Grml 2025.05 – codename Nudlaug
Debian hard freeze on 2025-05-15? We bring you a new Grml release on top of that! 2025.05 🚀 – codename Nudlaug.
There’s plenty of new stuff, check out our official release announcement for all the details. But I’d like to highlight one feature that I particularly like: SSH service announcement with Avahi. The grml-full flavor ships Avahi, and when you enable SSH, it automatically announces the SSH service on your local network. So when f.e. booting Grml with boot option `ssh=debian`, you should be able to login on your Grml live system with `ssh grml@grml.local` and password ‘debian‘:
% insecssh grml@grml.local Warning: Permanently added 'grml.local' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts. grml@grml.local's password: Linux grml 6.12.27-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.27-1 (2025-05-06) x86_64 Grml - Linux for geeks grml@grml ~ %
Hint: grml-zshrc provides that useful shell alias `insecssh`, which is aliased to `ssh -o “StrictHostKeyChecking=no” -o “UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null”`. Using those options, you aren’t storing the SSH host key of the (temporary) Grml live system (permanently) in your UserKnownHostsFile.
BTW, you can run `avahi-browse -d local _ssh._tcp –resolve -t` to discover the SSH services on your local network. 🤓
Happy Grml-ing!