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+ <h1>Release Notes for grml-medium 2009.05 - codename <a
+ href="/faq/#releasename">Lackdose-Allergie</a></h1>
+
+ <h3>About</h3>
+
+ <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
+ software especially for system administrators and users of texttools.
+ 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. Due to
+ on-the-fly decompression grml includes more than 2GB of software and
+ documentation on the CD.</p>
+
+ <h3>Main Bugfixes</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>improved localtime / utc / gmt handling (thanks to Thomas Lehmann for his work)
+
+ <li>vimrc: enable features (like syntax highlighting) only if available
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Fixed several small bugs and issues reported on <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_2008.11">grml-medium_2008.11 @
+ grml-wiki</a> and in the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug
+ tracking system</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3>New features</h3>
+
+ <h4>Special new features:</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>bootoption <strong>persistent</a></strong>: use persistency
+ feature on grml, check out <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=persistency">the persistency
+ webpage in the grml wiki</a> for further details.
+
+ <li>bootoption <strong>findiso</strong>: dynamic version of bootoption
+ isofrom. findiso looks for the specified ISO file on all disks where
+ it usually looks for the .squashfs file (so you don't have to know the
+ device name compared to isofrom=...). Useful when booting from
+ harddisk. Usage example: 'grml findiso=/grml-medium_2009.05.iso'
+
+ <li>bootoption <strong>bsd</strong>: boot minimal <a
+ href="https://www.mirbsd.org/">MirOS BSD</a> operating system.
+
+ <li>bootoption <strong>hdt</strong>: minimalistic <a href="http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Hdt_(Hardware_Detection_Tool)">hardware detection tool</a>
+
+ <li>bootoption <strong>readonly</strong>: mark ALL /dev/[hs]*dX devices
+ as read-only, this is important for forensic investigations and is automatically
+ activated when booting via 'forensic'
+
+ <li><a href="/zsh/">Zsh</a> supports <a
+ href="http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/05/30/directory-specific-shell-configuration-with-zsh/">directory
+ specific shell configuration</a>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4>New grml-scripts:</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: wrapper around chroot with
+ proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling</li>
+
+ <li><strong>grml-exec-wrapper</strong>: simple but smart program
+ execution wrapper for executing commands which checks whether the
+ specified program is available at all</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (install grml ISO(s) on usb device for booting):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>fresh re-implementation from scratch
+
+ <li>featuring multi-ISO support
+
+ <li>providing support for additional bootoptions
+
+ <li>use of grub as default bootmanager (syslinux on request)
+
+ <li>automatic installation of a known-to-work MBR (master boot record)
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>Visit <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb">the usb webpage
+ in the grml wiki</a> and <a href="/grml2usb/">grml.org/grml2usb</a> for
+ more details regarding grml2usb.</p>
+
+ <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):</h4>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>support setting Debian suite components (like main, contrib,...)
+ through $COMPONENTS
+
+ <li>support setting aptitude/apt-get options through $DPKG_OPTIONS.
+
+ <li>support selection of netinstall vs. local mirror in interactive
+ menu
+
+ <li>drop $CHROOTMIRROR variable, instead use $MIRROR for debootstrap as well as inside the chroot
+
+ <li>provide $MNTPOINT as environment variable for usage inside /etc/debootstrap/scripts/.
+
+ <li>bugfixes for software RAID handling
+
+ <li>and 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>Visit <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
+ details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
+
+ <h3>Kernel</h3>
+
+ <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.28.10 including <a
+ href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ aufs lzma rt2400 rt73 squashfs virtualbox-ose-guest
+</pre>
+
+ <p>Visit <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
+ regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
+
+ <h3>Important Changes</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li><strong>zshrc</strong>: setup merge of /etc/zsh/zshrc and
+ /etc/skel/.zshrc into one single file, check out <a
+ href="/zsh/#grmlzshrefcard">grml-zsh-refcard</a> for details.</li>
+
+ <li><strong>vimrc</strong>: disable digraph by default (it's
+ especially annoying for users not being aware of it)</li>
+
+ <li><strong>dillo</strong> was replaced with <strong>xlinks2</strong>
+ as dillo's dependency libgtk1.2 was removed from Debian/unstable</li>
+
+ <li><strong>madwifi drivers</strong>: the madwifi drivers have been
+ replaced by the ath5k and ath9k kernel drivers of kernel 2.6.28.</li>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <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>. Visit <a
+ href="/files/release-2009.05-medium/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
+ for a main package listing and <a
+ href="/files/release-2009.05-medium/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
+ more detailed list of packages shipped with grml-medium 2009.05.</p>
+
+ <h3>Updates</h3>
+
+ <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 19th of may
+ 2009 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
+
+ <p>Removed 13 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.26-grml*) - please
+ notice that some of them are available under
+ different names/in different packages:</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ *2.6.26-grml* lib*
+
+ dillo links linux-libc-dev madwifi-tools x11-utils xserver-xorg-input-elo2300
+ xserver-xorg-input-evtouch xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-i810
+ xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-ivtv xserver-xorg-video-nsc
+ xserver-xorg-video-vga
+</pre>
+
+ <p>Added 22 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.28-grml*):</p>
+
+<pre class="rahmen">
+ acl aufs-tools beep console-setup consolekit dbus dstat gcc-4.4-base hal
+ hal-info links2 linux-kernel-headers-grml lzop mc moreutils oss-compat
+ pm-utils policykit sensible-utils tsconf virtualbox-ose-guest-x11
+ xserver-common
+</pre>
+
+ <h3>Major changes since release 2008.11 (20081201)</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>Moritz Augsburger joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>
+
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Known issues</h3>
+
+ <!--
+ <p>Take a look at <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate">the release
+ candidate webpage in the grml-wiki</a>. Please report problems using
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+ -->
+
+ <p>Take a look at <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_2009.05">grml-medium_2009.05 @ grml-wiki</a>.
+ Please report problems using information on <a
+ href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3>Download grml-medium 2009.05</h3>
+
+ <p>grml-medium 2009.05 can be downloaded from the mirrors listed on <a
+ href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3>Feedback</h3>
+
+ <p>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 <a
+ href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-medium_2009.05">grml-medium_2009.05 @
+ grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
+ 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>
+
+ <h3>Thanks</h3>
+
+ <p>Many thanks in this release go to Thomas Lehmann, Wernfried Haas,
+ Jan-Hendrik Zab, Christian Hofstaedtler, Ralf Moll, Marc Haber,
+ Thorsten Glaser, Lothar Speil, Michael Whapples, Andreas Korsten,
+ Baptiste Daroussin, Ulrich Dangel and Moritz Augsburger
+ 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>.
+
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+
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+
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