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Project name looks like it was inspired by Grml :-)

GekkePrutser 5y ago
Yeah first thing I thought. It also sounds like it overlaps in functionality. I've used GRML for rescue stuff for many years. But this might be interesting too. One thing I'd love to have is to preload since defaults into the image. Like launching an SSH Daemon with a given private key so I can fix a system without a monitor
- fho 5y ago
  Iirc there was a time where grml just was not up to date anymore? I somewhat remember that it did not support btrfs at some point.
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    Could be, I never used btrfs. I do use ZFS heavily though, so that would definitely be a point for me. I see Hrmpf does have it so I'll check it out.
  - teddyh 5y ago
    Grml had a bit of a gap between the december 2018 release and the june 2020 release.
grandchild 5y ago
In German "hrmpf" is an exclamation and expression of frustration, with a possible connotation of acceptance that something has indeed gone wrong. So it’s a very apt name for a rescue system :)
- eloeffler 5y ago
  The percentage of consonants in this word induces serious amounts of Angstschweiß :)
  - smcl 5y ago
    [laughs in Czech] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk edit: wonder if we have any Welsh speakers here actually
    - lproven 5y ago
      "Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč." 7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.
      - rob74 5y ago
        Ok... and here I was thinking that a single word without vowels in Slovenian (Trst, the Slovenian name of the Italian city Trieste) was remarkable. Guess I have to reconsider that...
        lproven 5y ago
        Yugoslavia was famed for its critical vowel shortage: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-vowels.html https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v... ... However, speaking as a resident of Czechia, it's worse here. Consider that quote. The word "čtvrť" means _quarter_, as in Latin Quarter or Arab Quarter. It differs from the word "čtvrt" (meaning a quarter of a pizza, say) by the half a diacritic on the final letter T: ť. That diacritic modifies the following vowel — for example the famous shoe company is not Bata (bar-ta) but Baťa (bar-tya). In "čtvrť" the háček modifies the following vowel that isn't there and thus changes the meaning of the word. Czech is czallenging.
        smcl 5y ago
        Bonus complication while we're talking Czech orthography - "ch" is considered to be one letter. Have been stumped on some křižovky because of that.
      - smcl 5y ago
slightwinder 5y ago
Both are German names, following the same specific sense of naming. And looking around, Hrmpf seems to get inspirations from Grml, maybe even is a clone with different foundation?

Yeah first thing I thought. It also sounds like it overlaps in functionality. I've used GRML for rescue stuff for many years. But this might be interesting too. One thing I'd love to have is to preload since defaults into the image. Like launching an SSH Daemon with a given private key so I can fix a system without a monitor

fho 5y ago
Iirc there was a time where grml just was not up to date anymore? I somewhat remember that it did not support btrfs at some point.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  Could be, I never used btrfs. I do use ZFS heavily though, so that would definitely be a point for me. I see Hrmpf does have it so I'll check it out.
- teddyh 5y ago
  Grml had a bit of a gap between the december 2018 release and the june 2020 release.

grandchild 5y ago

In German "hrmpf" is an exclamation and expression of frustration, with a possible connotation of acceptance that something has indeed gone wrong. So it’s a very apt name for a rescue system :)

eloeffler 5y ago
The percentage of consonants in this word induces serious amounts of Angstschweiß :)
- smcl 5y ago
  [laughs in Czech] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C4%8D_prst_skrz_krk edit: wonder if we have any Welsh speakers here actually
  - lproven 5y ago
    "Blb vlk pln žbrnd zdrhl hrd z mlh Brd skrz vrch Smrk v čtvrť srn Krč." 7 years of study and this language still terrifies me.
    - rob74 5y ago
      Ok... and here I was thinking that a single word without vowels in Slovenian (Trst, the Slovenian name of the Italian city Trieste) was remarkable. Guess I have to reconsider that...
      - lproven 5y ago
        Yugoslavia was famed for its critical vowel shortage: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-vowels.html https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v... ... However, speaking as a resident of Czechia, it's worse here. Consider that quote. The word "čtvrť" means _quarter_, as in Latin Quarter or Arab Quarter. It differs from the word "čtvrt" (meaning a quarter of a pizza, say) by the half a diacritic on the final letter T: ť. That diacritic modifies the following vowel — for example the famous shoe company is not Bata (bar-ta) but Baťa (bar-tya). In "čtvrť" the háček modifies the following vowel that isn't there and thus changes the meaning of the word. Czech is czallenging.
        smcl 5y ago
        Bonus complication while we're talking Czech orthography - "ch" is considered to be one letter. Have been stumped on some křižovky because of that.
    - smcl 5y ago

slightwinder 5y ago

Both are German names, following the same specific sense of naming. And looking around, Hrmpf seems to get inspirations from Grml, maybe even is a clone with different foundation?