Yes, have a look at htop instead.
atop/htop I don't care so much about, but, buffer is more of an issue.
Ouch! Even lzop is gone! This is 2/3 or a command I use very often!
buffer -i <device> -z256k -p75 -m10m | lzop | buffer | nc <hostname>
And while I can always fake buffer with 'dd' and bad performance, if I have a backup in .lzop format, I'm just screwed now!
I'm unconvinced that filling 50% of iso images with unused stuff (64 unused on 32, 32 unused on 64...) is an ideal trade-off. I'm just sayin...
Hm? The default images are 64bit or 32bit only.
I guess I was figuring that the cute point of going from 700mb to 350mb was to fit both images on the 96.
Frankly, I boot GRML from 4GB USB sticks, which are costing $8, I don't even put an optical drive in machines anymore. I do not see the point of reducing functionality. For what? Bandwidth is going up, media sizes are going up, prices are going down... I think it is a good idea to keep the media size at CDROM size or less, but, 350? I do - not - see - the - point! I mean, what media are smaller than 700 and larger than 300? How many people are going to prefer the quicker download? First ubuntu, now grml? <rant='off'/>
When I read the description, I thought, this sounds fine, after all, I don't need my sysadmin tool to have 50 zillion window managers... but I didn't expect to find text-mode command-line tools I use like buffer and atop gone! Now I'm afraid to look to see what else is missing that matters...
Now, I love smallifying more than _anyone_ - tomsrtbt was my doing, back in the day - and I could certainly figure out how to customize and add stuff in.
But, the reality is that I switched from my own tomsrtbt to knoppix and then to grml because they "just worked" - grml has the lvm2 and the swraid and the command line tools I need - it had become the 'answer' to my bootable system needs. For me, going from 700=>350 has no "upside", with a fast connection and a 4GB USB stick.
Glancing through the "removed" list, I don't _know_ i'll need arj or bin86 or cpuburn or dsniff or expect or fatattr or gdb or hexedit or info or etcetera during a recovery situation - but I know I'd rather have them than not have them!
Is the "full" version just *gone*? I really *liked* the mix of software there!
-ack! -Tom