announcement</a>.</p>
398 <p>grml 0.8 - release candidate 1 <a
399 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/173-grml-0.8-release-candidate-1-available.html">is
402 <h3><a name="wlt06"></a>05.06.2006</h3>
404 <p>grml on linuxdays graz and vienna 2006.</p>
406 <p>On 20th of may several grml developers attended <a
407 href="http://linuxtage.at/">the grazer linuxdays</a>. Mika held <a
408 href="http://linuxtage.at/63/">a lecture about grml</a>. Read <a
409 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/160-grml-on-linuxdays-graz.html">the
410 report in the grml develblog</a>.</p>
412 <p>From 31st of may until 2nd june the <a
413 href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/">linuxdays in vienna</a> took place.
414 Mika once more held <a
415 href="http://linuxwochen.at/2006/Programm_Wien:_grml_-_Linux_Live-CD_f%C3%BCr_Sysadmins_und_Geeks">a
416 talk about grml</a> including a short feature demo of the <a
417 href="http://grml.org/zsh/">Zsh</a>. Read <a
418 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/162-grml-on-linuxdays-vienna-2006.html">the
419 report in the grml develblog</a>.</p>
421 <h3><a name="linuxuser200606"></a>18.05.2006</h3>
423 <p>A <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_linuxuser">special
424 release of grml named Bootenschnitzl@LU</a> is shipped with <a
425 href="http://linux-user.de/">the german LinuxUser magazine</a>. You will
426 also find an article about grml inside the magazine, so get your own
431 <p>Planet Grml available. <a
432 href="http://planet.grml.org/">planet.grml.org</a> is a weblog
433 aggregation containing blog articles written by the developers of the
438 <p>Timo Boettcher joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
442 <p>grml 0.7 - Codename Bootenschnitzl <a href="/download/">is
443 available</a>!<br /> The new release brings 48 new packages and many new
444 features. For details take a look at <a
445 href="http://grml.org/files/README-0.7.html">the release
446 announcement</a>.</p>
450 <p>The grml-user mailinglist is available on the mail to news gateway
452 href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user">gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user</a></p>
456 <p>grml 0.6 - Codename Winterschlapfn <a href="/download/">is
457 available</a>!<br /> The new release brings 99 new packages and many new
458 features. For details take a look at <a
459 href="http://grml.org/files/README-0.6.txt">the release
460 announcement</a>.</p>
462 <p>grml-small 0.2 - Codename Corry is available! For details take a look
463 at <a href="http://grml.org/files/README-0.2-small.txt">the release
464 announcement</a>.</p>
470 <p>Alexander Wirt joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
475 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">grml-announce
476 mailinglist</a> is available.</p>
480 <p>You like our work? Make a donation to support our work! See <a
481 href="http://grml.org/donations/">grml.org/donations/</a> for
486 <p>grml 0.5 - Codename Tokolytika is available!<br /> The new release
487 brings 262 new packages and many new features. For details take a look at
488 <a href="/files/README-0.5.txt">the release announcement</a>.</p>
492 <p>A german paper about grml is available online: <a
493 href="http://grml.org/docs/grml-paper.de.pdf">grml-paper (170kB, PDF)</a>
494 (also see <a href="http://grml.org/docs/">docs-section at grml.org</a>).
495 That's 24 pages about technologies used at grml and some main information
496 about grml itself.</p>
500 <p>The <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">grml-wiki</a> is available.</p>
502 <p><a href="/faq/#whatissmall">grml-small</a> 0.1 - Codename Zugschlus is
503 available! For details take a look at <a
504 href="/files/README-0.1-small.txt">the release announcement</a>.</p>
508 <p>grml 0.4 - Codename Eierspass is available!<br /> The new release
509 brings 192 new packages and many new features. For details take a look at
510 <a href="/files/README-0.4.txt">the release announcement</a>.</p>
514 <p>Marcel Wichern joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
518 <p>Julius Plenz wrote <a href="http://grml.org/zsh/#grmlzshrefcard">a
519 reference card for the zsh configuration of grml</a>.</p>
523 <p>grml developers at Linzer Linuxdays 2005: On 14th of april Mika and
524 Jimmy are going to arrive at Linzer Linuxdays 2005 [in Austria]: <a
525 href="http://linz.linuxwochen.at/"> http://linz.linuxwochen.at/</a>.</p>
527 <p>Andreas 'Jimmy' Gredler will give <a
528 href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/cgi-bin/index?id=100000796">a talk about
529 RAID-systems on Linux</a> on 14th of april. Mika will give <a
530 href="http://www.linuxwochen.at/cgi-bin/index?id=100000799">a talk about
531 grml on 15th of april</a>. A technology preview of grml 0.4 - including
532 X.org, the new grml-x system and full unionfs-support - will be presented
537 <p>Tobias Klauser joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
541 <p>The <a href="http://grml.org/beta-tester/">beta-tester subproject</a>
546 <p>Julius Plenz joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</p>
550 <p>grml 0.3 - Codename Hustenstopper <a href="/download/">is
551 available</a>!<br /> The new release brings 191 new packages and
552 many new features. For details take a look at <a
553 href="http://grml.org/files/README-0.3.txt">the release
554 announcement</a>.</p>
556 <p>Today several grml developers are going to arrive at <a
557 href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2005/info/">Chemnitzer Linux-Tage
558 2005 (CLT05) [in Germany]</a>.</p>
560 <p>Mika will present grml 0.3 in <a
561 href="http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2005/vortraege/detail.html?idx=26">
562 his talk on 6th of march at CLT05</a>.</p>
566 <p>The grml development blog is available at <a
567 href="http://grml.supersized.org/">grml.supersized.org</a>. Syndicate the
568 blog if you are interested in development and current news on grml.</p>
572 <p>From 7th till 9th of february the grml-develdays have taken place in
573 Graz. The result of these days is an unofficial prerelease of
574 the upcoming grml release 0.3
575 which will be presented on the <a href="http://linuxday2005.tk/">linuxday
576 klagenfurt</a> (carinthia/austria) on 22nd of february. Michael Prokop
577 will hold a workshop on grml at this event and the two other grml core
578 developers will be there too. A sponsor provides us 50 CDs for free, if
579 you attend the workshop you can get one prerelease for free.<br />
581 Notice: The grml-team is searching for a grml cd-label for the upcoming
582 release 0.3. Please send your submission till 28th of february via mail
583 to mika (at) grml.org The winner gets one official grml t-shirt for
588 <p>grml 0.2 - Codename Satura <a href="/download/">available</a>.<br />
589 The new release brings 455 new packages and many new features.
590 For details take a look at <a
591 href="http://grml.org/files/README-0.2.txt">the release
592 announcement</a>.</p>
598 <p>New webpage available: <a href="/zsh/">grml.org/zsh/</a></p>
602 <p>Book list available.</a></p>
606 <p>Matthias Kopfermann and Wolfgang Scheicher joined the <a
607 href="/team/">grml-team</a>.</p>
611 <p>Release 0.1 - Codename OS04 <a href="/download/">available</a>.</p>
615 <p>Gerfried Fuchs joined the <a href="/team/">grml-team</a>.</p>
619 <p>Mario Lang joined the <a href="/team/">grml-team</a>.</p>
623 <p>Presentation of grml 0.09 Codename Bughunter at Kunstlabor in Graz. <a
624 href="http://dufo.tugraz.at/~prokop/kunstlabor/">Some pictures are available
629 <p>Nico Golde joined the <a href="/team/">grml-team</a>.</p>
633 <p>Andreas Gredler and Daniel K. Gebhart joined the <a
634 href="/team/">grml-team</a>.</p>
638 <p><a href="/mailinglist/">Mailinglist</a> available.</p>
642 <p>Relaunch of website. Michael Gebetsroither joined the <a
643 href="/team/">grml-team</a>.</p>
647 <p>A <a href="/index.rss">RSS-feed</a> for grml is available.</p>
651 <p>A bootable version of a remastered Knoppix 3.6 exists. Some finetuning and the
652 package-selection has to be done in the next days/weeks. A first official version
653 will be available in september/october 2004. Please <a href="/report/">report
654 wishes</a> (e.g. on included software) to us!</p>
658 <p>We have made some more design-decisions. Due to lack of time we changed our goal
659 from creating a distribution from scratch/source based to building a distribution
660 based on debian/knoppix. We don't want to reinvent the wheel
661 (:=hardware-recognition, packetmanagement,..) so we try to use existing
662 infrastructure and improve things we don't like that much.</p>
664 <h3>October 2003 - Juli 2004</h3>
666 <p>We collected ressources for building a new distribution (many ideas,
667 websites,...). We created <a href="/img/grml_bart.png">a vmware-image</a> based on <a
668 href="http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcett/yard/index.html">yard</a>, wrote some
669 zsh-scripts (zsh will be the default-shell of grml) and wrote a first (unpublished)
672 <h2><a name="2003"></a>2003</h2>
676 <p>Setting up (local) newsserver for team members with newsgroups local.grml,
677 local.grml.flames and local.grml.ressources.</p>
680 <p> Setting up website.</p>
684 <p>Registered <a href="http://grml.org/">grml.org</a></p>
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