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A bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection.You can use grml for example as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you don't even need a harddisk to run it.Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2 GiB of software and documentation on the CD.grml provides more than 1900 software packages. Excluding library stuff still more than 1400 packages remain. We don't ship KDE and OpenOffice but more than 700 packages Knoppix does not provide.grml provides several scripts und utils which make live easier. zsh is configured with the completion mechanism. grml-x is a wrapper for using the X window system.People from VC Graz for example can get a PPTP tunnel via calling the script grml-pptp-vcgraz (enter username and password - that's it!). Writing config files on the readonly filesystem is possible via running the script grml-bind. Here are some key features of "grml": · distribution for users of text tools and sysadmins · debian and knoppix based distribution · usability for visually handicapped people right out of the box · small and geeky community What's New in This Release: · The new stable version 2009.10 was just released. New features: 'vesamenu' bootsplash - provides an easy-to-use boot selection menu; the ISO can be installed to a device directly using dd; integration of Etherboot/gPXE; integration of GRUB; boot option 'nostartx' - if using startx as default boot option the bootoption 'nostartx' disables automatic startup of X; boot option 'ethdevice' - use specified network device for network booting (PXE) instead of default; boot option 'netscript' - use this parameter to download and run a script from a specific location.
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