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locale and keyboard layout grml
by gilberto dos santos alves 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

hi. i use grml since 2010 and lot of times i recovery servers, linux, windows etc. here in brazil we use pt_BR (with locale latin1 or utf8). in debian/ubuntu we use us international keyboard layout for produce characters like (~, ç, ã, õ, á, à etc). in pt_BR keyboard layouts we have abnt and abnt2 (associação brasileira de normas tecnicas www.abnt.org.br). debian and ubuntu already handle this ok. Please i not understant grml.org docs for procedures that create these for grml. it is possivel include these possibilities of keyboard and locale? best regards from brazil! -- gilberto dos santos alves +55.11.98646-5049 são paulo - sp - brasil

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Request for help: Persistency on Grml
by Michael Prokop 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

Hi! As you might know Grml provides a feature named persistency which allows you to store your settings/software and reuse them on reboot. The code that provides that feature is part of Debian's live-boot, which is what we're using as base for our live-boot-grml. The relevant bootoption was renamed from "persistent" to "persistence" by Debian's live-boot developers recently, sadly our docs at http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=persistency don't match reality anymore. As Charles Hewson already noted in the Grml wiki (thanks, Charles!) the best resources WRT persistency are man live-boot, live-persistence.conf and live-snapshot as well as http://live.debian.net/manual/html/live-manual/customizing-run-time-behavio… Note: the live-manual matches the behaviour of the old "persistent" code, not the one with "persistence" yet. A discussion around those changes are available in the thread at https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2012/04/msg00110.html Is there anyone willing to help us in improving the persistency documentation for Debian/Grml? regards, -mika-

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New Grml developer: Markus Ulrich
by Michael Prokop 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hi Grml-ers, I'm happy to be able to announce that Markus 'bionix' Ulrich just joined the Grml team. Please welcome Markus as offical Grml developer. Welcome in the team, Markus! regards, -mika-

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Grml - new stable release 2012.05 available
by Michael Prokop 30 Mai '12

30 Mai '12

Hi, we just released Grml 2012.05 - Ponyhof. Thanks for all the feedback we received for our 2011.12 release, we took it serious and hope that everyone finds 2012.05 such a wonderful release as we consider it to be. There were some changes between 2012.05-rc1 and the new stable release. The most important ones are: • Update to Kernel 3.3.7 • Added sysstat (and imvirt-helper was pulled in as dependency) • Fixed Grub2, iPXE and MirOS bsd4grml boot options for 64bit ISO • Added wallpaper • Fixed lang boot option for grml-small flavour As you might notice the grml-small flavour came back. So it's two flavours (grml-full + grml-small) and two architectures (x86 + amd64) now. The grml96 option - which provides the x86 and the amd64 version on one single ISO (grml96 = grml32 + grml64) - is available for your service as well. We want to thank all the people involved in this awesome release. The Grml Developers, our Contributors and all the other people involved in this release. More information is available in the release notes of Grml 2012.05: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2012.05/ Now download the latest Grml ISO and spread the word! http://grml.org/download/ regards, -mika-

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First Release Candidate of Grml version 2012.05 released
by Michael Prokop 25 Mai '12

25 Mai '12

Hi, so we did it again, the first release candidate of the upcoming version 2012.05, code-named 'Ponyhof' was just released. For detailed information about the changes between 2011.12 and 2012.05 have a look at the official release announcement: http://grml.org/changelogs/README-grml-2012.05-rc1/ Several tools that have been reported to be missing on the downsized 2011.12 release have been re-added. This release also brings the grml-small flavour back to life. Please test the ISOs and everything you usually use and report back, so we can complete the stable release soon. If no major problems come up, the next iteration will be the stable release, which is scheduled for end of May. regards, -mika-

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New Grml developer: Evgeni Golov
by Michael Prokop 16 Mai '12

16 Mai '12

Hi Grml-ers, I'm proud to be able to announce that the Grml team just grew again: Please welcome Evgeni 'zhenech' Golov as official Grml core developer! Welcome in the Grml team, Evgeni! regards, -mika-

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Testing current daily ISOs to go towards new release
by Michael Prokop 15 Mai '12

15 Mai '12

Hi, the current Grml daily ISOs (http://daily.grml.org/) feature a fresh 3.3.4 Linux kernel and I plan to work towards a 2012-05-rc0 release throughout the next days. Everyone who wants to see 2012-05-rc0 actually happen is invited to grab the current daily ISOs (the testing flavours of grml-full + grml-small, 64bit and 32bit) and report any issues we should address before releasing rc0. Let's get ready to rumble :) regards, -mika-

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making hardware speech work
by John Heim 14 Mai '12

14 Mai '12

I was wondering if the grml team would be interested in making hardware speech work in grml. I have a kernel patch that fixes a problem in the linux screen reader, speakup, to make it work with certain hardware speech synthesizers. I don't know how to get it into the actual kernel code and I haven't even tried yet. But the patch file can be downloaded here: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/downloads/patch-2012-03-06.patch Then you cd to your linux source dir and do this: patch -i patch-2012-03-06.patch drivers/staging/speakup/serialio.c" If you do that, you could also include a udev rules file that starts speech automatically if certain hardware synths are connected at boot time. That file is here: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/downloads/10-speakup.rules

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planning to switch back, a couple of questions
by Doug Smith 14 Mär '12

14 Mär '12

Ok, and hi, there. This is Doug with a bit of good news. One of your blind grmlers is coming home. I just have to know the answers to a couple of questions, and I will give you the reason why I decided to take the nestea plunge, so to speak. First of all, I know how to start speakup on the live cd. press q and return to be sure you're out of that quick config menu and can work in the console. modprobe speakup_soft; espeakup Then hit return twice. What I want to know is this: How can I have an accessible login that will start speaking when I need to log in on a hard disk installation of grml? Don't worry, I have performed a blue billion of these and I know just how to avoid accidents. I know you do not necessarily encourage installs. The next question I have is this: What happens on a hard disk install? For example, I have everything talking when I install. Will it still be there when I reboot the installed system? If yes, then great. If not, all my work will not be in vain, grml is always better to me than that. I have always been able to get myself out of messes. My next question is: if I need to put speakup_soft start = 1 in the /etc/modules file so that it will be loaded on startup, that's no problem. The question is where do I put the startup for espeakup so that it comes up talking at the login screen? If that's not the solution, will I still have the four beeps when grml has finished booting? Now, the final question. Are there any other blind grmlers who are using edbrowse? The reason I wonder about all this is because I have found it supports javascript. I hope it will work on radio station sites and other sites with streaming media when using mplayer to actually play the media. Is this true? Will I be able to stream radio stations live, use http://www.dishonline.com, access my http://www.learningally account, play internet radio on http://www.jango.com, watch youtube videos and videos from http://www.nascar.com if I use mplayer to actually play the streams and fix this in the configuration file? I have read, over there on the speakup mailing list about people who use latex for their formatted writing projects. They say its better than any word processor on the commercial market today. How do you view the formatted results of your work with a command line program? What do you use? Well, that's about all I have to ask for now. Now, I want to tell you why I decided to finally try to come back home. In the GUI world, there are many changes going on on. Right now, it's broken this and inaccessible that. Not only that, I am sick and tired and fed up to here with graphical interfaces. I have had to use them for the last couple or three years, and that is just so unnatural to me, a person who was raised on the command line. The common response to this is: "We have had the command line since day one and we have been trying to get away from it since day two." Well, I respond this way: You have had the graphical interface since day 2 and I have been trying to get away from that since day 2.5. It is just so unnatural to go tabbing and arrowing around and alt-tabbing and shift-tabbing and control-shift-tabbing around to get an app to work. I just like the good old program options files and off it goes to do my bidding. If I can get answers to these questions, I will be coming back soon. I hope to bring some other blind people with me in the future. Well, that should do it for now. I am sure you are tired of reading my ramblings. Please get back to me as soon as possible. Sincerely yours: Doug Smith

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lynx browser and playing audio
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 10 Mär '12

10 Mär '12

Hello, i have installed grml squeeze on my netbook. I use lynx as browser. If i try to play a mp3-file or an other audio-file out of lynx, the alsaplayer will be started, bat a error appears on the bootom of lynx. If i look in /tmp/user/1000/ there is a tempory file of the audio-file mit the extension ".m4a". any ideas? What can i do or what is the mechanismus of lynx to play audio and to create the file "*.m4a"? Thanks for your help. Regards Dietmar

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