grml development blog

Kevin Krammer just let me know that he is running grml on his Soekris box:

grml@grml ~ % cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : Geode by NSC
cpu family : 5
model : 9
model name : Unknown
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 266.695
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu tsc msr cx8 cmov mmx cxmmx
bogomips : 534.63

grml@grml ~ % uname -a
Linux grml 2.6.13-grml #1 Sat Oct 22 11:05:29 CEST 2005 i586 GNU/Linux
grml@grml ~ % grml-version
0.5 Release Codename Tokolytika [2005-10-24]
grml@grml ~ %

Rocking :-)

We are "in the freeze phase" since sunday with pre-release grml 0.4-9. I fixed some minor stuff in the last few days and now I'm bringing documentation up to date and running some final checks. Tomorrow (friday) will be a last develmeeting before the new release is going to be published (planned for 24th of october). There have been so many improvements since grml 0.4 that writing the changelog is a really heavy task. :-)

BTW: Using the latest unionfs-release provides a working module-assistant even on live-CD. This means that you will be able to build your own kernelmodules in live-cd-mode of grml 0.5 now. :-)

Ok, probably and hopefully this was the last status message before grml 0.5 will be available - so stay tuned! :-)

Today I updated all my packages to latest upstream version. The following packages got up2date:

csync2, ded, dupseek, dmraid, ex, gateguardian, heirloom-sh, libacme-eyedrops-perl
md5deep, mwcollect, pmtools-acpi, shadowsfs, sudosh, yersinia

grml 0.5 is definitely coming closer. ;-) Now I'll update documentation, finish work on the new config framework and then the prerelease will be available for beta-testers. A few more days of bughunting and grml 0.5 will be available. :-)

The latest build of the grml-kernel (2.6.13-grml) has been integrated in the grml-ISO. Currently I'm updating all software packages, finish work on grml2hd and the config-fw. And of course I'm bugfixing and updating documentation.

The timeline for the upcoming release (if everything works like intended):

• ~15th of october: pre-release grml 0.4-9: available for beta-testers and developers; freeze of packages (no more updates, only fixes for grml-packages); Notice: last chance to get your software and updates into the upcoming release!
  

• ~24th of october: grml 0.5 will be released

Yesterday I installed a plain Debian sarge system, added the grml-repository to apt's sources.list and did an "apt-get install grml". And it worked :-) The debian system now uses grml's hardware recognition system. Even grml-x works right out of the box with Debian's XFree86 (grml provides X.org). I will create a script which does all the necessary steps to get a "debian system grml-ized". The "create a grml system out of a debian system" was a long time goal, but we are already very close to it. :-)