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31 <h1>Release Notes:<br />grml 0.8 - codename <a
32 href="/faq/#releasename">Funkenzutzler</a> (20060813)</h1>
36 <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
37 software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. grml
38 provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example as a
39 rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It
40 is not 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 2.1
42 GiB of software and documentation on the CD.</p>
44 <p><strong><a href="/donations/">We do need your help!</a></strong></p>
48 <p>Fixed several bugs and and issues reported on <a
49 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.7">grml_0.7 @
54 <p>Several improved, updated and extended configuration files.</p>
56 <h4>New grml-scripts (some selected ones):</h4>
60 <li>blacklist: blacklist module via module-init-tools
61 (/etc/modprobe.d/grml)
63 <li>unblacklist: remove blacklisted module from /etc/modprobe.d/grml
65 <li>install-packages-useful: a script which installs useful software on
66 your grml system. This script is similar to Ubuntu's <a
67 href="http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/">EasyUbuntu</a> and <a
68 href="http://robotgeek.org/blog/easybreezy/">EasyBreezy</a>
70 <li>grml-policy-rc.d: a wrapper script for invoke-rc.d to avoid automatical
71 startup of init scripts via invoke-rc.d; take a look at 'man
72 grml-policy-rc.d' for more details
74 <li>osd_server.py: listen for incoming messages on a specific port and
75 print them via osd_cat; run 'grml-tips osd' for more details (thanks to
76 Ulrich Dangel, Alexander Bernauer and Rico Schickel)
78 <li>myip: return IP address of running system on stdout
80 <li>grml-tpm: set up a system for use with <a
81 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_platform_module">TPM
84 <li>grml-resolution: change X resolution via a simple menu frontend (script
85 based on work by Florian Keller)
87 <li>grml-hostname: set hostname of system
91 <h4>New bootparameters/cheatcodes (some selected ones):</h4>
95 <li>splash: text based bootsplash (based on contribution by Florian
98 <li>noblank: disable console blanking
102 <h4><a href="/grml2hd/">grml2hd</a> (install grml to harddisk):</h4>
106 <li>partition selector (just invoke grml2hd without any further options)
108 <li>added support for setting hostname via grml-hostname
110 <li>grml-setlang: set language system-wide on grml system. Set $LANG,
111 $LC_ALL, $COUNTRY,... in /etc/default/locale (formerly known as
114 <li>grml-setkeyboard: set keyboard layout system-wide on grml system via
115 /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (Notice: Does not affect the currently used keyboard
116 layout, use grml-lang instead to temporarly change settings)
119 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/154-reworked-grml2hd-utils,-improved-grml2hd.html">reworked
123 <p>See <a href="/grml2hd/">grml.org/grml2hd/</a> for more details regarding
126 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
130 <li>updated to X.org 7.0
132 <li>using Lat15-Terminus16 as default console font (disable via bootoption
135 <li>text based bootsplash (see bootoption 'splash'), based on contribution
138 <li>switched from kaffe to <a
139 href="http://packages.debian.org/jikes">jikes</a> and <a
140 href="http://packages.debian.org/jamvm">jamvm</a>
142 <li>added window managers <a
143 href="http://troll.linux.net.pl/~harnir/fvwm-crystal/">fvwm-crystal</a> and <a
144 href="http://wmii.de/dwm/">dwm</a>
146 <li>added support for UMTS vodafone cards (austrian providers like A1,
147 T-Mobile and 3 work out-of-the-box) - see 'grml-tips umts'
149 <li>added /etc/rc{0..6}.d/ /etc/rcS.d directories with important_notice to
150 inform users about <a href="http://packages.debian.org/file-rc">file-rc</a>
152 <li>/etc/init.d/boolocal.{pre,middle,post}: add your own commands/stuff to
153 bootup sequence, see "man grml-autoconfig" for more details
155 <li>setup of files in /boot/grub/ to be able to install grub; provide
156 sample menu.lst for use with grml2hd - see 'grml-tips grub'</li>
158 <li>run 'zsh-help' for some hints regarding <a href="/zsh/">the best shell
165 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.17.7 including several patches (Reiser4,
166 Speakup, Squashfs,...) and additional modules:</p>
169 acerhk, acx100, adp94xx, bcm5700, cowloop, dazuko, drbd0.7, et131x, exmap, ipw3945,
170 ivtv0.7, kqemu, linux-wlan-ng, lufs, madwifi, ndiswrapper, nozomi, openafs, pcan,
171 pwc, qc-usb, realtime-lsm, rt2x00, rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, sl-modem, snd-bt-sco,
172 spca5xx, sysprof, thinkpad, tidev, truecrypt, vaiostat, zd1211
175 <p>Notice: some more modules (for example <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://grml.org/repos/">grml-repository</a>.</p>
181 <p>See <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details regarding
184 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
186 <p>The <strong>software RAID devices</strong> like /dev/md0 aren't created
187 by default anymore. See /etc/udev/mdadm.rules and <a
188 href="http://bugs.debian.org/381181">#381181</a> for the reason. If you need
189 /dev/md*-devices just run the following command (you will find this tip in
190 'grml-tips mdadm' as well):</p>
193 cd /dev && MAKEDEV md
197 href="http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/08/01/problems-running-dri-with-current-xorg-on-debianunstable/">problems
198 running DRI with current X.org</a>. Check whether
199 <strong>DRI/3d-support</strong> works for you via running:
202 % glxinfo | grep direct
203 direct rendering: Yes</pre>
205 <p>If it does not return 'Yes' the following command might solve your problem:</p>
208 apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri/experimental libgl1-mesa-glx/experimental
211 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
213 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are available at
214 the <a href="http://grml.org/files/#debian">Debian section</a>.</p>
218 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20060811.</p>
220 <p>Removed 114 packages [please notice that some of them are available under
221 different names/in different packages]:</p>
226 3ware-3dm2-old-binary acx100-firmware aget aide antlr apache apache-common
227 apachetoolbox apachetop apticron automake1.6 ccdv cdrecord-prodvd-binary cpm
228 cpp-4.0 cpudyn cron-apt dahb-txt dbconfig-common dchroot debfoster eagle-usb-data
229 eagle-usb-utils ecj-bootstrap edictionary fastjar fcheck fftw2 fglrx-control
230 figfonts fonts-ttf-west-european ftester g++-4.0 gcc-4.0 gcc-4.0-base gcj-4.0-base
231 giftrans gij-4.0 gjdoc gramofile grml-splash hgrep httpf ices2 installwatch ipac-ng
232 ipsc ipw2100-firmware ipw2200-firmware ipython-common isdnutils-xtools kaffe
233 kaffe-common kaffe-pthreads lbxproxy m-tx magma maradns mod-chroot-common
234 musepack-decoder musepack-encoder musepack-replaygain musixtex mwcollect
235 mysql-client-4.1 nbsmtp newsflash nis ntp-server ntp-simple numlockx ooo2dbk
236 pekwmsvn php5-common pipemeter postgresql-common proftpd proftpd-common prospect
237 proxymngr python-id3lib python-pymad python2.3-apt python2.3-bsddb3
238 python2.3-crypto python2.3-elementtree python2.3-eyed3 python2.3-fuse
239 python2.3-id3lib python2.3-ipython python2.3-profiler python2.3-zopeinterface
240 python2.4-celementtree python2.4-elementtree qtparted queue scavr shunit sslwrap
241 tasksel tiger torsmo tripwire update-apt vncserver xfonts-base-transcoded
242 xfree86-driver-synaptics xfwp xlibmesa-dri xlibs-data xmon xprint xprint-common
246 <p>Added 117 new packages (exluding lib*, xserver-xorg-* and
250 3ware-3dm2-binary 3ware-cli-binary acpi-support aircrack-ng ajaxterm btscanner cdck
251 cdpr cedet-common classpath classpath-common cmospwd cpp-4.1 cpuid cpulimit crywrap
252 cupsys-common curlftpfs debdelta debian-goodies dwm eieio emcast facter freeglut3
253 fusesmb fvwm fvwm-crystal-minimal g++-4.1 gcc-4.1 gconf2-common grep-dctrl
254 grml-policyrcd habak id3 ipmitool ipw-firmware ipw3945-ucode ipw3945d jamvm jikes
255 lame latexmk linuxlogo lspowertweak madwifi-doc magicrescue mesa-utils mktemp
256 modconf mp3val mrb mrxvt mrxvt-common mysql-client-5.0 ndisc6 ndiswrapper-common
257 ndiswrapper-utils-1.1 ndiswrapper-utils-1.7 ndiswrapper-utils-1.8 nethogs ntfs-3g
258 num-utils open-iscsi p3nfs pcopy pekwm pktstat policyrcd-script-zg2 powertweak-gtk
259 powertweakd prism54-firmware pymacs python-celementtree python-central
260 python-elementtree python-minimal python-mode python-support remind snmp sudoku
261 syrep tdb-dev tetrinet-client thc-ipv6 tinysnmp-tools tpm-tools trayer trousers
262 tshark twolame txt2pdbdoc tzdata unclutter unionfs-tools uswsusp vbindiff vobcopy
263 vsftpd weechat weechat-scripts wikipediafs wireshark wireshark-common wyrd xbitmaps
264 xclip xcursor-themes xfonts-biznet-100dpi xfonts-biznet-75dpi xfonts-biznet-base
265 xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xkb-data xorg xutils-dev
268 <h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
270 <p>As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
271 version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at <a
272 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading">the upgrading webpage in
273 the grml-wiki</a> as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
274 environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
275 subscribe to <a href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">the grml-user
278 <h3>Changes since release 0.7 (20060410)</h3>
281 <li>grml on <a href="http://grml.org/news/#wlt06">linuxdays graz and
284 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/159-grml-in-the-german-LinuxUser-magazine.html">in
285 the German LinuxUser magazine</a>.
286 <li><a href="http://planet.grml.org/">Planet grml</a> available.
287 <li>Timo Boettcher joined <a href="http://grml.org/team/">the
291 <h3>Known issues</h3>
294 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.8">grml_0.8 @ grml-wiki</a>.
295 Please report problems using information on <a
296 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
298 <h3>Download grml 0.8</h3>
300 <p>grml 0.8 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on <a
301 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
305 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs
306 and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please
307 check <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.8">grml_0.8 @
308 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
309 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback, feature
310 requests and bug reports to the grml-team!</p>
313 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
314 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
319 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Florian Keller for his code
320 contributions, to Jörg Müller for the releasename, to Ulrich Dangel,
321 Alexander Bernauer and Rico Schickel for osd_server.py, to Thomas Konrad for
322 the wallpaper and CD-Cover and of course to all those who have sent feedback
323 since the last release!</p>
325 <p>Thanks a lot for all <a href="/donations/">the donations</a>! Special
326 thanks go to <a href="http://www.ibm.com/at/">IBM/Lenovo Austria</a> for
327 providing us a x305 server which will serve as buildsystem in the near
328 future. While working on the grml-trusted project (details will follow soon)
330 href="http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/07/02/thinkpad-t60-laptop-with-debiangrml-linux/">Thinkpad
331 T60 laptop</a> for about 3 months. Thanks a lot!</p>
333 <h3>More Information</h3>
335 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
336 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
338 <p>To sign up for future grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
339 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce"> grml's
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348 <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
350 <p><a href="http://grml.org/contact/">Contact us.</a></p>
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