grml-small @ Cebit-Sarge-DVD

Wednesday, March 22. 2006

A special edition of grml-small (0.2c) is available on the Debian Sarge DVD by Linux New Media AG presented at Cebit 2006. Thanks to Alexander 'formorer' Wirt for sending me 4 DVDs and a Debian-keyring!

chemnitzer linuxdays 2006: done

Monday, March 6. 2006
We are back from Chemnitzer Linuxdays 2006. It was fun and I really enjoyed meeting all the other grml developers! Thanks to Timo 'Spida' Boettcher for sponsering a box of Club-Mate to the grml-team! :-) The slides of my german talk about grml are available online (1.5 MB, PDF). We also have some pics (by Karl Voit, thx!): clt06 gallery.

grml - Chemnitzer LinuxTage 2006 edition

Saturday, February 25. 2006
Main work on the special grml edition "Chemnitzer LinuxTage 2006" (grml-clt06) has been finished. Packages have been updated, we have some more new tools and minor bugfixes took place. Now we have to do some more testing before burning the CDs is on the todolist. The edition will be available exclusive for CLT06 visitors. If you visit my grml-talk your chances aren't that bad to receive a grml-clt06-CD. :-)

BTW: We'll have grml-develmeeting(s) at CLT06. If you want to get in contact with grml-developers feel free to do so! We are wearing black shirts. ;-) Of course with a grml-logo on it. :-)


grml @ chemnitzer linuxdays 2006

Wednesday, February 8. 2006
Chemnitzer LinuxTag 2006 takes place at the beginning of march. Several grml developers will be there, including myself. :-)

I will present grml in a lecture named "grml - Debian-basierte Live-CD für Systemadministratoren und Texttool-User". I'll introduce what is grml and give a technical overview what's behind grml. Of course I'll present some of the rocking features like handy stuff of the zsh, some nifty tools and full automatic installation via grml2hd.

I'm working on a grml CLT06 edition and will carry grml-CDs and grml-shirts with me. Hope to see you there!

grml 22c3 release

Thursday, December 22. 2005

I just finished work on the 'grml 22c3 release'. The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (December 27th to 30th, 2005) will take place in Berlin/Germany. I'm not on the event (lacking time), but several grml team members and beta-testers will be there! 'grml 22c3' is not a public release, it is only available for beta-testers and people at 22c3. It's a preview release of the upcoming grml 0.6 which will be available in january 2006.

Live Usability Tests

Thursday, November 3. 2005
I'm planning to run "live usability tests" with the grml-system within the next few weeks. grml is mainly used by sysadmins and texttool-freaks (as those users are the target audience ;-)). But it seems that a lot of people use grml because "it just works" even though they are neither sysadmins nor texttool-geeks.

grml shouldn't be only a distribution with good hardware recognition and "lots of the right tools" but also be comfortable to use. Running usability tests should help us to improve handling of grml.

I'm interested in your opinion regarding what kind of tests might be useful for grml. I already wrote down some basic steps but would like to get your feedback.

Last but not least: I'm searching for people in Graz/Styria who would like to be part of the usability study. It does not matter whether you are a sysadmin or texttool-user, I'm searching for people from all kinds of background. It won't take longer than 30 minutes per person and you will get one of the limited special-edition CDs of the grml 0.5-release for free.

Don't hesitate to contact me.

grml on linuxdays vienna 2005

Sunday, May 29. 2005

Jimmy and me were at Linuxdays Vienna 2005 on thursday and friday (the community days on 26th and 27th of mai). I had another talk about grml:

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The german slides are available online: grml-wien05.pdf [454k].

A more detailed, german report about the event is available in my personal blog.

BTW: I won the hacktivity show on friday evening and now I'm proud owner of a SuSE box. 8-)

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Grazer Linuxday 2005 - presented grml 0.4

Sunday, May 15. 2005

Yesterday Grazer Linuxdays 2005 took place. Several grml-developers (Mika, Jimmy, Gebi, Martin and Alfie) have been there, grml has had a booth between the Debian and the Gentoo guys. Flaming was fun of course. ;-)
Mika presented the upcoming grml release 0.4 in his talk. At the grml-booth we could provide >150 grml-CDs, thanks to our sponsors Sevian7 and Agami!

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grml-developers on chemnitzer linuxtag 2005

Wednesday, March 23. 2005

I nearly forgot to mention the developer-meeting at beginning of march 2005. Several grml-developers have been on Chemnitzer LinuxTag 2005. Some us of met each other for the first time in reallife. :-)

Pictures from Linuxday Klagenfurt

Friday, February 25. 2005
Gebi, Jimmy, Worf and me were on Linuxday Klagenfurt 2005 on 22nd of february. A webgallery is available online.