Release Notes for grml-medium 2009.05 - codename Lackdose-Allergie
+ +About
+ +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.
+ +Main Bugfixes
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- improved localtime / utc / gmt handling (thanks to Thomas Lehmann for his work) + +
- vimrc: enable features (like syntax highlighting) only if available + +
Fixed several small bugs and issues reported on grml-medium_2008.11 @ + grml-wiki and in the bug + tracking system.
+ +New features
+ +Special new features:
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- bootoption persistent: use persistency + feature on grml, check out the persistency + webpage in the grml wiki for further details. + +
- bootoption findiso: 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' + +
- bootoption bsd: boot minimal MirOS BSD operating system. + +
- bootoption hdt: minimalistic hardware detection tool + +
- bootoption readonly: mark ALL /dev/[hs]*dX devices + as read-only, this is important for forensic investigations and is automatically + activated when booting via 'forensic' + +
- Zsh supports directory + specific shell configuration + +
New grml-scripts:
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- grml-chroot: wrapper around chroot with + proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling + +
- grml-exec-wrapper: simple but smart program + execution wrapper for executing commands which checks whether the + specified program is available at all + +
grml2usb (install grml ISO(s) on usb device for booting):
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- fresh re-implementation from scratch + +
- featuring multi-ISO support + +
- providing support for additional bootoptions + +
- use of grub as default bootmanager (syslinux on request) + +
- automatic installation of a known-to-work MBR (master boot record) + +
Visit the usb webpage + in the grml wiki and grml.org/grml2usb for + more details regarding grml2usb.
+ +grml-debootstrap (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):
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- support setting Debian suite components (like main, contrib,...) + through $COMPONENTS + +
- support setting aptitude/apt-get options through $DPKG_OPTIONS. + +
- support selection of netinstall vs. local mirror in interactive + menu + +
- drop $CHROOTMIRROR variable, instead use $MIRROR for debootstrap as well as inside the chroot + +
- provide $MNTPOINT as environment variable for usage inside /etc/debootstrap/scripts/. + +
- bugfixes for software RAID handling + +
- and more updates... check out the Debian changelog for details + +
Visit grml.org/grml-debootstrap/ for more + details regarding grml-debootstrap.
+ +Kernel
+ +Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.28.10 including several patches and additional modules:
+ ++ aufs lzma rt2400 rt73 squashfs virtualbox-ose-guest ++ +
Visit grml.org/kernel/ for more details + regarding the grml-kernel.
+ +Important Changes
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- zshrc: setup merge of /etc/zsh/zshrc and + /etc/skel/.zshrc into one single file, check out grml-zsh-refcard for details. + +
- vimrc: disable digraph by default (it's + especially annoying for users not being aware of it) + +
- dillo was replaced with xlinks2 + as dillo's dependency libgtk1.2 was removed from Debian/unstable + +
- madwifi drivers: the madwifi drivers have been + replaced by the ath5k and ath9k kernel drivers of kernel 2.6.28. + +
Packages / Software
+ +Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are + available at the Debian section. Visit dpkg_get_selections + for a main package listing and dpkg_list for a + more detailed list of packages shipped with grml-medium 2009.05.
+ +Updates
+ +Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 19th of may + 2009 (plus some further selected updates).
+ +Removed 13 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.26-grml*) - please + notice that some of them are available under + different names/in different packages:
+ ++ *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 ++ +
Added 22 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.28-grml*):
+ ++ 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 ++ +
Major changes since release 2008.11 (20081201)
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- Moritz Augsburger joined the grml-team + +
Known issues
+ + + +Take a look at grml-medium_2009.05 @ grml-wiki. + Please report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/.
+ +Download grml-medium 2009.05
+ +grml-medium 2009.05 can be downloaded from the mirrors listed on grml.org/download/.
+ +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 grml-medium_2009.05 @ + grml-wiki 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 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 + donated something to the grml-team and + of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last + release!
+ +More Information
+ +You can find out more about grml on our website, IRC channel, and wiki. + +
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