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30 <h1>Release Notes for grml 2008.11 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Schluchtenscheisser</a></h1>
35 <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
36 software especially for users of texttools and system administrators.
37 grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example
38 as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
39 environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you
40 don't even need a harddisk to run it, unless you want to (use grml2hd
41 for this). Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1GB
42 of software and documentation on the CD.</p>
46 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
47 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_1.1">grml_1.1 @
50 <h4>New grml-scripts:</h4>
54 <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: wrapper around chroot with
55 proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling</li>
57 <li><strong>swspeak-setup</strong>: activating software speak(up)
58 features (used withing the swspeak bootoption)</li>
62 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating a grml (based) live-cd):</h4>
66 <li>several new packages in the different flavour classes
68 <li>improve error handling
70 <li>improve checks for -[no]lzma for different squashfs-tools
72 <li>output grml version in grml's live-initramfs script
74 <li>automatically activate grml-testing repository for devel releases and daily snapshots
76 <li>and several other updates... check out the <a
77 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
81 <p>See <a href="/grml-live/">grml.org/grml-live/</a> for more
82 details regarding grml-live.</p>
84 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):</h4>
88 <li>Provide interactive configuration dialog if the configuration
91 <li>Initial support for SW-RAID.
93 <li>Use root=UUID=... by default if possible to avoid possible
94 race conditions with libata vs. pata
96 <li>Use stages based on target information, this gives us the
97 possibility to run multiple instance of grml-debootstrap.
99 <li>Use policy-rc.d inside chroot to avoid startup of daemons.
101 <li>Remove stages after successful execution.
103 <li>Move stages to /var/cache/grml-debootstrap.
105 <li>Install devices using our own device tarball instead of
106 running MAKEDEV (which is just an ungly fork bomb).
108 <li>Run aptitude with --without-recommends option.
110 <li>Copy /etc/debootstrap/[s]bin as well to the chroot if they
113 <li>Allow symlinks when coping existing files to chroot
115 <li>Pre-seed packages using /etc/debootstrap/debconf-selections
117 <li>Support DEBOOTSTRAP_OPT for passing extra parameters to the
120 <li>Support KEEP_SRC_LIST to allow user to provide their own apt
121 sources.list from /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list
123 <li>and a lot more updates... check out the <a
124 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
128 <p>Special thanks to Tong Sun for his contributions and to <a
129 href="http://www.sipwise.com/">Sipwise GmbH</a> for sponsoring
130 development of grml-debootstrap.</p>
132 <p>See <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
133 details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
135 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
139 <li>integration of <a
140 href="http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html">vcs_info</a>
141 within Zsh prompt (<a
142 href="/screeni/gkrellShoot_08-11-03_235459.png">demo
145 <li>use random password if bootoption 'ssh' doesn't have an
146 option (thanks to Michael Holzt and Marc Haber)</li>
148 <li>(re-)implemented <a
149 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grml-cheatcodes.txt;hb=HEAD">the
150 isofrom and tohd bootoptions</a></li>
152 <li>moved from syslog-ng to rsyslog</li>
154 <li>added supported for swedish keyboard (thanks to Martin Karresand)</li>
160 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.26.8 including <a
161 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
164 acx100 at76-usb atl2 aufs drbd8 gspca iscsitarget kqemu linux-uvc
165 linux-wlan-ng loop-aes madwifi ndiswrapper openafs qc-usb rt2400 rt2500
166 rt73 sl-modem speakup squashfs tp-smapi virtualbox-ose-guest
169 <p>Notice: some more modules (like <a
170 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=ati">fglrx</a> and <a
171 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=nvidia">nvidia</a>) are not
172 pre-installed but available through the <a
173 href="http://deb.grml.org/">grml-repository</a>.</p>
175 <p>See <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
176 regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
178 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
180 <p>Using a new <strong>version schema</strong>: as we want to
181 improve tracking of all the different flavours and releases of
182 grml we decided to use "$flavour $YYYY.MM" for the stable
183 releases. No further confusing 'grml 1.1 vs. grml64 0.2'.</p>
185 <p>Switched from old IDE drivers to <strong>libata</strong>
186 drivers. What might have been known as /dev/hdX on your system
187 will become /dev/sdX nowadays.</p>
189 <p><strong>Truecrypt</strong> isn't shipped anymore Because
190 Truecrypt is licensed under a specific license named 'TrueCrypt
191 License 2.6' which doesn't permit us to distribute Truecrypt. See
192 <a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license">section VI/4 of
193 the license</a> for details.</p>
195 <p><strong>Locales</strong> provided via /usr/share/locale have
196 been removed due to space reasons, though /usr/share/i18n/locales
197 hasn't been modified as well as package specific files.</p>
199 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
201 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
202 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. See <a
203 href="/files/release-2008.11/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
204 for a main package listing and <a
205 href="/files/release-2008.11/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a more detailed
206 list of packages shipped with grml 2008.11.</p>
210 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20th of
211 november 2008 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
213 <p>Removed 82 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.23-grml*) - please
214 notice that some of them are available under
215 different names/in different packages:</p>
220 915resolution a2ps apmd array-util automake1.8 base64 bazaar biew
221 bluetooth-alsa clamav-getfiles cpp-4.2 cracklib2 cupsys-common dbishell
222 debmake doc-base docbook-xml dumputils dvb-utils dviutils dynafont
223 eciadsl elfsh emelfm fileutils firmware-ipw3945 fonty fttools g++-4.2
224 gcc-4.2 gconf2 gconf2-common genisoimage gksu glimpse gnome-keyring
225 gs-esp gscanbus hydra icedax ipw3945d ipxripd isic lcap linda
226 linneighborhood metastore mobilemesh mozilla-imagezoom ms-sys mutella
227 ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 nmapfe nscd nufw nvclock o3read
228 postgresql-client-8.2 qtparted raggle rain realtime-lsm rt73-common
229 scrollkeeper smake sound-recorder squashfs-tools svgalibg1 syslog-ng
230 sysutils traceproto tss type1inst unzoo upstreamdev vifm vnc-common
231 xserver-xorg-video-newport xvncviewer xwatchwin zeroconf
234 <p>Added 79 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.26-grml*):</p>
237 aiccu bind9utils cciss-vol-status cnee cpp-4.3 cups cups-bsd cups-client
238 cups-common cupsddk cupsddk-drivers discover discover-data dnsmasq-base
239 dwdiff elinks-data ent espeakup ext3grep faketime fcoretools
240 foomatic-filters freeradius-common g++-4.3 gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base genext2fs
241 gfs2-tools gnuit grub-common i2c-tools iotop ipset john-data keynav
242 latencytop lynx-cur mercurial-common mpg123 mtd-utils netcat-traditional
243 odbcinst1debian1 openssh-blacklist openssl-blacklist openvas-client
244 openvpn-blacklist pinentry-gtk2 python-cairo python-clientform
245 python-debian python-feedparser python-gtk2 python-imaging
246 python-mechanize python-newt python-numeric python-ogg
247 python-pkg-resources qiv radvd rsyslog squashfs-lzma-tools sslscan
248 syslinux-common tcl8.5 texlive-extra-utils tig tk8.5 ttf-unifont unixodbc
249 xfonts-unifont xserver-xorg-video-geode xserver-xorg-video-mach64
250 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
251 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xulrunner-1.9 zenmap zoo
254 <h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
256 <p>As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
257 version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at <a
258 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading">the upgrading webpage in
259 the grml-wiki</a> as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
260 environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
261 subscribe to <a href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">the grml-user
264 <h3>Major changes since release 1.1 (20080224)</h3>
268 <li><a href="/2008/10/01/">Migration from Mercurial to Git</a>.
270 <li>Developer related mailinglists moved from mlmmj to mailmain setup at
271 <a href="http://ml.grml.org/">ml.grml.org</a>.
275 <h3>Known issues</h3>
278 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2008.11">grml_2008.11 @ grml-wiki</a>.
279 Please report problems using information on <a
280 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
282 <h3>Download grml 2008.11</h3>
284 <p>grml 2008.11 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on <a
285 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
289 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs
290 and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please
291 check <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2008.11">grml_2008.11 @
292 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
293 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback, feature
294 requests and bug reports to the grml-team!</p>
297 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
298 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
303 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Tong Sun, Martin Karresand,
304 Ralf Schlatterbeck, Thomas Köhler, Peter Palfrader, Michael Holzt,
305 Florian Schuele, Marc Haber, Sipwise GmbH, Charles Hewson, Thomas
306 Lehmann, Christian Vogel, Andreas Roedl and Christian Hofstaedtler
307 for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of you who
308 <a href="/donations/">donated something to the grml-team</a> and
309 of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
312 <h3>More Information</h3>
314 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
315 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
317 <p>To sign up for future grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
318 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce"> grml's
319 announcement list</a>.</p>
321 <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
323 <p><a href="http://grml.org/contact/">Contact us.</a></p>
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