grml
Grml (read: Grumble ) is an existing since January 2005, based on Debian / sid Linux distribution and runs primarily as a live system. Grml was designed as a small rescue system with a flexible start process. Originally based on Knoppix, is grml has now evolved into a separate Debian-GNU/Linux-Derivat intended " as a rescue system for System Admin Trat ions". The current version of grml, 2013.09 based on Debian Wheezy. Maintainer is Michael Prokop, a Debian developer from Austria.
- 3.2.1 grml -small
- 3.2.2 grml -full
Skills
Grml is designed as a live system. The ability to install grml as a real system with individual partitions on the hard disk, the developers have now discarded. If you want to use the advantages of Grml permanently engages ideally to Debian. Debian can be installed with Grml on the hard disk with the tool grml - debootstrap. Means grml2usb can Grml but on a flash memory as a USB flash drive and install Grml can then be started from there. Grml is suitable for system administrators and users of text-based tools. Originally grml was available only for x86 ( 32 -bit). Since the project has reached version 1.0, there are also grml for the AMD64 architecture.
Noteworthy is the very flexible start process can be engaged at an early stage by the control files on the boot medium in the. This allows the creation of specialized rescue systems with little effort. Start parameters as the default for the network configuration, the installation of additional packages and run individual scripts can be saved.
WLAN with WPA is also supported.
Equipment
In order to keep the system compact, dispensing with the large WIMP desktop environments KDE and Gnome. Instead, come small, fast window manager like fluxbox, openbox and wmii used.
For space reasons, dispense grml on Apache OpenOffice and provides for many other programs available ( emacs, joe, nano, vim, etc. ), the other Live CDs, such as Knoppix, not capable of delivering. As an interactive shell zsh is used, but there are also many other shells, such as Bash, Dash, ksh, and tcsh included.
Variants
Former versions
Grml -medium
From February 2008 ( grml 1.1) until 2011.05 existed grml -medium, which was located between the standard version and grml -small. Although an X server and the window manager Fluxbox is included, but the scope was still smaller than in Grml full. Grml medium was smaller than ISO image in the first version than 200 MB and later about 210 MB in size.
Current variants
Grml -small
Grml -small is a minimalist rescue system, which is about 150 MB in size as an ISO file. It is intended for the repair of damaged systems. While waived application- oriented packages, Graphical User Interface, man pages, etc., contains grml -small, the most important utilities to diagnose and resolve network and storage problems. By Schnelldekompression is software with about 300 MB in size about 150 MB compressed image size. Thus, the system adjusts for example, small 256 MB USB storage device ( USB flash drive) or business card CD -ROMs.
Grml -full
The standard Grml received from version 2012.05 for the first time a unique name grml -full. It is an ISO file about 350 MB in size. It has all the features. It is a graphical user interface ( Fluxbox ) and for example the Firefox browser that has the name Iceweasel installed. Instead of three, six ttys enabled. In addition, several other programs are installed for the console that had no place on the stripped-down version. Up to version 2011.05, this version was still about 700 MB in size; due to the then introduced " grml -96 " variant, the 32 - and contains 64 -bit version is available for each of the two architectures, only half of a CD- ROM.
Architectures
Both grml -small and grml -full available for architectures i686 ( 32-bit) and x86_64 ( 64-bit). In addition, both models are in a combined (and thus twice as large ) version, which consists of two architectures and automatically at boot detects whether the CPU supports the 64 -bit mode and then starts the appropriate system. This variant was previously called " Out for both" and today grml -96 and was first released with version 2011.12.
Grml derivatives
- Lark