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Archive for January, 2011

Grazer Linuxtage 2011: Call for Lectures / Projects

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Am Samstag, dem 9. April 2011 finden an der FH Joanneum die Grazer Linuxtage 2011 (GLT11) statt. Die ganztägige Veranstaltung (9:00 bis 18:30 Uhr) richtet sich mit zahlreichen Vorträgen und Informationsständen nach den Interessen der Zielgruppen Anwender, Administratoren und Softwareentwickler. Soeben sind Call for Lectures und Call for Projects online gegangen. Wer auf den GLT11 […]

Grml User Survey 2011

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Grml users out there: We are interested in getting your feedback so we can further improve Grml. We are also working on a webpage which lists happy Grml users and also some quotes and use cases. Now we need your help: Please provide your feedback and take part in Grml’s user survey!

Booting ISO images from within GRUB2

Friday, January 7th, 2011

You might be aware of GRUB’s loopback option for booting an ISO, I wrote about it in Boot an ISO via Grub2 more than a year ago. A few months ago Goswin von Brederlow came up with this idea: grml functions great as rescue system. So it would be nice to have a boot entry […]

Simple DNS in chroots

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Update: Ulrich ‘mru’ Dangel suggested pdnsd as nice alternative to dnsmasq and Cyril ‘KiBi’ Brulebois pointed out, that it’s not necessary to invoke dnsmasq after fresh installation as it’s running by default then – I adjusted the text accordingly, thanks for the pointers! If /etc/resolv.conf doesn’t provide any nameserver entries glibc[1] will automatically initialize the […]