Core developers of grml are students at Graz University of Technology. Therefore we are also interested in providing a perfect development suite and platform for students.
Of course some other useful tools like exuberant-ctags, cbrowser, cscope, doxygen, indent, diff/diffstat, dirdiff, graphviz, patch, rdiskk and wdiff are also available.
The Java implementation by Sun isn't part of grml due to it's overhead. We recommend a harddisk installation of grml via grml2hd and installing Sun's Java/JRE afterwards. Just get the j2re.bin-file from java.sun.com and then run:
sudo apt-get install java-package fakeroot make-jpkg j2re-*.bin sudo dpkg -i sun-j2re*.deb update-alternatives --config java
Starting with version 0.5 grml provides the smaller and very fast kaffe/jikes-kaffe implementation!
Students often have to write documents like reports, papers, ADDs (Architectural Design Documents), DDDs (Detailed Design Document), presentations and diploma thesis. Very common for this kind of documents is LaTeX - a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Another - but not so common - layout system is lout (Typesetting system, an alternative to (La)TeX). Both are part of grml of course.
grml provides several clients for revision control systems: cvs, subversion, darcs, bazaar, bzr (bazaar-ng), tla and rcs. Communicate with other students via icq/jabber/msn/… with centericq, read newsgroups with newsreader slrn (take a look at 'grml-slrn'!), read your mails with mutt or mutt-ng (take a look at 'grml-mutt' or 'grml-muttng'!) and browse the web either with w3m, links/links2, elinks, lynx, dillo, w3-el-e21/emacs or firefox!
Take a look at 'grml-vpnc-tug' if you need access to the WLAN of TUG, you only need to enter your username and password and that's it! 'grml-pptp-vcgraz' let's you connect via VC-Graz, 'grml-pptp-inode' for a XDSL@home-connection at Inode and 'grml-pptp-students' for XDSL@students.