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+ <h1>Release Notes for grml-medium 2008.11 - codename <a
+ href="/faq/#releasename">Schluchtenscheisser</a></h1>
+
+ <h3>About</h3>
+
+ <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
+ software especially for users of texttools and system administrators.
+ grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example
+ as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
+ environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you
+ don't even need a harddisk to run it, unless you want to (use grml2hd
+ for this). Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1GB
+ of software and documentation on the CD.</p>
+
+ <p>Whereas grml provides about 2.1GB of software on a ~700MB ISO
+ and grml-small is a flavor with only ~75MB ISO-size, grml-medium
+ tries to close the gap between those two flavours providing an ISO
+ with ~200MB. It does not provide all the software shipped with
+ normal/big/large grml but provides essential stuff, a full featured
+ kernel and the X.org server. You can use the Debian package
+ management system to install software on the fly (assuming you have
+ network access to a Debian mirror). Take a look at the <a
+ href="/files/">'Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are
+ searching for the package list.</p>
+
+ <h3>Bugfixes</h3>
+
+ <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_0.1">grml-medium_0.1 @
+ grml-wiki</a>.</p>
+
+ <h4>New grml-script:</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: wrapper around chroot with
+ proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating a grml (based) live-cd):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>several new packages in the different flavour classes
+
+ <li>improve error handling
+
+ <li>improve checks for -[no]lzma for different squashfs-tools
+
+ <li>output grml version in grml's live-initramfs script
+
+ <li>automatically activate grml-testing repository for devel releases and daily snapshots
+
+ <li>and several other updates... check out the <a
+ href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>See <a href="/grml-live/">grml.org/grml-live/</a> for more
+ details regarding grml-live.</p>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Provide interactive configuration dialog if the configuration
+ file wasn't set up.
+
+ <li>Initial support for SW-RAID.
+
+ <li>Use root=UUID=... by default if possible to avoid possible
+ race conditions with libata vs. pata
+
+ <li>Use stages based on target information, this gives us the
+ possibility to run multiple instance of grml-debootstrap.
+
+ <li>Use policy-rc.d inside chroot to avoid startup of daemons.
+
+ <li>Remove stages after successful execution.
+
+ <li>Move stages to /var/cache/grml-debootstrap.
+
+ <li>Install devices using our own device tarball instead of
+ running MAKEDEV (which is just an ungly fork bomb).
+
+ <li>Run aptitude with --without-recommends option.
+
+ <li>Copy /etc/debootstrap/[s]bin as well to the chroot if they
+ are present
+
+ <li>Allow symlinks when coping existing files to chroot
+
+ <li>Pre-seed packages using /etc/debootstrap/debconf-selections
+
+ <li>Support DEBOOTSTRAP_OPT for passing extra parameters to the
+ debootstrap command
+
+ <li>Support KEEP_SRC_LIST to allow user to provide their own apt
+ sources.list from /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list
+
+ <li>and a lot more updates... check out the <a
+ href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Special thanks to Tong Sun for his contributions and to <a
+ href="http://www.sipwise.com/">Sipwise GmbH</a> for sponsoring
+ development of grml-debootstrap.</p>
+
+ <p>See <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
+ details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
+
+ <h4>Special new features:</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>integration of <a
+ href="http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html">vcs_info</a>
+ within Zsh prompt (<a
+ href="/screeni/gkrellShoot_08-11-03_235459.png">demo
+ screenshot</a>)
+
+ <li>use random password if bootoption 'ssh' doesn't have an
+ option (thanks to Michael Holzt and Marc Haber)</li>
+
+ <li>(re-)implemented <a
+ href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grml-cheatcodes.txt;hb=HEAD">the
+ isofrom and tohd bootoptions</a></li>
+
+ <li>moved from syslog-ng to rsyslog</li>
+
+ <li>added supported for swedish keyboard (thanks to Martin Karresand)</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Kernel</h3>
+
+ <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.26.8 including <a
+ href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ at76-usb atl2 aufs madwifi rt2400 rt2500 rt73 squashfs
+</pre>
+
+ <p>Notice: some more modules (like <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=ati">fglrx</a> and <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=nvidia">nvidia</a>) are not
+ pre-installed but available through the <a
+ href="http://deb.grml.org/">grml-repository</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>See <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
+ regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
+
+ <h3>Important Changes</h3>
+
+ <p>Using a new <strong>version schema</strong>: as we want to
+ improve tracking of all the different flavours and releases of
+ grml we decided to use "$flavour $YYYY.MM" for the stable
+ releases. No further confusing 'grml 1.1 vs. grml64 0.2'.</p>
+
+ <p>Switched from old IDE drivers to <strong>libata</strong>
+ drivers. What might have been known as /dev/hdX on your system
+ will become /dev/sdX nowadays.</p>
+
+ <p><strong>Truecrypt</strong> isn't shipped anymore Because
+ Truecrypt is licensed under a specific license named 'TrueCrypt
+ License 2.6' which doesn't permit us to distribute Truecrypt. See
+ <a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license">section VI/4 of
+ the license</a> for details.</p>
+
+ <p><strong>Locales</strong> provided via /usr/share/locale have
+ been removed due to space reasons, though /usr/share/i18n/locales
+ hasn't been modified as well as package specific files.</p>
+
+ <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
+
+ <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
+ available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. See <a
+ href="/files/release-2008.11-medium/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
+ for a main package listing and <a
+ href="/files/release-2008.11-medium/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a more detailed
+ list of packages shipped with grml-medium 2008.11.</p>
+
+ <h3>Updates</h3>
+
+ <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20th of
+ november 2008 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
+
+ <p>Removed 23 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.23-grml*) - please
+ notice that some of them are available under
+ different names/in different packages:</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ *2.6.23-grml* lib*
+
+ cpp-4.2 firmware-ipw3945 gcc-4.1-base gcc-4.2 genisoimage info ipw3945d
+ nvclock python2.4 python2.4-minimal radeontool rt73-common
+ squashfs-tools syslog-ng sysutils toshset unzoo w3m x11-apps
+ x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xbase-clients xserver-xorg-video-newport
+</pre>
+
+ <p>Added 27 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.26-grml*):</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ ca-certificates cpp-4.3 gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base genext2fs grub-common
+ irqbalance latencytop lzma make mercurial-common netcat-traditional
+ nfs-kernel-server openssh-blacklist openssl-blacklist powertop rsyslog
+ squashfs-lzma-tools syslinux-common xfsdump xserver-xorg-video-geode
+ xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
+ xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
+ xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd zoo
+</pre>
+
+ <h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
+
+ <p>As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
+ version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading">the upgrading webpage in
+ the grml-wiki</a> as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
+ environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
+ subscribe to <a href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">the grml-user
+ mailinglist</a>!</p>
+
+ <h3>Major changes since release grml-medium 0.1 (20080224)</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><a href="/2008/10/01/">Migration from Mercurial to Git</a>.
+
+ <li>Developer related mailinglists moved from mlmmj to mailmain setup at
+ <a href="http://ml.grml.org/">ml.grml.org</a>.
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Known issues</h3>
+
+ <p>Take a look at <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_2008.11">grml-medium_2008.11 @ grml-wiki</a>.
+ Please report problems using information on <a
+ href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3>Download grml-medium 2008.11</h3>
+
+ <p>grml-medium 2008.11 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on <a
+ href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3>Feedback</h3>
+
+ <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs
+ and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please
+ check <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_2008.11">grml-medium_2008.11 @
+ grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
+ href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback, feature
+ requests and bug reports to the grml-team!</p>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
+ <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+ <p>Many thanks in this release go to Tong Sun, Martin Karresand,
+ Ralf Schlatterbeck, Thomas Köhler, Peter Palfrader, Michael Holzt,
+ Florian Schuele, Marc Haber, Sipwise GmbH, Charles Hewson, Thomas
+ Lehmann, Christian Vogel, Andreas Roedl and Christian Hofstaedtler
+ for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of you who
+ <a href="/donations/">donated something to the grml-team</a> and
+ of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
+ release!</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 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
+
+ <p>To sign up for future grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
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+
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+
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