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+ <h1><a name="top"></a>Grml User Survey 2011</h1>
+
+ <h2>Preface</h2>
+
+ <p>In the beginning of 2011 we started a Grml user survey. From our
+ point of view it was an overwhelming success. As promised we will
+ share the results and discuss the feedback we got in detail.</p>
+
+ <p><abbr title="Too long; didn't read">tl;dr</abbr>? Skip to the <a href="#conclusion">conclusion</a>.
+ Interested in <a href="#toc">all the answers</a>?</p>
+
+ <h3>The Good</h3>
+
+ <p>First of all some numbers regarding our user survey. 28
+ questions, answered by more than 300 users in a timeframe of less
+ than one month. This means more than 8000 entries. On the day of the
+ announcement more than 70 people answered our survey. For our last
+ <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=survey07">user survey back
+ in 2007</a> 103 people answered in one month. Long story short: it
+ was an overwhelming success.</p>
+
+ <p>Due to the many open questions we got some interesting, fun and
+ exciting answers. We also got some nice use cases for Grml.</p>
+
+ <p>The overall quality of the provided answers, especially in the
+ custom texts were astonishing and we all enjoyed them.</p>
+
+ <h3>The Bad</h3>
+
+ <p>Obviously some questions could have been asked in a better way,
+ for example the DVD question. Instead of asking "should we
+ produce DVD Images" we could have asked if its worthwhile to
+ keep the 700MB limit for the CDs. Nevertheless we now know that a
+ DVD-image is not really important and worthwhile as most of you want
+ to get CD-sized images these days.</p>
+
+ <p>As we used Google Forms we did not get the IP address of the
+ participant. So we weren't able to gather geographic information
+ about the participants. We fixed this after we noticed the problem
+ by adding another question asking participants about their
+ location.</p>
+
+ <p>We did not ask about contact information but it would have been
+ worthwhile in some cases to get back to our users and provide
+ answers or hints. We did not change the survey as we were unsure if
+ its appropriate to ask for contact information in a survey.</p>
+
+ <p>Most answers did not result in immediate actions but we already
+ discussed the inclusion of provided packages and had a look at
+ provided URLs.</p>
+
+ <h3>The Ugly</h3>
+
+ <p>We used Google Forms and had many "Other options"
+ available. Unfortunately Google automatically translates predefined
+ labels. This means for e.g. persons from german speaking countries
+ the "Other" label was called "Andere" or the
+ submit button "Absenden". It would be great to disable
+ that feature or provide proper multi language form support in Google
+ Docs. Also the evaluation of custom answers turned out to be a lot
+ of work.</p>
+
+ <h2><a name="conclusion"></a>Conclusion</h2>
+
+ <p>Our strong focus on system administration tasks has been affirmed
+ by our users in 2007 and today. We will continue to aim to be the
+ best speciality Debian-based distribution for these use cases.
+ Desktop users will continue to be supported on the same level as
+ always. </p>
+
+ <p>While our user base is strong in Europe, we must expand further into
+ US and Asia. A first step, namely new mirrors closer to these
+ regions, has already been made.</p>
+
+ <p>A lot of awesome software has been suggested and some of it
+ already made it to the daily Grml builds. We will continue to work
+ on adding new software, but the important "One CD" (700MB)
+ limit is obviously a hard barrier. </p>
+
+ <p>We still want your feedback on all topics, but especially from
+ users of non-Debian-based distros. What do you like, what's missing,
+ what's bad for you? <a href="http://feedback.grml.org/">Send and
+ share your feedback</a> or <a
+ href="http://grml.org/contact/">drop us a message</a>!</p>
+
+ <p><strong>Thanks to everyone taking part in our survey!</strong></p>
+
+ <h3><a name="toc"></a>Table of Content - the Answers</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>About you
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#since_when">Since when have you been using Grml?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#stumble">How did you stumble upon Grml?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#located">Where are you located?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#knowledge">Level of Linux knowledge</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#operating_systems">Which operating systems do you use?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#distributions">If you are using Linux, which distributions do you use?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#project_name">Did you start your own Open Source project?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#project_areas">Are you involved in any FLOSS projects? If so in which areas?</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Company & Use case
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#environments">In which environments do you use Grml?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#company_name">If you are using Grml in a company, what is the name of the company?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#company_size">Size of the company</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#company_industry">Industry of the company</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#company_quote">Is there anything you and/or your company would like to say about Grml?</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Questions about Grml
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#bootmedia">Which boot media are you using for Grml?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#using_grml_for">Ever used Grml for...</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#creative_solution">What's your most creative solution with Grml?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#why_using_grml">Why are you using Grml?</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Tools & Programs
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#using_programs">Which programs did you use at least once?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#bootoptions">Which bootoptions do you use?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#windowmanagers">Which windowmanagers do you use on Grml?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#tools">Which tools would you like to see on Grml?</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Future of Grml
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#flavours">Which Grml-flavors make sense?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#dvd">Should we produce a DVD image instead of a CD image?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#ship_windowmanagers">Should we ship multiple window managers?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#debian_stable">Do you use Grml packages on Debian-Stable?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#what_should_be_changed">What else should be changed in Grml?</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>Anything else?
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#wishlist">Wishlist for improvements on Grml</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#famous_last_words">Did we forget anything? Any famous last words?</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>About you</h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="since_when"></a>Since when have you been using Grml?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/since_when.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>We seem to have a healthy mixture out of longstanding as well as
+ newer users which we consider a good sign to provide high quality
+ together with enough innovation.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="stumble"></a>How did you stumble upon Grml?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/stumble.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Most users come from suggestions by friends or on IRC as well as
+ independent websites. Just about a quarter stumbled upon Grml
+ through official media press. We consider this result as a healthy
+ combination and a proof of the rule how important word-of-mouth
+ recommendations are. Our favourite custom answer: The internet.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="located"></a>Where are you located?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/location.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>The first 65 survey results lacked this question and 5% didn't
+ answer this question. As the chart shows we cover all continents but
+ Europe is the place with the largest user base. At the last Grml
+ developer meeting we decided to put effort into providing mirrors
+ outside Europe. Thanks to people providing mirrors rit.edu (New
+ York/US) and ftp.tw.debian.org (Taiwan) our mirror coverage improved
+ a bit already, but our efforts toward improving Grml's coverage
+ outside Europe won't stop.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="knowledge"></a>Level of Linux knowledge</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/linux_knowledge.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Most people classify themselves as experts or intermediate. This
+ fits well in our focus. We think we are on track with our user
+ base.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="operating_systems"></a>Which operating systems do you use?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/operating_systems.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>99% of Grml's users use Linux and interestingly BSD got a better
+ result than Mac OS. Amongst the answers in "others" have
+ been Solaris, Haiku, Netware, HPUX, AIX, MS-DOS/FreeDOS, irix, Palm
+ OS5 and Symbian S40, whereas Solaris was the leading answer in
+ "others" with an overall count of 23.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="distributions"></a>If you are using Linux, which distributions do you use?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/distributions.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>With a leading 86% our users are Debian users. Nearly half of
+ them also use Ubuntu (or any Ubuntu based derivative) whereas other
+ Linux distributions have a coverage of less than 20% each. The
+ answers "others" included 21x Arch Linux, 10x Grml (hehe!
+ :)), 5x (Free/Open/....)WRT, 3x LFS, 3x Knoppix, 3x Maemo, 2x puppy,
+ 2x MEPIS, 2x Mint, 1x DSL, 1x Slacks, 1x Aptosid, 1x Archbang, 1x
+ Quirky, 1x Mandriva, 1x Scientific Linux, 1x Sabayon, 1x OpenBSD
+ (huh? :)), 1x SLiTaz, 1x CrunchBang, 1x AntiX. As a result we can
+ say that most of our users seem to be used to Debian(-based)
+ distributions.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="project_name"></a>Did you start your own Open Source project?</h3>
+
+ <p>We got 32 answers, which namely included the following Open
+ source projects: bley, wApua, unburden_home_dir, xpt, Hag
+ (hag-linux.eu.org, Grml derivative or rather a remix BTW, now kinda
+ dead, but I still have some plans), baculafs, undbx, HOG-Man
+ (scientific software), more than 15 ones (the currently most popular
+ being jpdftweak), variety of very small projects, IdyllaOS,
+ timecalc, rffc, bwm-ng, immv, FAI, i3, goldbach, FVWM-Crystal, FDTD,
+ Nagiosms, MirBSD, My personal gooogle, SNPpy, bixfile, ngircd,
+ MikeBrother, HME, gocr, octopus-window-manager, wedabecha, libgpmi /
+ v7us / libmawk / scconfig / libporty and a lot more.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="project_areas"></a>Are you involved in any FLOSS projects? If so in which
+ areas?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/floss_projects.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Most of our user are directly involved in development with code
+ 62%, documentation 47% and support 44%. Quite some are also involved
+ in packaging (36%) which is no surprise given that Grml is based on
+ Debian and got featured several times on planet.debian.org.</p>
+
+ <h2>Company & Use case</h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="environments"></a>In which environments do you use Grml?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/environments_for_grml.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Nearly all Grml users do use Grml for personal use (94%), whereas
+ 53% use Grml in a business environment. 19% of Grml users are using
+ it in an educational environment. This means that most people use
+ Grml for work as well as in their personal environment. Maybe we
+ should provide some examples how to use Grml in different
+ environments (Rescue system for virtualised systems, deployment
+ etc.)</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="company_name"></a>If you are using Grml in a company, what is the name of the
+ company?</h3>
+
+ <p>We got several names of companies using Grml. Amongst them are
+ established universities as well as well known companies. Thanks for
+ your feedback, we plan to provide the list through a separate
+ webpage in the near future.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="company_size"></a>Size of the company</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/company_size.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <h3><a name="company_industry"></a>Industry of the company</h3>
+
+ <p>No big surprises - most companies are IT related. However there
+ are some non-IT related industries like ecology, healthcare, online
+ gambling and tourism as well. Now we are sure that Grml is used in
+ all different kinds of industries and well accepted.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="company_quote"></a>Is there anything you and/or your
+ company would like to say about Grml?</h3>
+
+ <p>First of all, thanks for all the nice and interesting answers.
+ This was one of the most fun parts to read in the whole survey.</p>
+
+ <p>Some example quotes:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>The simplicity of grml often astonishes people around me when
+ I am doing a 1:1 backup using dd or recovering their presumably
+ lost data with testdisk</li>
+
+ <li>Pure Awesome in tiny ~700 MB :D Seriously, lots of big thanks
+ for maintaing such a great project! Also; kudos for the great
+ naming convention!</li>
+
+ <li>A real Swiss Army Knife for Linux sysadmins.</li>
+
+ <li>Best utility Live distro ever.</li>
+
+ <li>It just fits. Everything is in place and ready to use. From
+ drivers to firmwares (like wifi, fibre channel), programs:
+ ddrhelp, irssi and many others not available elsewhere</li>
+
+ <li>Reliable, stable and powerful Linux live CD/USB distro. Great for
+ auto write blocking hardware for forensic acquisitions</li>
+
+ <li>In the past I used knoppix as rescue, since I know grml, I do not
+ need knoppix any more</li>
+
+ <li>Great work. Thank you so much. Btw, I have just "chsh
+ --shell zsh" because of your great zsh configuration</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>Questions about Grml</h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="bootmedia"></a>Which boot media are you using for Grml?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/boot_media.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>CDs are still the most important boot media at 79%, followed by
+ USB with 76%. This means we are on the right track with providing
+ easy to use solutions with grml2usb and dd for our users.
+ Network/PXE setups with 28% and hard-disk installations (18%) are
+ not as common as CDs and USB sticks but still often used. Especially
+ considering the fact that network/PXE environments typically serve
+ larger environments we consider 28% to be an excellent value.</p>
+
+ <p>Answers filed under "Other" included:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>VM</li>
+
+ <li>ISO on harddisk if the main installation is broken.
+ <strong>Comment:</strong> now directly supported with grml-rescueboot</li>
+
+ <li>DVD <strong>Comment:</strong> someone using grml2iso</li>
+
+ <li>cd image in a VM</li>
+
+ <li>multiboot usb (grml2usb/local.cfg for the rescue)</li>
+
+ <li>image via toram= (good choice to use debian-live)</li>
+
+ <li>virtual cd drive. <strong>Comment:</strong> seems to be also
+ used in a virtual environment (IBM RSA, HP iLO,...)</li>
+
+ <li>iso on hd from grub2. <strong>Comment:</strong> check out grml-rescueboot</li>
+
+ <li>Remote boot via iso.</li>
+
+ <li>isofrom (hard disk)</li>
+
+ <li>iso file</li>
+
+ <li>.ISO within Virtual Machine</li>
+
+ <li>Compact Flash</li>
+
+ <li>Boot from iso</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>We should promote the <a
+ href="http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/01/07/booting-iso-images-from-within-grub2/">grml-rescueboot
+ feature</a> more prominently as it seems that there is a market
+ for it.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="using_grml_for"></a>Ever used Grml for...</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/using_grml_for.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>While we had a look at the answers we immediately noticed that
+ most people (>90%) used Grml for more than one task. This shows
+ that Grml is quite flexible and can be used in several different
+ areas. While the high percentages for Recovery (92%), Hardware
+ diagnostic (77%), Backup (62%) and Network analysis (52%) are no big
+ surprises, the percentages for Forensic (40%), Linux Desktop (29%)
+ and Programming (16%) truly are. This result means that we should
+ keep the Linux Desktop and Programming tasks in mind though the main
+ focus is still on the classic use cases.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="creative_solution"></a>What's your most creative solution with Grml?</h3>
+
+ <p>Ok guys, again. Your answers were really cool and nice, and we
+ are sorry to only give you some quotes but it would take up several
+ pages:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>My desktop system is basically a USB disk that boots my
+ (remastered) grml (one partition contains the grml & grml64
+ ISOs) and has all user data on another partition (grml-crypt is
+ another neat tool to secure that data). That way, I have my
+ desktop with me everywhere.</li>
+
+ <li>We set up a grml PXE server in a VM on VSphere 4, because if a
+ client doesn't boot, grml is the first thing we need.</li>
+
+ <li>PXE-Server which automatically installed Debian via FAI to
+ multiple machines.</li>
+
+ <li>Grml makes it easy to configure and manage a network of 20+
+ servers: 20+ vmware machines all boot from a single copy of
+ grml.</li>
+
+ <li>grml64micro, a stripped down remastered version of grml to fit
+ into some few free MB in /boot </li>
+
+ <li>When I started using it, it was primarily for installing
+ Gentoo.</li>
+
+ <li>We wrote some auto-install scripts that can non-interactively
+ install certain flavours of Linux on the computer we booted grml
+ on.</li>
+
+ <li>I like my phone-home image which boots up with X and opens a
+ tunnel to me. I had nothing to hack since you guys have so many
+ possibilities to modify behaviour. THANKS!</li>
+
+ <li>automatic boot into an remote application server for idle/unused
+ workstation PC</li>
+
+ <li>plug in grml stick, plug in network card, boot it, it will ask
+ you what system you want to install using dialog(1) then it
+ automatically partitions the disk, pulls all the packages and
+ custom software, makes it bootable, configures IP addresses.
+ Reboot, enjoy.</li>
+
+ <li>public surf station (kiosk)</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Most solutions are related to deployment and rescue. But some are
+ also using it for other purpose like a modified desktop systems.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="why_using_grml"></a>Why are you using Grml?</h3>
+
+ <p>Also just a short overview but it seems that the most important
+ reasons for using Grml are:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Based on Debian</li>
+
+ <li>Command-line interface</li>
+
+ <li>Ships all necessary command-line tools</li>
+
+ <li>Zsh</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>This means we are on the right track. An excerpt of the
+ answers:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Great terminal tools, great choice of X environments (I use
+ dwm and evilwm), very well configured out of the box to discover
+ and give me information on any box or network I boot it from.</li>
+
+ <li>because it`s based on debian, it early had amd64 support, zsh
+ rocks, in rescue mission its important to have a distri, which
+ supports LVM2 and raid systems oftb, the team reacts very quick on
+ suggestions and answers</li>
+
+ <li>moved from Knoppix to grml (less X and Office -> more SHELL
+ and Tools) - love debian - love the many, many grml-.... scripts
+ that make it so handy to use - love the names (Funkenzutzler 4 the
+ win !!!elf)</li>
+
+ <li>It's debian-like; I couldn't get debian-live to work for me; It's
+ easy to customize; It contains *all* the packages I needed</li>
+
+ <li>Meets my basic requirements for a rescue distribution: Debian
+ based, bootable from USB with data persistence, customizable...
+ and it has Emacs!</li>
+
+ <li>I love GRML. I love what you guys do. I love GRML. I really,
+ really love GRML. This distro has deeply affected my interest in
+ Linux by providing me with out-of-the-box customized professional
+ linux awsomeness. I will never be as good as you guys at anything
+ that you do, I will never be as smart as you guys and I have a
+ fraction of the talent. I could never write a single one of these
+ scripts or customizations.I will never be a professional
+ programmer and I will never be as good at anything as you are at
+ this. But you have allowed me to see what you do and get right in
+ there and do it to, you have allowed me to this extremely advanced
+ stuff that I would never have the chance to access otherwise, let
+ alone even be aware of.</li>
+
+ <li>1) It boots without X11. 2) Every tool I ever expected to be there,
+ was there.</li>
+
+ <li>release names :)</li>
+
+ <li>GRML converted me to zsh. Now I use GRML because of zsh.</li>
+
+ <li>We tried other live system, of course Knoppix and Kanotix, but Grml
+ just rocks the machines better!</li>
+
+ <li>Several reasons, in no particular order: * Debian based. *
+ Updated regularly (recent kernel, recent userspace readily
+ available in daily snapshots). * No GUI bloat I wouldn't need
+ anyway. * Excellent zsh config (I now install grml-scripts by
+ default on most of my systems). * Approachable developers. *
+ grml2usb. * grml2ram. * 64bit flavour available.</li>
+
+ <li>At a first view it seems to have a lot of possibilities in one
+ place - ready to use, The best I ever have seen, I may say:
+ Wonderful.</li>
+
+ <li>This was the more interesting part to me: "Grml includes a
+ collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system
+ administrators and users of texttools"...</li>
+
+ <li>Great hardware support and includes all the tools a sysadmin
+ might need.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>Tools & Programs</h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="using_programs"></a>Which programs did you use at least once?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/which_programs.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Unsurprisingly grml-x is the most used program. Second most used
+ Grml script is grml2usb which is a little bit surprising as it means
+ that for installing Grml to an usb stick it wins over the dd(1)
+ method for many people. grml-network respectively netcardconfig is
+ also expected as you sometimes need to configure your network.
+ grml-live is used more often than grml2hd (which BTW is unsupported)
+ and grml-debootstrap. This means that (at least for our
+ participants) remastering is more common than installing Grml/Debian
+ from within Grml..This clearly shows that Grml can be considered as
+ a framework for generating and maintaining flexible Live
+ Distributions.</p>
+
+ <p>Surprisingly MirBSD is used less often than FreeDOS and gPXE.</p>
+
+ <p>For "other" mostly non Grml-specific tools were
+ mentioned, as well as some not so well known Grml tools like
+ grml-crypt (wrapper for cryptsetup) and grml-chroot (wrapper for
+ chroot, binding /sys, /proc and /dev to the chroot) as well as
+ grml-quickstart. We plan to improve our documentation to cover those
+ not so well known tools.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="bootoptions"></a>Which bootoptions do you use?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/bootoptions.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>ssh (start an ssh server while booting), toram (copy the whole cd
+ into ram) and lang (set the language) are the most commonly used
+ bootoptions, covering the common use cases. nofb at 20% was
+ unexpected. Probably there are quite a few machines where our
+ default console configuration (framebuffer) does not work.</p>
+
+ <p>As one user requested a way to automatically start user-supplied
+ scripts, we want to mention that there's already the
+ "script" bootoption (see <a
+ href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grml-cheatcodes.txt;hb=HEAD">grml-cheatcodes.txt</a>).</p>
+
+ <p>Surprisingly "forensic" is also quite often mentioned
+ as bootoption. If you're interested in a special product on IT
+ forensics you might want to check out <a
+ href="http://grml-forensic.org/">Grml-Forensic</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="windowmanagers"></a>Which windowmanagers do you use on Grml?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/using_window_managers.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Most common answers were fluxbox / wm-ng (Grml default) and None,
+ right in line with our design target: a proper console. Others
+ mention several small window manager like ratpoison, dwm, i3
+ etc.</p>
+
+ <p>Because many window managers were mentioned we may reassess the
+ (re)inclusion of some small window managers.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="tools"></a>Which tools would you like to see on Grml?</h3>
+
+ <p>Several tools mentioned here are already included in Grml like
+ for example KVM, others will not be included due to licensing
+ issues. For a complete list of packages shipped by Grml have a look
+ at <a
+ href="http://grml.org/files/release-2010.12/dpkg_get_selections">http://grml.org/files/release-2010.12/dpkg_get_selections
+ </a></p>
+
+ <p>We are currently in the process of reviewing all suggested
+ packages and may come up with details at a later date.</p>
+
+ <h2>Future of Grml</h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="flavours"></a>Which Grml-flavors make sense?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/grml_flavours.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Grml-full seems to make sense as well as grml-small. Grml-medium
+ is not quite often used. One interesting suggestion is to combine
+ grml-small and grml-full on one CD. We don't have any plans to ship
+ this, but you can easily do this yourself with grml2iso. Another
+ suggestion was to create a special version for virtualised
+ environments named grml-virt.</p>
+
+ <p>While grml-medium is not as well accepted as grml-small and
+ grml-full in our community, we will continue to ship grml-medium as
+ it's the perfect and recommended starting point for customized Grml
+ distributions.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="dvd"></a>Should we produce a DVD image instead of a CD image?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/dvd_images.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>As already stated this question was not that helpful. Nothing to
+ comment besides the graphics and what has been mentioned
+ already.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="ship_windowmanagers"></a>Should we ship multiple window managers?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/window_managers.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Although the X server isn't used that often on Grml, its users
+ commonly want to use their favourite window manager. As already
+ stated we will reassess the (re)inclusion of some small window
+ managers because of your answers.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="debian_stable"></a>Do you use Grml packages on Debian-Stable?</h3>
+
+ <img src="./img/grml_packages_on_debian.png" alt="*" />
+
+ <p>Installation of Grml packages on Debian is a rare occurrence,
+ except for grml2usb on Debian stable. Consensus is to not put too
+ much effort into it.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="what_should_be_changed"></a>What else should be changed in Grml?</h3>
+
+ <p>Besides some UX things like better artwork/no links (the browser)
+ after startup in X.org etc. most feedback was quite positive. We got
+ some detailed suggestions like better wireless configuration,
+ automatic selection of the kernel in multiarch environments, and
+ others. We are looking into your requests.</p>
+
+ <h2>Anything else?</h2>
+
+ <h3><a name="wishlist"></a>Wishlist for improvements on Grml</h3>
+
+ <p>We got some really nice ideas like inclusion of support for other
+ boot images in our GRUB environment or multiarch CDs. Better
+ documentation as well as some How-tos was also mentioned several
+ times. Oh and more professionalism for our wallpapers. It seems that
+ at least in one work environment our wallpaper caused some
+ blush.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="famous_last_words"></a>Did we forget anything? Any famous last words?</h3>
+
+ <p>This is again mainly positive things, so just some examples:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>I hate to disagree with the devs oft stated opinion, but grml
+ is still the best desktop installer to create a usable desktop
+ environment, because everything just works out of the box, and has
+ no distro specific absurdities, like the famous debian forks.</li>
+
+ <li>Great distro, truley a masterpiece of work.</li>
+
+ <li>grml is 2 percent Jazz, 98 percent funky stuff ... </li>
+
+ <li>It is great and it is debian</li>
+
+ <li>Why don't you get rid of this strange ZSH and switch to the
+ industry standard bash?!?! Haha, j/k :-)</li>
+
+ <li>Simple: Grml rocks! Thanks for the great work. </li>
+
+ <li>The answer must be, of course, 42.</li>
+
+ <li>United as one! Divided by zero!</li>
+
+ <li>I like the cool distribution names!</li>
+
+ <li>Thanks guys, I appreciate the work you've put into this
+ distro.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
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