Release Notes for Grml 2013.09-rc1 - codename Ponywagon

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About

This Grml release provides fresh software packages after the Debian stable release (AKA wheezy) has been released. As usual it also incorporates up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

New features

• new boot option encpasswd: takes a hashed password as argument, setting password of users root and grml to the specified value

Important Changes

• UTC is used as default time zone, to use a different setting you can use the tz boot option (usage example: tz=Europe/Vienna)
• To match the behaviour with the ssh boot option the passwd boot option now also sets the password for user root - and not only for user 'grml'.
• grml-autoconfig (and its GRMLCFG feature) doesn't support floppy disks any longer

Bits & bolts

• Linux kernel is based on 3.X.X. No additional modules are shipped.
• Fixed several bugs from the bug tracking system.

Packages

Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are available at the Debian section. Visit dpkg_list for a detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2013.09(-rc1).

Updates

Packages are taken from Debian testing, XXth of XXX 2013. XX packages have been removed, and these XX new packages have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):

  TODO

These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):

  TODO

Known issues

• no known issues so far

Download Grml 2013.09-rc1

Grml 2013.09-rc1 can be downloaded from grml.org/download/prerelease/.

Feedback

Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with the release please check the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and feature requests to the Grml team!

Thanks

Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) Till Maas, for their contributions.

More Information

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