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30 <h1>Release Notes for grml-small 2009.05 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Lackdose-Allergie</a></h1>
35 <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
36 software especially for system administrators and users of texttools.
37 grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example
38 as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
39 environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you
40 don't even need a harddisk to run it, unless you want to. Due to
41 on-the-fly decompression grml includes more than 2GB of software and
42 documentation on the CD.</p>
44 <h3>Main Bugfixes</h3>
48 <li>improved localtime / utc / gmt handling (thanks to Thomas Lehmann for his work)
50 <li>vimrc: enable features (like syntax highlighting) only if available
54 <p>Fixed several small bugs and issues reported on <a
55 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2008.11">grml-small_2008.11 @
56 grml-wiki</a> and in the <a href="http://bts.grml.org/grml/">bug
57 tracking system</a>.</p>
61 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
65 <li>bootoption <strong>persistent</a></strong>: use persistency
66 feature on grml, check out <a
67 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=persistency">the persistency
68 webpage in the grml wiki</a> for further details.
70 <li>bootoption <strong>findiso</strong>: dynamic version of bootoption
71 isofrom. findiso looks for the specified ISO file on all disks where
72 it usually looks for the .squashfs file (so you don't have to know the
73 device name compared to isofrom=...). Useful when booting from
74 harddisk. Usage example: 'grml findiso=/grml-small_2009.05.iso'
77 <li>bootoption <strong>bsd</strong>: boot minimal <a
78 href="https://www.mirbsd.org/">MirOS BSD</a> operating system.
80 <li>bootoption <strong>hdt</strong>: minimalistic <a href="http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Hdt_(Hardware_Detection_Tool)">hardware detection tool</a>
83 <li>bootoption <strong>readonly</strong>: mark ALL /dev/[hs]*dX devices
84 as read-only, this is important for forensic investigations and is automatically
85 activated when booting via 'forensic'
87 <li><a href="/zsh/">Zsh</a> supports <a
88 href="http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/05/30/directory-specific-shell-configuration-with-zsh/">directory
89 specific shell configuration</a>
93 <h4>New grml-scripts:</h4>
97 <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: wrapper around chroot with
98 proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling</li>
100 <li><strong>grml-exec-wrapper</strong>: simple but smart program
101 execution wrapper for executing commands which checks whether the
102 specified program is available at all</li>
106 <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (install grml ISO(s) on usb device for booting):</h4>
110 <li>fresh re-implementation from scratch
112 <li>featuring multi-ISO support
114 <li>providing support for additional bootoptions
116 <li>use of grub as default bootmanager (syslinux on request)
118 <li>automatic installation of a known-to-work MBR (master boot record)
122 <p>Visit <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb">the usb webpage
123 in the grml wiki</a> and <a href="/grml2usb/">grml.org/grml2usb</a> for
124 more details regarding grml2usb.</p>
126 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):</h4>
130 <li>support setting Debian suite components (like main, contrib,...)
133 <li>support setting aptitude/apt-get options through $DPKG_OPTIONS.
135 <li>support selection of netinstall vs. local mirror in interactive
138 <li>drop $CHROOTMIRROR variable, instead use $MIRROR for debootstrap as well as inside the chroot
140 <li>provide $MNTPOINT as environment variable for usage inside /etc/debootstrap/scripts/.
142 <li>bugfixes for software RAID handling
144 <li>and more updates... check out the <a
145 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
149 <p>Visit <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
150 details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
154 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.28.10 including <a
155 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
161 <p>Visit <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
162 regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
164 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
168 <li><strong>zshrc</strong>: setup merge of /etc/zsh/zshrc and
169 /etc/skel/.zshrc into one single file, check out <a
170 href="/zsh/#grmlzshrefcard">grml-zsh-refcard</a> for details.</li>
172 <li><strong>vimrc</strong>: disable digraph by default (it's
173 especially annoying for users not being aware of it)</li>
177 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
179 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
180 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit <a
181 href="/files/release-2009.05-small/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
182 for a main package listing and <a
183 href="/files/release-2009.05-small/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
184 more detailed list of packages shipped with grml-small 2009.05.</p>
188 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 19th of may
189 2009 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
191 <p>No packages have been removed (excluding lib* and
194 <p>Added 8 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.28-grml*):</p>
197 gcc-4.4-base lzop mime-support python python-minimal python2.5
198 python2.5-minimal sensible-utils
201 <h3>Major changes since release 2008.11 (20081201)</h3>
205 <li>Moritz Augsburger joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>
209 <h3>Known issues</h3>
213 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate">the release
214 candidate webpage in the grml-wiki</a>. Please report problems using
215 information on <a href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
219 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2009.05">grml-small_2009.05 @ grml-wiki</a>.
220 Please report problems using information on <a
221 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
223 <h3>Download grml-small 2009.05</h3>
225 <p>grml-small 2009.05 can be downloaded from the mirrors listed on <a
226 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
230 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
231 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
232 the release please check <a
233 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_2009.05">grml-small_2009.05 @
234 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
235 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
236 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the grml-team</a>!</p>
239 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
240 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
245 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Thomas Lehmann, Wernfried Haas,
246 Jan-Hendrik Zab, Christian Hofstaedtler, Ralf Moll, Marc Haber,
247 Thorsten Glaser, Lothar Speil, Michael Whapples, Andreas Korsten,
248 Baptiste Daroussin, Ulrich Dangel and Moritz Augsburger
249 for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of you who
250 <a href="/donations/">donated something to the grml-team</a> and
251 of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
254 <h3>More Information</h3>
256 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
257 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a
258 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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