<h3>About</h3>
<p>This release brings a downsizing and cleanup: one flavour, two architectures.
- The new, smaller "FULL" flavour has a 350MB ISO size target, while still
+ The new, smaller flavour has a 350MB ISO size target, while still
delivering over 1.1GB of open source software relevant for system
administrators!</p>
<ul>
- <li><b>EFI Boot</b> support from CD-ROM and USB keys (amd64 only)</li>
- <li>mDNS support (try <tt>ping grml.local</tt> with libnss-mdns and avahi-daemon
+ <li>EFI Boot support from CD-ROM and USB keys (amd64 only)</li>
+ <li>mDNS support (try <tt>ping grml.local</tt> with libnss-mdns and avahi-daemon
or similar enabled on your host)</li>
<li>NFS Client support and d-bus start automatically</li>
-
- </ul>
-
- <h4>Special new features:</h4>
-
- <ul>
-
<li><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a>, the tool of choice to install Debian,
can now directly build virtual machine images.</li>
-
<li><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a>, our build tool, was enhanced with new features to
better integrate with <a href="http://jenkins-ci.org/">Jenkins</a>.
This release, as well as the current <a href="/daily/">daily images</a>
are built from within Jenkins!</li>
-
-
</ul>
<h3>Important Changes</h3>
<li>Z-Shell configuration has been cleaned up. Quite a few functions
<a href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=history;f=etc/zsh/zshrc">have been removed</a>
from the default configuration.</li>
- <li>X11 environment has been downsized as well. The window manager is
+ <li>X11 environment has been downsized as well. The window manager is
now fluxbox. idesk has been removed, all available software is now
reachable from the fluxbox menu.</li>
<li>The accessibility support now consists of shipping standard speakup
<li>grml2usb: compat for releases < 2009.05, grub1 and lilo support
have been removed.</li>
<li>Release builds are now built from Debian's testing distribution, instead of unstable.</li>
- <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.1.4</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
- <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
+ <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.1.4</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Packages</h3>
<p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
- available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
- <!-- -->
+ available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
+ <!--
<a href="/files/release-2011.12-rc1/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
- for a main package listing and
- <!-- -->
+ for a main package listing and
+ -->
<a href="/files/release-2011.12-rc1/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2011.12-rc1.</p>
<h3>Updates</h3>
- <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 10th of December
- 2011. 1745 packages have been removed, and these new packages
- have been added (plus dependencies):</p>
+ <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 11th of December
+ 2011. 1745 packages have been removed, and these new packages
+ have been added (plus dependencies):</p>
<pre class="rahmen">
- afflib-tools atftp bacula-sd efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64-bin
- ia32-libs imvirt ipxe mcollective mtx multiarch-support
- netcat-openbsd python2.7 sipcalc
+ afflib-tools aoetool atftp bacula-sd efibootmgr
+ grub-efi-amd64-bin ia32-libs imvirt ipxe mcollective
+ mtx multiarch-support netcat-openbsd python2.7 sipcalc
+ vblade
</pre>
<p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced:</p>
the user land tools for the new in-kernel iSCSI target are not yet
in Debian unstable/testing and shipping the old iscsitarget modules
in binary form appears to be almost impossible with the new DKMS packaging.
+ As a workaround you may consider using Ata Over Ethernet with vblade.
</p>
- <!--
+ <p><b>dns bootoption</b> does not work as expected. See <a
+ href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue1099">issue1099</a> for details.</p>
+
+ <!--
<p>Take a look at <a
href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a>.
Please report problems using information on <a
href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
- -->
+ -->
<h3>Download Grml 2011.12-rc1</h3>
href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
- <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
- </ul>
-
+<!--
<a name="thanks"></a>
<h3>Thanks</h3>
<p>Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically)
- TBD,
- for their contributions.</p>
+ TBD,
+ for their contributions.</p>
+-->
<h3>More Information</h3>
- <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
- href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a
+ <p>You can find out more about Grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
+ href="/contact/#irc">IRC channel</a>, and <a
href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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