new release candidates: grml 1.1-rc1, grml64 0.2-rc1, grml[64]-medium 0.1-rc1

Friday, December 28. 2007

Finally it's done - we have new release candidates:

Summarizing the development of more than 7 month of development for the release notes was a pretty tough job. 7 month you might ask? Yes, for the first time we have a longer delay than the usual ~3 month between two stable releases. The reason is simple: we wrote a new build framework named grml-live and reworked the build process therefore. Thanks to grml-live we are able to autobuild grml-ISOs in several different flavours and on different architectures without the need for any further manual interaction. This allows us to provide automatically generated daily snapshots of grml to the public (as you might know already). Now we have the first releases of grml being based on the work of grml-live. Enjoy!

Posted by mika in general at 23:27 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

update of daily.grml.org and development news

Friday, December 21. 2007

The webpage of daily.grml.org has been reworked - thanks to the ideas and feedback by Henning Sprang. The page is more clearly arranged now so hopefully you'll find the according ISO even faster. :) If you have any further ideas how to improve the webpage please let me know! Disclaimer: the daily builds are not really up2date right now because we are pretty close to a new stable release now... anyway, I'll provide updated builds soon again...

Some news from the development front: I'm busy working on the new stable releases. Hopefully I'll be able to provide release candidates really soon now and the final stable releases should be available within the next 1-2 weeks as well. The are only a few last release stoppers left...

Posted by mika in general at 23:49 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

grml-paste: command line interface for paste.grml.org

Thursday, December 13. 2007

Thanks to Nico we have a command line interface for paste.grml.org now: grml-paste :-)

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grml in c't special "Netzwerke"

Wednesday, December 12. 2007

You can find a pre-release of the upcoming grml 1.1 as part of "c't special 02/2008 Netzwerke" magazine.

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grml-live: ZLIB vs. LZMA

Sunday, December 9. 2007

I just made some benchmarks between ZLIB and LZMA compression at squashfs, thanks to grml-live (which provides a commandline option and config option for switching) that's a trivial task now:

  • grml flavour: grml-medium
  • using LZMA: 164MB ISO, build time 725 seconds
  • using ZLIB: 183MB ISO, build time 254 seconds

So whereas the build time increases the benefit is a smaller ISO, which is quite important for live systems that want to ship as many useful tools as possible. :-)

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