* Kevin Jones kevin@kevinrj.net [20060224 04:15]:

I'm in a computer forensics class and they're using the helix cd. However, it's heavily gui oriented, so not the best choice for screen reader users. I think forensics can be added to the description of grml as being for text tools and network administrators.

Hehe yes :)

I found another forensic specific linux cd called "the penguin sleuthkit" put together by Ernest Baca Ernest has a list of 38 tools he felt were esential for a linux cd to be acceptable for forensic use. Grml has 34 out of 38 of these tools; very nice. the entire list of tools can be found at http://luge.cc.emory.edu/psl.html The list of 4 tools not currently in grml is 4. glimpse - Command line data indexing and searching tool. Need external storage to run properly - www.webglimpse.net

Thanks for hint, the tool probably will be shipped with the next grml-release.

8. fenris - Multipurpose tracer - razor.bindview.com/tools/fenris/

fenris was shipped until grml 0.5. The latest debian package was available on 13-Jun-2005. It has been removed from the debian pool, quoting http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322601 ->

"There's one RC bug reported against it (#319562), which I think requires some help from the upstream author, but he doesn't respond to mails."

And quoting the project homepage http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/fenris/devel.shtml ->

"currently serving version 0.07-m2 build 3245 (3270kB), uploaded at Sunday, 11 July 2004, 01:44 EST"

AFAICS it is not supported and developed anymore and I do not know anyone using fenris nowadays.

20. TCPtraceroute - Command line traceroute TCP packages -

michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/

tcptraceroute is available on grml (tcptraceroute 1.5beta6-1).

37. dig - Command line tool for querying domain name servers - read man page

(man dig)

dig is shipped with grml of course, it's part of the dnsutils package.

I'm still increasingly impressed the longer I've been playing with grml, and have been telling my friends.

Hehe great :)

One question I have is does grml have many sighted users considering that it doesn't have much of a gui interface?

Sorry, I don't understand your question. Do you mean GUIs for sighted users or GUIs for non-sighted users? grml provides the console with all it's capabilities and as well the X window system (through running grml-x....).

regards, -mika-