Features and main goals of grml

• distribution for sysadmins and users of text tools
• Debian based distribution [use existing infrastructure]
• usability by the visually impaired right out of the box
• small and geeky community

grml - Linux for zsh lovers

grml provides more than 2500 software packages. Excluding library stuff, more than 1700 packages remain. We don't ship KDE and OpenOffice, but more than 800 packages which for example Knoppix does not provide. You'll get sysadmin's favourite tools, security- and network-related software, data recovery- and forensic-tools, LaTeX, many editors, shells, and of course many texttools. Choose between different flavours (grml, grml-medium and grml-small) and a x86 and a amd64 version depending on your needs.

grml provides several scripts and utils which make life easier. zsh is configured with the completion mechanism. grml-x is a wrapper for configuring and using the X window system. grml-crypt is a program that provides an easy wrapper arround cryptsetup, mkfs, losetup and mount. grml-tips provides useful tips and tricks for daily life on the command line. grml-vpn is a program to establish encrypted communication channels in a network, and so on...

See the FAQ for some Frequently Asked Questions.

You can browse the list of software (packages) provided by grml - check out the Debian section at grml.org/files/.