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30 <h1>Release Notes for grml64 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>
44 <p>Whereas grml is meant for use on 32 bit systems, grml64
45 provides support for 64 bit platforms. It is based on the amd64
46 port of Debian. Take a look at the '<a
47 href="/files/#debian">Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are
48 searching for the package list.</p>
52 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
53 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_0.2">grml64_0.2 @
56 <h4>New grml-scripts:</h4>
60 <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: wrapper around chroot with
61 proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling</li>
63 <li><strong>swspeak-setup</strong>: activating software speak(up)
64 features (used withing the swspeak bootoption)</li>
68 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating a grml (based) live-cd):</h4>
72 <li>several new packages in the different flavour classes
74 <li>improve error handling
76 <li>improve checks for -[no]lzma for different squashfs-tools
78 <li>output grml version in grml's live-initramfs script
80 <li>automatically activate grml-testing repository for devel releases and daily snapshots
82 <li>and several other updates... check out the <a
83 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
87 <p>See <a href="/grml-live/">grml.org/grml-live/</a> for more
88 details regarding grml-live.</p>
90 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):</h4>
94 <li>Provide interactive configuration dialog if the configuration
97 <li>Initial support for SW-RAID.
99 <li>Use root=UUID=... by default if possible to avoid possible
100 race conditions with libata vs. pata
102 <li>Use stages based on target information, this gives us the
103 possibility to run multiple instance of grml-debootstrap.
105 <li>Use policy-rc.d inside chroot to avoid startup of daemons.
107 <li>Remove stages after successful execution.
109 <li>Move stages to /var/cache/grml-debootstrap.
111 <li>Install devices using our own device tarball instead of
112 running MAKEDEV (which is just an ungly fork bomb).
114 <li>Run aptitude with --without-recommends option.
116 <li>Copy /etc/debootstrap/[s]bin as well to the chroot if they
119 <li>Allow symlinks when coping existing files to chroot
121 <li>Pre-seed packages using /etc/debootstrap/debconf-selections
123 <li>Support DEBOOTSTRAP_OPT for passing extra parameters to the
126 <li>Support KEEP_SRC_LIST to allow user to provide their own apt
127 sources.list from /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list
129 <li>and a lot more updates... check out the <a
130 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
134 <p>Special thanks to Tong Sun for his contributions and to <a
135 href="http://www.sipwise.com/">Sipwise GmbH</a> for sponsoring
136 development of grml-debootstrap.</p>
138 <p>See <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
139 details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
141 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
145 <li>integration of <a
146 href="http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html">vcs_info</a>
147 within Zsh prompt (<a
148 href="/screeni/gkrellShoot_08-11-03_235459.png">demo
151 <li>use random password if bootoption 'ssh' doesn't have an
152 option (thanks to Michael Holzt and Marc Haber)</li>
154 <li>(re-)implemented <a
155 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grml-cheatcodes.txt;hb=HEAD">the
156 isofrom and tohd bootoptions</a></li>
158 <li>moved from syslog-ng to rsyslog</li>
160 <li>added supported for swedish keyboard (thanks to Martin Karresand)</li>
166 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.26.8 including <a
167 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
170 acx100 at76-usb atl2 aufs drbd8 gspca kqemu loop-aes
171 madwifi ndiswrapper openafs qc-usb rt2400 rt2500
175 <p>Notice: some more modules (like <a
176 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=ati">fglrx</a> and <a
177 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=nvidia">nvidia</a>) are not
178 pre-installed but available through the <a
179 href="http://deb.grml.org/">grml-repository</a>.</p>
181 <p>See <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
182 regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
184 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
186 <p>Using a new <strong>version schema</strong>: as we want to
187 improve tracking of all the different flavours and releases of
188 grml we decided to use "$flavour $YYYY.MM" for the stable
189 releases. No further confusing 'grml 1.1 vs. grml64 0.2'.</p>
191 <p>Switched from old IDE drivers to <strong>libata</strong>
192 drivers. What might have been known as /dev/hdX on your system
193 will become /dev/sdX nowadays.</p>
195 <p><strong>Truecrypt</strong> isn't shipped anymore because
196 Truecrypt is licensed under a specific license named 'TrueCrypt
197 License 2.6' which doesn't permit us to distribute Truecrypt. See
198 <a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license">section VI/4 of
199 the license</a> for details.</p>
201 <p><strong>Locales</strong> provided via /usr/share/locale have
202 been removed due to space reasons, though /usr/share/i18n/locales
203 hasn't been modified as well as package specific files.</p>
205 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
207 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
208 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. See <a
209 href="/files/release-2008.11-grml64/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
210 for a main package listing and <a
211 href="/files/release-2008.11-grml64/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a more detailed
212 list of packages shipped with grml64 2008.11.</p>
216 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20th of
217 november 2008 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
219 <p>Removed 82 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.23-grml64*) - please
220 notice that some of them are available under
221 different names/in different packages:</p>
226 915resolution a2ps apmd array-util automake1.8 base64 bazaar biew
227 bluetooth-alsa bochsbios clamav-getfiles cpp-4.2 cracklib2 cupsys-common
228 dbishell debmake doc-base docbook-xml dumputils dvb-utils dviutils
229 dynafont eciadsl elfsh exmap fileutils firmware-ipw3945 fonty fttools
230 g++-4.2 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-multilib gconf2 gconf2-common genisoimage gksu
231 glimpse gnome-keyring gnu-fdisk icedax ipw3945d ipxripd isic lcap linda
232 linneighborhood metastore mozilla-imagezoom ms-sys mutella
233 ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 nscd nufw nvclock o3read
234 openbios-sparc openhackware postgresql-client-8.2 proll qemu qtparted
235 raggle rain realtime-lsm scrollkeeper smake squashfs-tools svgalibg1
236 syslog-ng sysutils traceproto tss type1inst unzoo upstreamdev vgabios
237 vnc-common xserver-xorg-video-newport xvncviewer xwatchwin zeroconf
240 <p>Added 99 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.26-grml64*):</p>
243 aiccu bind9utils bluez-audio cciss-vol-status chntpw cnee cpp-4.3 cups
244 cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cupsddk cupsddk-drivers discover
245 discover-data dnsmasq-base dwdiff e3 ecryptfs-utils elinks-data ent
246 espeakup ext3grep faketime fcoretools foomatic-filters freeradius-common
247 fuseiso9660 g++-4.3 gatling gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base gcc-4.3-multilib
248 genext2fs gfs2-tools gnuit grml-files grub-common i2c-tools iotop ipset
249 john-data keynav latencytop lmbench luvcview lynx-cur mercurial-common
250 mpg123 msort mtd-utils netcat-traditional nictools-pci odbcinst1debian1
251 opencryptoki openssh-blacklist openssl-blacklist openvas-client
252 openvpn-blacklist orpheus pinentry-gtk2 python-cairo python-clientform
253 python-debian python-feedparser python-gtk2 python-imaging
254 python-mechanize python-newt python-numeric python-ogg
255 python-pkg-resources qiv radvd rsyslog scrounge-ntfs squashfs-lzma-tools
256 ssdeep sslscan syslinux-common tcl8.5 texlive-extra-utils tig tk8.5
257 toshset toshutils tpm-tools trousers ttf-unifont unixodbc uswsusp
258 xfonts-unifont xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
259 xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xulrunner-1.9 zenmap
263 <h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
265 <p>As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
266 version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at <a
267 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading">the upgrading webpage in
268 the grml-wiki</a> as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
269 environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
270 subscribe to <a href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">the grml-user
273 <h3>Major changes since release grml64 0.2 (20080224)</h3>
277 <li><a href="/2008/10/01/">Migration from Mercurial to Git</a>.
279 <li>Developer related mailinglists moved from mlmmj to mailmain setup at
280 <a href="http://ml.grml.org/">ml.grml.org</a>.
284 <h3>Known issues</h3>
287 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_2008.11">grml64_2008.11 @ grml-wiki</a>.
288 Please report problems using information on <a
289 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
291 <h3>Download grml64 2008.11</h3>
293 <p>grml64 2008.11 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on <a
294 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
298 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs
299 and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please
300 check <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_2008.11">grml64_2008.11 @
301 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
302 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback, feature
303 requests and bug reports to the grml-team!</p>
306 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
307 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
312 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Tong Sun, Martin Karresand,
313 Ralf Schlatterbeck, Thomas Köhler, Peter Palfrader, Michael Holzt,
314 Florian Schuele, Marc Haber, Sipwise GmbH, Charles Hewson, Thomas
315 Lehmann, Christian Vogel, Andreas Roedl and Christian Hofstaedtler
316 for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of you who
317 <a href="/donations/">donated something to the grml-team</a> and
318 of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
321 <h3>More Information</h3>
323 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
324 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
326 <p>To sign up for future grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
327 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce"> grml's
328 announcement list</a>.</p>
330 <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
332 <p><a href="http://grml.org/contact/">Contact us.</a></p>
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