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32 <h1>Release Notes for Grml 2012.05-rc1 - codename <a
33 href="/faq/#releasename">Ponyhof</a></h1>
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39 <p>After the downsizing and cleanup release 2011.12 this release brings
40 some additional tools and the grml-small flavour is back again.</p>
46 <li>grml-hwinfo: Support numactl to retrieve NUMA information
47 <li>Re-add simplifed support for brltty
48 <li>Support 9p-virtio filesystem for mounting the DCS-directory (Debs, Configuration and Scripts - see man grml-autoconfig)
52 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
55 <li>The ssh bootoption sets the specified/generated ssh passwort for user 'grml' <i>and</i> (new) for root
56 <li>Using /media as default mount target
57 <li>Dropped the grml-feedback tool
58 <li>Add a few kB of lines made of # charaters to the end of the main syslinux config file
61 <h3>Bits & bolts</h3>
64 <li>Linux kernel is based on <b>3.3.6</b>. No additional modules are shipped.</li>
65 <li>Fixed several bugs from the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug tracking system</a>.</li>
70 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are
71 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit
72 <a href="/files/release-2012.05-rc1/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
73 detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2012.05-rc1.</p>
77 <p>Packages are taken from Debian testing, 15th of May
78 2012. 7 packages have been removed, and these 52 new packages
79 have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
82 buffer cifs-utils comgt console-setup-linux consolekit
83 dctrl-tools disktype dos2unix ewf-tools exfat-fuse
84 exfat-utils firmware-myricom firmware-netxen
85 firmware-qlogic flashrom fsarchiver gcc-4.5-base
86 gcc-4.7-base genext2fs hexedit hostapd iftop info ipmitool
87 iptstate ipxe-qemu irssi kmod live-boot-grml-doc lrzsz
88 lzop mc-data memtester mosh numactl open-vm-tools
89 pppoeconf rfkill ser2net slurm smbfs tasksel tasksel-data
90 tcptraceroute usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data vlock
91 wireshark wvdial xmount xorriso xulrunner-10.0
94 <p>These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):</p>
97 console-terminus gcc-4.4-base genisoimage ipxe
98 python-central python-pexpect xulrunner-8.0
101 <h3>Known issues</h3>
103 <p>wallpaper: there's no wallpaper shipped with the ISO</p>
105 <p>grml-small: the lang bootoption sets the LC_* environment variable
106 to POSIX and therefore lacks support display of special characters like
109 <h3>Download Grml 2012.05-rc1</h3>
111 <p>Grml 2012.05-rc1 can be downloaded from
112 <a href="http://grml.org/download/prerelease/">grml.org/download/prerelease/</a>.</p>
116 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
117 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
118 the release please check <a
119 href="/bugs/known/">the known bugs list</a> and report problems using information on <a
120 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
121 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the Grml team</a>!</p>
123 <h3>More Information</h3>
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