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32 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2010.12-rc0 - codename <a
33 href="/faq/#releasename">Gebrüder Grml</a></h1>
36 <p><strong>Notice: Grml 2010.12-rc0-rc1 is a RELEASE CANDIDATE and not
37 yet the stable release!</strong></p>
42 <p>Grml is a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian. It
43 includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system
44 administrators and users of texttools. Grml provides automatic hardware
45 detection. Grml is the perfect rescue system, but you can also use it for
46 analyzing systems/networks or as a working environment. It is not
47 necessary to install anything to a harddisk; you don't even need a
48 harddisk to run it. Due to on-the-fly decompression Grml includes about
49 2 GB of software and documentation on the live system.</p>
55 <li><strong>New Linux kernel version</strong> based on 2.6.36.2</li>
57 <li><strong>Config-less X</strong> to take advantage of X.org's automatic configuration</li>
59 <li>Support for Kernel Mode Setting (KMS)</li>
61 <li><strong>grml-rescueboot / loopback.cfg feature</strong> (note: more details will follow - TODO)</li>
63 <li>Initial release of <a href="http://grml.org/kantan/">Kantan</a>, an <strong>automated testing suite</strong> for continuous integration and a test environment; see <a href="http://grml.org/kantan/">grml.org/kantan/</a> for details (not shipped in Grml by default though)
65 <li><strong>Incremental grml-rebuildfstab</strong> triggered by udev events for faster execution time</li>
69 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
74 <li><strong>vim: persistant undo</strong> via ~/.vim/undo to undo changes even after you have saved and reloaded a file (disable the feature via: '<em>TODO</em>')</li>
77 <li><strong>Improved serial console on multiple devices</strong> (thanks to Marc Haber)</li>
79 <li><strong>vnc_connect bootoption</strong> allowing to connect to an existing listening vnc client for NAT traversal. Can be used to connect easily from devices behind firewalls as connection is initiated from the vnc server instead of the vnc client.</li>
81 <li><strong>grml-terminalserver no longer needs to rebuild the initrd</strong>, default initrd/initramfs shipped on ISO is fully-featured for PXE boot.</li>
83 <li>The <strong>netscript bootoption</strong> provides the new environment variable named NETSCRIPT to provide an option to ensure that the script is executed under the according environment.</li>
85 <li><strong>Updated manifold boot features</strong> (thanks to Thorsten Glaser): dd-ed ISOs (for booting via USB) now use isolinux as bootloader as well, so you get the same boot menu in normal CD boot as well as in USB boot.</li>
89 <h4>New features in <a href="/zsh/#grmlzshrc">Grml's Zsh</a></h4>
92 <li>Fully documented, see <a href="http://grml.org/zsh/">grml.org/zsh</a> (thanks to Joerg Woelke) - <a href="http://grml.org/zsh/grmlzshrc.html">available online</a> as well as offline ('man 5 grmlzshrc')
93 <li>Uses zsh's built-in vcs_info and falls back to a grml-packaged version if the current version of zsh does not come with its own implementation
96 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
100 <li><strong>Removed many window managers</strong> (fvwm/fvwm-crystal, ratpoison, dwm, twm, w9wm, evilwm, jwm, pekwm) due to size and out-of-the-box configuration issues. See <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue897">issue897</a> for the discussion.</li>
102 <li>grml2hd is no longer available from <strong>grml-quickconfig</strong>, the selection dialog displayed after grml-full or grml-medium are done booting.</li>
104 <li>Reworked <strong>/etc/runlevel.conf</strong> deployment. Instead of providing runlevel.conf through grml-etc it's being deployed through grml-live to improve customization capabilities.</li>
106 <li><strong>Rewrite of grml-x</strong> due to new xorg.conf handling, please note that some options that are now unnecessary have been removed and that all single-dash options (-force, -nostart,...) became common long options (--force, --nostart,...).</li>
108 <li>Switched from live-initramfs to <strong>live-boot</strong> based on version 2.0.12.</li>
110 <li>Switched from pump to <strong>ISC dhclient</strong>, triggered by udev events during boot (use nodhcp to turn this off).</li>
112 <li>Network configuration via <strong>/etc/network/interfaces</strong> supported during boot-up (static IP address assignment - e.g. via ip=... booption - and dhcp are both configured via /etc/network/interfaces).</li>
114 <li>Reworked <strong>sound mixer handling</strong> to improve handling of IBM hardware and multiple soundcards.</li>
120 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.36.2 including <a
121 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
124 aufs iscsitarget loop-aes lzma ndiswrapper openafs
125 speakup squashfs sysprof tp-smapi virtualbox-ose-guest
129 <p>Visit <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
130 regarding Grml's kernel.</p>
134 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
135 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.04">grml_2010.04 @
136 grml-wiki</a> and in the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug
137 tracking system</a>.</p>
139 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
141 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
142 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
144 <a href="/files/release-2010.12-rc0/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
145 for a main package listing and
147 <a href="/files/release-2010.12-rc0/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
148 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2010.12-rc0.</p>
152 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 15th of december
153 2010 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
155 <p>Removed 174 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.33-grml*) - please
156 notice that some of them are available under
157 different names/in different packages:</p>
162 2vcard abs-guide ace-of-penguins apt-xapian-index
163 archivemail asr-manpages astyle aterm aub auto-apt axp
164 bibcursed bluez-alsa cabber calcurse calife camserv
165 cbrowser cddb cdecl cdrbq cdrecord cdtool check clive
166 cmatrix conky console-common console-tools
167 cpuburn-in-binary cvs-buildpackage cw cwcp ddccontrol
168 ddccontrol-db dvdrtools dwm dwm-tools emcast evilwm faad
169 fdflush fdutils fgetty figlet filepp filetraq fluxconf
170 fnord fusesmb fvwm fvwm-crystal-minimal geresh gif2png
171 giftcurs gnupg-curl gnupg-pkcs11-scd gocr gq gs-common
172 habak hasciicam hnb hotkeys i8kutils ibritish icecast2
173 ifplugd ike-scan ingerman ipx irb irb1.8 irpas isakmpd
174 isdnactivecards jailtool jwm kbd-compat kqemu-common
175 live-initramfs loco lslk mgetty mgp moosic mp3blaster
176 mp3wrap mpage mplayer-skin-blue mrxvt mrxvt-common
177 mtd-tools multi-aterm ncpfs nedit netstat-nat
178 nictools-nopci nstx odbcinst1debian1 offlineimap
179 openafs-client opencryptoki pamusb-tools pcopy
180 pdns-backend-ldap pdns-backend-pgsql pdns-backend-pipe
181 pdns-backend-sqlite pdns-server pdumpfs pekwm perf
182 playmp3list pmidi postgresql-client-8.4 ppmd psfontmgr psh
183 python-xapian ratmenu ratpoison rdiff rdiff-backup rdoc
184 rdoc1.8 rman router-audit-tool scsiadd smake snmp snowdrop
185 speechd-up splitvt starttls swapd tcl8.3 thttpd tla
186 toshset toshutils tpm-tools trousers ttmkfdir twm unixcw
187 uswsusp w9wm wmmisc wprint wyrd x2x xfonts-intl-european
188 xfs xpdf-common xserver-xorg-input-aiptek
189 xserver-xorg-input-elographics xserver-xorg-input-evtouch
190 xserver-xorg-input-joystick xserver-xorg-input-kbd
191 xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-penmount
192 xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-void
193 xserver-xorg-video-amd xserver-xorg-video-dummy
194 xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-ivtv
195 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-tga
196 xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-via yaird ysm
199 <p>Added 46 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.36-grml*):</p>
203 3270-common acpi-fakekey anthy-common aufs-tools
204 bitlbee-common c3270 console-setup cups-ppdc diff ekeyd
205 fbcat gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.3-base gconf2-common git
206 grml-rescueboot growisofs hunspell hunspell-de-de
207 hunspell-en-us i3-wm iamerican isc-dhcp-client
208 isc-dhcp-common isc-dhcp-server jackd2 kbd keynav
209 live-boot live-boot-initramfs-tools lua5.1 m17n-contrib
210 mktemp nsd3 odbcinst1debian2 postgresql-client-9.0
211 python-apt-common python-chardet python-mutagen
212 python-openssl python-pycurl squashfs-tools suckless-tools
213 x11vnc-data xserver-xorg-video-nouveau zenity
216 <h3>Major changes since release 2010.04 (20100429)</h3>
220 <li><a href="http://grml.org/reports/devmeeting_2010/">Grml developer meeting</a> in Vienna.</li>
222 <li>Christian Hofstaedter joined the <a href="http://grml.org/team/">Grml team</a>.</li>
224 <li><a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/347-Event-Grml-at-FrOSCon-2010.html">Grml at FrOSCon 2010</a>.</li>
226 <li>German magazine <a href="http://www.freiesmagazin.de/">freiesMagazin</a> provides an article about Grml in edition 06/2010.</li>
228 <li><a href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/343-Event-Grml-Talk-in-DornbirnAustria.html">Grml talk at Net Culture Lab</a> in Dornbirn.</li>
232 <h3>Known issues</h3>
235 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate">the release
236 candidate webpage in the grml-wiki</a>. Please report problems using
237 information on <a href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
241 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.12">grml_2010.12 @ grml-wiki</a>.
242 Please report problems using information on <a
243 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
246 <h3>Download Grml 2010.12-rc0</h3>
248 <p>Grml 2010.12-rc0-rc1 can be downloaded from
249 <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
252 <h3>Download Grml 2010.12-rc0</h3>
254 <p>grml 2010.12-rc0 can be downloaded from <a href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
259 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
260 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
261 the release please check <a
262 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_2010.12">grml_2010.12 @
263 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
264 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
265 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
268 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
269 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
272 <a name="thanks"></a>
275 <p>Many thanks (alphabetically) in this release go to
277 Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth,
304 for their contributions.</p>
306 <p>We also would like to thank everyone who made <a href="/reports/devmeeting_2010/">the Grml-developer
307 meeting</a> possible. This includes <a href="http://metalab.at/">Metalab</a>,
308 <a href="http://www.tarent.de/">Tarent</a> and many unnamed generous private sponsors.</p>
310 <h3>Release of the stable version</h3>
312 <p>The stable release of Grml 2010.12 is scheduled for end of december
315 <h3>More Information</h3>
317 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
318 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a
319 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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322 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce">Grml's
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325 <p>If you are interested in development releases grab the daily ISOs
326 from <a href="http://daily.grml.org/">daily.grml.org</a>.</p>
328 <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
330 <p>Please feel free to <a href="http://grml.org/contact/">contact us.</a></p>
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