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Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account. […] Enjoy your trip back to the golden […]

My grml talk has been accepted for Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2005. Now I’ve to check out how to drive to Chemnitz. ;-) According to the (yet unofficial) program I’ll meet maaaany people who I can meet only on such events. ;-) I’ll even meet one of the grml developers for the first time in real […]

QEMU is an emulator for various CPUs. It works on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Inspired by user feedback I tried to run grml via QEMU on a windows box today. Worked like a charme, except that running it via emulation is much slower than running it in native mode. ;-)

Free Software Magazine is a free magazine for the free software world, available on paper and in electronic format. (pointer by Emanuele Rocca)

I just found out that “Linux Treiber entwickeln – Eine systematische Einführung in Gerätetreiber für den Kernel 2.6” by Jürgen Quade and Eva-Katharina Kunst (ISBN://3-89864-238-0) is available online. You might know parts of it from the german version of Linux Magazin. Have fun and enjoy reading it! :-)

Kriminalität: Prokop will Sicherheitsprogramm — Headline at orf.at (article) [english: crime: Prokop wants a security tool^Wprogram] Hey, I just released grml! 8-) (pointer by Martin)

grml 0.2 – Codename Satura is available. The new release brings 455 new packages and many new features like an updated hardware detection, new bootparameters and a kernel 2.6.9 including several patches. For details take a look at the release announcement and the grml website.

$ apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 Reading Package Lists… Error! E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. WTF? I did nothing since last time I used apt-get. Oh, not true. I updated grml-scripts and grml-etc. Let’s take a look at /var/lib/dpkg/status. Ah, 567 […]