grml development blog

We have a new develrelease. A lot of work took place. Quoting main changelog of my mail to betatesters and grml developers :

• added new packages (excluding xserver* and lib* stuff):
  aircrack-ng cdck cedet-common classpath classpath-common cpuid debian-goodies fvwm fvwm-crystal grep-dctrl habak jamvm jikes mktemp mysql-client-5.0 ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.7 openafs-modules-2.6.16-grml pktstat pymacs python-minimal python-mode remind trayer tzdata unionfs-tools wpagui wyrd
• updated to X.org 7.0
• new default font (Lat15-Terminus16) on plain console
• fixed problems mentioned @ grml-wiki grml 0.7
• removed kaffe, added jikes and jamvm instead
• added scripts blacklist + unblacklist: [un]blacklist a specific kernelmodule during runtime via /etc/modprobe.d/grml
• grml-network: big update (see yourself :))
• grml-postfix: reworked, now executing 'dpkg-reconfigure postfix'
• grml-autoconfig interface: read in already set values so the current configuration is visible to the user
• grml2hd: added support for setting hostname through script 'grml-hostname'
• reworked grml2hd-utils
• grml-x completion: check for present window-managers and don't use a static list
• added window manager fvwm-crystal: we have to tune it a little bit (reduce size, adjust wallpaper, keybindings), but it definitely rocks! Give it a try and also take a look at the keyboard bindings

grml2hd-utils seems to be quite unknown as it isn't visible in any interfaces by default. Now I've reworked it for better integration within grml2hd. You might know remove-packages-server already, the script which removes packages you probably don't want on your grml harddisk system. The new 'install-packages-useful' script is similar to Ubuntu's 'Easy Ubuntu' and provides very simple installation of some useful packages (guess why the name ;-)). install-packages-office allows you to install OpenOffice, Gimp and some other packages useful at offices. grml2hd-fix fixes some small issues from the grml Live-CD, nothing serious to worry about - it's just for getting debsums running without warnings. ;-)

Finally: grml2hd allows you to set hostname, as too many people don't know how to manage this using Debian's available mechanism.

The features will be shipped with the next develrelease which will be available soon for betatesters.

Reminder: If you are using grml in a productive environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to subscribe to the grml-user mailinglist!

Timo 'Spida' Boettcher joined the grml-team. He is known as the bug-hunter #1. :-)

grml 0.7 - Codename Bootenschnitzl is available!

The new release brings 48 new packages and many new features. For details take a look at the release announcement.