Grml 2017.05 "Freedatensuppe" Distro Enters Development Based on Debian Stretch

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Debian-based Grml GNU/Linux distribution designed for system administrators is once again in development after taking a long break of approximately two and a half years.

Dubbed “Freedatensuppe,” the next major release of the operating system is versioned Grml 2017.05, and a first Release Candidate (RC) build is now available for public testing. Development of Grml 2017.05 is currently based on the Debian Testing branch, which will soon become Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch.”

Therefore, the Grml 2017.05 RC1 development release includes packages taken from the Debian Testing repositories as of May 7, 2017. It contains a total of 64 newly added packages, but 63 other packages have been removed from this release, and you can see details about each shipped package and its version here.

Grml 2017.05 will be powered by the Linux 4.9 kernel series

Among the major changes coming to the Grml 2017.05 release, we … (read more)

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