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9 :::::::: version 0.5 ::::::
10 :::: codename Tokolytika ::
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14 GRML - Knoppix for sysadmins and users of text tools
15 ====================================================
17 grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on Knoppix and Debian. grml includes a
18 collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system
19 administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for
20 example as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
21 environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you don't
22 even need a harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes
23 about 2.1 GiB of software and documentation on the CD.
27 grml 0.5 can be downloaded from http://grml.org/download/
30 Release 0.5 - Codename Tokolytika (20051024)
31 ============================================
33 Fixed several bugs, including:
35 #16 in "man grml-scripts" the program grml-init is mentioned twice
36 #17 grml-docs: Spelling error of "resources" on the grml startpage
37 #18 grml-0.4: booting with 'testcd' complains about 'files not found'
39 Several improved, updated and extended configuration files.
41 New grml-scripts (some selected ones):
43 * save-config save configuration in bzip2 compressed tar archive
44 * restore-config restore configuration
45 * noeject avoid ejecting of CD-ROM and prompting for it.
46 Use it via 'noeject <cmd>' (where <cmd>
47 is either reboot or halt)
48 * service wrapper script for /etc/init.d/-scripts,
49 use it e.g. via 'service postfix start'
50 * grml2usb create bootable usb-stick (using a grml-iso
53 New bootparameters/cheatcodes (some selected ones):
55 * serial - activate serial console (tty1+ttyS0 and start mgetty)
56 * hd - boot from (local) primary harddisk
57 * bootchart - run performance analysis and visualization of bootprocess,
58 see /var/log/bootchart.tgz and bootchart-view; take a look
59 at http://www.bootchart.org/ for further information
60 * startx[=windowmanager] - start X window system instead of consoles,
61 if no option is given then fluxbox will be taken as default,
62 you can specify any other window manager available on grml
63 as parameter. For example use 'startx=wmii' to start X window
64 system with wmii (through running 'grml-x wmii')
65 * grml2hd - automatic installation running grml2hd, requires additional
66 bootparameters, see bootsplash F9 for more details, usage example:
67 grml2hd partition=/dev/hda1 mbr=/dev/hda filesystem=ext3 user=mika
68 -> this will install grml to present partition /dev/hda1 using
69 ext3 filesystem, adding user mika and installing lilo to MBR of
70 /dev/hda; passwords of user root and user are 'grml'
71 * netconfig=server.tld/config.tbz - download configuration archive and extract it
72 This bootparameter is part of the new config framework:
73 http://grml.org/config/
77 * full automatic installation to harddisk via bootparameter grml2hd possible
78 * framework grml-autoconfig: configure hardware-detection
79 via configuration file /etc/grml/autoconfig or its interface
80 script namend 'grml-autoconfig' - especially useful on harddisk
82 * configuration-framework: new bootparameters and scripts (save-config
83 and restore-config), see http://grml.org/config/ and 'man save-config'
85 * integration of hotplug-light: speeds up booting
86 * got rid of all knoppix packages: this means you get a clean
87 Debian unstable system with some additional packages available
88 through the grml repository on http://grml.org/repos/
89 All packages which are responsible for the core of the grml system
90 and provided by the grml team are namend 'grml-*'.
94 * Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.13.4 including several patches
95 (MPPC/MPPE, Reiser4, Speakup, Squashfs,...) and additional
98 acx100, at76c503a, bcm4400, bcm5700, drbd0.7, eagle-usb, fuse,
99 hostap, ieee80211, ipw2100, ipw2200, ivtv0.4, kqemu,
100 linux-wlan-ng, lufs, madwifi, ndiswrapper, openafs, pcan,
101 pwc, qc-usb, realtime-lsm, rt2400, rt2500, shfs, spca5xx,
102 thinkpad, tidev, vaiostat, zd1211
104 Some more modules (for example fglrx and nvidia) are not
105 pre-installed but available through the grml-repository.
107 * We decided to deactivate SMP-support because we noticed
108 troubles on some laptops (causing kerneloops, problems
109 with booting and ACPI).
111 * We decided to compile the kernel with gcc4 and with optimation
112 for 586 for improving performance.
114 * We are packaging udev on our own to provide perfect integration
115 with the kernel shipped with grml. We are syncing packages
116 with upstream and the debian version. Works together with
117 hotplug-light and upcoming versions of udev will deprecate
120 See http://grml.org/kernel/ for more details regarding the grml-kernel.
124 * Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20051016 plus
125 important updates (priority >low) until 20051023.
126 * Updated memtest to Memtest86+ V1.55.
127 * Updated windows-binaries (putty-collection/winscp) to latest version.
129 - full automatic (non-interactive) installation
130 - support for reiser4 (still experimental, problems with lilo)
131 - support for new grml-autoconfig framework
132 - improved error handling
133 -> See http://grml.org/grml2hd/ for more details.
135 Removed 231 packages [please notice that some of them are available
136 under different names/in different packages]:
140 apt-proxy aspell aspell-bin aspell-de aspell-en bashburn bass beecrypt2
141 binutils-dev blt busybox-cvs-static clusterssh comerr-dev ctetris
142 ddcxinfo-knoppix debian-goodies devfsd dhcp-client dlocate dosemu
143 dosemu-freedos ettercap foomatic-bin foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine
144 foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters freenx g++-3.3 gksu gpsdrive grep-dctrl
145 grml-kudzu grml-xf86config gtk-engines-qtpixmap hotplug hotplug-utils
146 html-format hwsetup imlib1 ipw2100-nonfree isdn-config jablicator kbdconfig
147 kwtools-sys-raid latex2html ldaptor-utils libapache-mod-php4 loop-aes-utils
148 lufs modconf mouseconfig myspell-de-at myspell-de-de myspell-en-us normalize
149 nxagent nxlibs nxproxy nxviewer ocaml-base pciutils-dev perl-tk pgmonitor php4
150 php4-common php4-mysql php4-pgsql php4-sqlite postgresql postgresql-client
151 postgresql-contrib prism54 prism54-nonfree python-bsddb3 python-dev
152 python-foomatic python-ldaptor python-psyco python-pyparsing python-pyrex
153 python-tk python-twisted python2.3-dev python2.3-ldaptor python2.3-psyco
154 python2.3-pyrex python2.3-tk python2.3-twisted qt3-dev-tools quagga render-dev
155 rubybook s10sh scanmodem selinux-utils sl-modem-daemon slang1-utf8-dev
156 smbconf-pfeifle spl squashfs-tools sysv-rc timidity trans-de-en translate
157 usbmount util-vserver vserver-debiantools wordtrans-data x-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev
158 xlibmesa-glu xlibmesa-glu-dev xlibs-static-dev xorg-common xprt xprt-common
159 xserver-3dlabs xserver-8514 xserver-agx xserver-i128 xserver-mach32
160 xserver-mach64 xserver-mach8 xserver-p9000 xserver-s3 xserver-s3v xserver-svga
161 xserver-vga16 xserver-w32 zlib1g-dev zsh-beta-doc zsh30-doc zsh30-static
163 Added 262 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.13-grml*):
165 3ware-3dm2-old-binary 915resolution acovea acpitool acx100-firmware
166 alsa-oss antlr aptsh asn1c bandwidthd-pgsql binfmt-support binfmtc
167 bootchart bsdiff bsdtar busybox calcurse cdecl cdrecord-prodvd-binary
168 clex codeville connect-proxy cowdancer cpm cpp-4.0 cracklib-runtime
169 crosshurd csync2 ctapi-cyberjack ctris dconf dcraw dctrl-tools ddclient
170 debsigs debtags dhcp3-client di dirvish distcc dnotify docbook-to-man
171 doxygen dput drbd0.7-utils drbdlinks duplicity dupmerge durep dvdisaster
172 electric-fence equivs ettercap-gtk exiv2 fail2ban farpd fastjar fblogo
173 file-rc fish fl-cow flawfinder fnfx-client fnfxd fsh ftpcopy fxload
174 g++-4.0 gcc-4.0 gcc-4.0-base gdk-imlib11 gifshuffle gitweb gjdoc gkermit
175 grabc graphviz grml grml-autoconfig grml-crypt grml-firefox grml-fixes
176 grml-hwinfo grml-kerneladdons grml-laptop grml-saveconfig grml-splash
177 grml-terminalserver-data grml-vpn grml-x grml2hd-utils grml2usb gtkrecover
178 harden-remoteaudit heirloom-sh hotkey-setup hotkeys hotplug-light httperf
179 i8kutils icmp-mtu icmp-quench icmp-reset im-switch imapcopy imwheel inadyn
180 input-utils installation-report ipkungfu ipw2100-firmware ipw2200-firmware
181 ivtv0.4-utils java-common jikes jikes-kaffe jwm kaffe kaffe-common
182 kaffe-pthreads ketchup kexec-tools ksh kwtools-net-firewall kwtools-utils-pim
183 lcdtest ldapscripts leo lft libapache2-mod-php5 libsafe linux-sound-base
184 lltag localepurge loco lsdvd lua50 lua50-doc luasocket lufs-utils lwatch
185 madison-lite mercurial mgetty minised mkcue mksh mozilla-firefox-adblock
186 mozilla-firefox-webdeveloper mozilla-imagezoom msort msort-gui multi-aterm
187 munin mwcollect mysql-client-4.1 nat-traverse ncp normalize-audio nufw
188 olsrd-gui olsrd-plugin openssh-client openssh-server orpheus pads
189 pbzip2 pconf-detect pcopy php5 php5-common php5-mysql php5-pgsql
190 php5-sqlite piuparts pmtools-acpi pnpbios-tools podracer postfix-policyd
191 postgresql-8.0 postgresql-client-8.0 postgresql-common postgresql-contrib-8.0
192 powertweak powertweak-extra powertweak-gtk privoxy proxsmtp python-clamav
193 python-gnupginterface python2.3-apt python2.3-eyed3 python2.3-zopeinterface
194 qc-usb-utils readline-common readpst rhapsody rt2400-base rt2400-utility
195 rt2500-base rt2500-utility rtorrent sbm scanlogd scavr schroot scmxx sdparm
196 sendemail shish sjog slsh spicctrl splint squashfs srcinst ssh-askpass
197 svn-ssh-wrappers tailor tart tcng tcpxtract thinkpad-base tor toshset
198 toshutils tpb tpctl ttf-dejavu tthsum turkey unace uni2ascii unionfs-utils
199 unison2.9.1 unrar-free vde vifm vkeybd vncommand vncserver vorbisgain
200 wcalc webcpp weechat-common weechat-curses windowlab x11-common x11vnc x2x
201 xautomation xcb xmon xprint xprint-common xtla xtrlock xvkbd xvncviewer yaird
205 If you find a problem with the release please check
206 http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.5
207 and report problems using information on http://grml.org/bugs/
209 Changes since release 0.4 (20050515)
210 ====================================
214 A german paper "grml - Linux fuer Systemadministratoren und Texttool-User"
215 (170kB, PDF) is available online on http://grml.org/docs/#paper
219 The grml-wiki collects information useful for grml-users.
220 Everyone can contribute of course!
221 http://wiki.grml.org/
224 Please send your feedback, feature requests and bug reports to the grml-team!
225 http://grml.org/contact/ #grml on irc.freenode.org contact (at) grml.org
227 Many thanks in this release go to Mark Riedesel for his great wallpaper
228 and to all those who have sent feedback since the last release!
230 Contact: Michael 'mika' Prokop <mika at grml.org>
235 ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/
236 ( grml.org -ยป Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins
237 `._,' http://www.grml.org/