Something scared me on GRML's to-do list.
http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=todo
Todo for grml 0.6 Ubuntu's FasterBoot
The reason I am "scared" is that GRML is light years beyond Ubuntu in live booting (w/hardware detection). Ubuntu should be learning from GRML, not vice-versa.
Ubuntu took 7 times longer to boot my workstation than Knoppix (let alone GRML). Others report similar results, http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=11998&comment_id=36650
Ubuntu developers admit their live boot stuff is a huge mess, unmaintainable, and will be scrapped. That's what their "FasterBoot" initiative is partly about. But GRML is already there!
I like very much GRML's pure-Debianized-Knoppix approach, which is so much faster and better than Ubuntu's modified-Morphix-Gnoppix junk. GRML gives all benefits of Knoppix without drawbacks in terms of Debian standards.
Mark