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30 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2010.12 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Gebrüder Grml</a></h1>
35 <p>Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. It
36 includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system
37 administrators and users of texttools. Grml provides automatic hardware
38 detection. Grml is the perfect rescue system, but you can also use it for
39 analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It is not
40 necessary to install anything to a harddisk; you don't even need a
41 harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression Grml includes about
42 2 GB of software and documentation on the live system.</p>
44 <h3>Download Grml 2010.12</h3>
46 <p>Grml 2010.12 can be downloaded from <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
52 <li><strong>New Linux kernel version</strong> based on 2.6.36.2</li>
54 <li><strong>Config-less X</strong> to take advantage of X.org's automatic configuration</li>
56 <li>Support for Kernel Mode Setting (KMS)</li>
58 <li><strong>grml-rescueboot / loopback.cfg feature</strong> and <strong>grub-imageboot for ISO boot</strong> (more details available in '<a href="http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/01/07/booting-iso-images-from-within-grub2/">Booting ISO images from within GRUB2</a>')</li>
60 <li>Initial release of <a href="http://grml.org/kantan/">Kantan</a>, an <strong>automated testing suite</strong> for continuous integration and a test environment; see <a href="http://grml.org/kantan/">grml.org/kantan/</a> for details (not shipped in Grml by default though)
62 <li><strong>Incremental grml-rebuildfstab</strong> triggered by udev events for faster execution time</li>
66 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
70 <li><strong>Improved serial console on multiple devices</strong> (thanks to Marc Haber)</li>
72 <li><strong>vnc_connect bootoption</strong> allowing to connect to an existing listening vnc client. Can be used to connect easily from devices behind firewalls as connection is initiated from the vnc server instead of the vnc client.</li>
74 <li><strong>grml-terminalserver no longer needs to rebuild the initrd</strong>, default initrd/initramfs shipped on ISO is fully-featured for PXE boot.</li>
76 <li>The <strong>netscript bootoption</strong> provides the new environment variable named NETSCRIPT to provide an option to ensure that the script is executed under the according environment.</li>
78 <li><strong>Updated manifold boot features</strong> (thanks to Thorsten Glaser): dd-ed ISOs (for booting via USB) now use isolinux as bootloader as well, so you get the same boot menu in normal CD boot as well as in USB boot.</li>
82 <h4>New features in <a href="/zsh/#grmlzshrc">Grml's Zsh</a></h4>
85 <li>Fully documented, see <a href="http://grml.org/zsh/">grml.org/zsh</a> (thanks to Joerg Woelke) - <a href="http://grml.org/zsh/grmlzshrc.html">available online</a> as well as offline ('man 5 grmlzshrc')
86 <li>Uses zsh's built-in vcs_info and falls back to a grml-packaged version if the current version of zsh does not come with its own implementation
89 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
93 <li><strong>Removed many window managers</strong> (fvwm/fvwm-crystal, ratpoison, dwm, twm, w9wm, evilwm, jwm, pekwm) due to size and out-of-the-box configuration issues. See <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue897">issue897</a> for the discussion.</li>
95 <li>grml2hd is no longer available from <strong>grml-quickconfig</strong>, the selection dialog displayed after grml-full or grml-medium are done booting.</li>
97 <li>Reworked <strong>/etc/runlevel.conf</strong> deployment. Instead of providing runlevel.conf through grml-etc it's being deployed through grml-live to improve customization capabilities.</li>
99 <li><strong>Rewrite of grml-x</strong> due to new xorg.conf handling, please note that some options that are now unnecessary have been removed and that all single-dash options (-force, -nostart,...) became common long options (--force, --nostart,...).</li>
101 <li>Switched from live-initramfs to <strong>live-boot</strong> based on version 2.0.12.</li>
103 <li>Switched from pump to <strong>ISC dhclient</strong>, triggered by udev events during boot (use nodhcp to turn this off).</li>
105 <li>Network configuration via <strong>/etc/network/interfaces</strong> supported during boot-up (static IP address assignment - e.g. via ip=... booption - and dhcp are both configured via /etc/network/interfaces).</li>
107 <li>Reworked <strong>sound mixer handling</strong> to improve handling of IBM hardware and multiple soundcards.</li>
113 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.36.2 including <a
114 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
117 aufs iscsitarget loop-aes lzma ndiswrapper openafs
118 speakup squashfs sysprof tp-smapi virtualbox-ose-guest
122 <p>Visit <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
123 regarding Grml's kernel.</p>
127 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
128 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.04">grml_2010.04 @
129 grml-wiki</a> and in the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug
130 tracking system</a>.</p>
132 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
134 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
135 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
136 <a href="/files/release-2010.12/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
137 for a main package listing and
138 <a href="/files/release-2010.12/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
139 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2010.12.</p>
143 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 15th of december
144 2010 (plus some further selected updates until 29th of december).</p>
147 <p>Removed 174 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.33-grml*) - please
148 notice that some of them are available under
149 different names/in different packages:</p>
154 2vcard abs-guide ace-of-penguins apt-xapian-index
155 archivemail asr-manpages astyle aterm aub auto-apt axp
156 bibcursed bluez-alsa cabber calcurse calife camserv
157 cbrowser cddb cdecl cdrbq cdrecord cdtool check clive
158 cmatrix conky console-common console-tools
159 cpuburn-in-binary cvs-buildpackage cw cwcp ddccontrol
160 ddccontrol-db dvdrtools dwm dwm-tools emcast evilwm faad
161 fdflush fdutils fgetty figlet filepp filetraq fluxconf
162 fnord fusesmb fvwm fvwm-crystal-minimal geresh gif2png
163 giftcurs gnupg-curl gnupg-pkcs11-scd gocr gq gs-common
164 habak hasciicam hnb hotkeys i8kutils ibritish icecast2
165 ifplugd ike-scan ingerman ipx irb irb1.8 irpas isakmpd
166 isdnactivecards jailtool jwm kbd-compat kqemu-common
167 live-initramfs loco lslk mgetty mgp moosic mp3blaster
168 mp3wrap mpage mplayer-skin-blue mrxvt mrxvt-common
169 mtd-tools multi-aterm ncpfs nedit netstat-nat
170 nictools-nopci nstx odbcinst1debian1 offlineimap
171 openafs-client opencryptoki pamusb-tools pcopy
172 pdns-backend-ldap pdns-backend-pgsql pdns-backend-pipe
173 pdns-backend-sqlite pdns-server pdumpfs pekwm perf
174 playmp3list pmidi postgresql-client-8.4 ppmd psfontmgr psh
175 python-xapian ratmenu ratpoison rdiff rdiff-backup rdoc
176 rdoc1.8 rman router-audit-tool scsiadd smake snmp snowdrop
177 speechd-up splitvt starttls swapd tcl8.3 thttpd tla
178 toshset toshutils tpm-tools trousers ttmkfdir twm unixcw
179 uswsusp w9wm wmmisc wprint wyrd x2x xfonts-intl-european
180 xfs xpdf-common xserver-xorg-input-aiptek
181 xserver-xorg-input-elographics xserver-xorg-input-evtouch
182 xserver-xorg-input-joystick xserver-xorg-input-kbd
183 xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-penmount
184 xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-void
185 xserver-xorg-video-amd xserver-xorg-video-dummy
186 xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-ivtv
187 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-tga
188 xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-via yaird ysm
191 <p>Added 46 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.36-grml*):</p>
195 3270-common acpi-fakekey anthy-common aufs-tools
196 bitlbee-common c3270 console-setup cups-ppdc diff ekeyd
197 fbcat gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base gconf2-common git
198 grml-rescueboot growisofs hunspell hunspell-de-de
199 hunspell-en-us i3-wm iamerican isc-dhcp-client
200 isc-dhcp-common isc-dhcp-server jackd2 kbd keynav
201 live-boot live-boot-initramfs-tools lua5.1 m17n-contrib
202 mktemp nsd3 odbcinst1debian2 postgresql-client-9.0
203 python-apt-common python-chardet python-mutagen
204 python-openssl python-pycurl squashfs-tools suckless-tools
205 x11vnc-data xserver-xorg-video-nouveau zenity
209 <h3>Major changes since release 2010.04 (20100429)</h3>
213 <li><a href="http://grml.org/reports/devmeeting_2010/">Grml developer meeting</a> in Vienna.</li>
215 <li>Christian Hofstaedter joined the <a href="http://grml.org/team/">Grml team</a>.</li>
217 <li><a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/347-Event-Grml-at-FrOSCon-2010.html">Grml at FrOSCon 2010</a>.</li>
219 <li>German magazine <a href="http://www.freiesmagazin.de/">freiesMagazin</a> provides an article about Grml in edition 06/2010.</li>
221 <li><a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/343-Event-Grml-Talk-in-DornbirnAustria.html">Grml talk at Net Culture Lab</a> in Dornbirn.</li>
225 <h3>Known issues</h3>
228 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.12">grml_2010.12 @ grml-wiki</a>.
229 Please report problems using information on <a
230 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
234 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
235 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
236 the release please check <a
237 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.12">grml_2010.12 @
238 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
239 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
240 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
243 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
244 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
247 <a name="thanks"></a>
250 <p>Many thanks (alphabetically) in this release go to
252 Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth,
279 for their contributions.</p>
281 <p>We also would like to thank everyone who made <a href="/reports/devmeeting_2010/">the Grml-developer
282 meeting</a> possible. This includes <a href="http://metalab.at/">Metalab</a>,
283 <a href="http://www.tarent.de/">Tarent</a> and many unnamed generous private sponsors.</p>
285 <h3>More Information</h3>
287 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
288 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a
289 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
291 <p>To sign up for future Grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
292 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">Grml's
293 announcement list</a>.</p>
295 <p>If you are interested in development releases grab the daily ISOs
296 from <a href="http://daily.grml.org/">daily.grml.org</a>.</p>
298 <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
300 <p>Please feel free to <a href="http://grml.org/contact/">contact us.</a></p>
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