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31 <h1>Release Notes:<br />grml64 0.2-rc1 - codename <a
32 href="/faq/#releasename">Schwammerlklauber</a> (20070518)</h1>
34 <p><strong>Notice: grml64 0.2-rc1 is a RELEASE CANDIDATE and not
35 yet the stable release!</strong></p>
39 <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
40 software especially for users of texttools and system administrators.
41 grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml for example
42 as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
43 environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk, you
44 don't even need a harddisk to run it, unless you want to (use grml2hd
45 for this). Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1GB
46 of software and documentation on the CD.</p>
48 <p>Whereas grml is meant for use on 32 bit systems, grml64
49 provides support for 64 bit platforms. It is based on the amd64
50 port of Debian. Take a look at the '<a
51 href="/files/#debian">Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are
52 searching for the package list.</p>
54 <p><strong><a href="/donations/">We do need your help!</a></strong></p>
58 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
59 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_0.1">grml64_0.1 @
65 <p>Several improved, updated and extended configuration files.</p>
67 <h4>New grml-scripts (some selected ones):</h4>
70 <li><strong>arename.pl</strong>: rename audio files by looking at a file's tagging
73 <li><a href="/grml-live/"><strong>grml-live</strong></a>: build
75 href="http://fai-project.org/">FAI</a> for generating
76 a grml and Debian based Linux Live system (CD/ISO)</li>
80 <h4>New bootparameters/cheatcodes:</h4>
84 <li><strong>micvol</strong>: configure mixer/ volume settings of
85 microphone channel; usage: micvol=$number
87 <li><strong>noconsolefont</strong>: skip setting console font via
90 <li><strong>nogrmlacpi</strong>: disable acpi stuff inside
91 grml-autoconfig without having to boot using noacpi (which triggers
94 <li><strong>lvm</strong>: activate present Logical Volumes (LVM)
96 <li><strong>nolvm</strong>: completely disable LVM code/checks; by
97 default (so without using a special bootoption) grml runs 'lvdisplay'
98 and if something can be found the user gets a hint to execute 'Start
103 <h4><a href="/grml2hd/">grml2hd</a> (install grml to harddisk):</h4>
107 <li>use --insecure for passwordbox so user gets feedback when typing
108 password (it's '***' of course and not plaintext).
110 <li>check for dmraid signatures
112 <li>support installation on LVM devices. Usage example:
113 'LVM=/dev/mapper/grml2hd-lvm grml2hd'</li>
117 <p>See <a href="/grml2hd/">grml.org/grml2hd/</a> for more
118 details regarding grml2hd.</p>
120 <h4><a href="/terminalserver/">grml-terminalserver</a> (boot
121 grml via network)</h4>
125 <li>updated initrd generation for use with live-initramfs, providing a
126 reworked initial bootprocess</li>
130 <p>See <a href="/terminalserver/">grml.org/terminalserver/</a>
131 for more details regarding grml-terminalserver.</p>
133 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
137 <li>all grml ISOs are automatically generated using the new <a
138 href="/grml-live/">grml-live framework</a></li>
140 <li>completely reworked initial bootprocess, based on live-initramfs
144 href="http://www.squashfs-lzma.org/">LZMA
147 <li>optimised the system to have as few wakeups as possibel (<25
148 wakeups/s in default startup)</li>
150 <li>updated to X.org 7.3</li>
152 <li>updated to libc6 2.7</li>
154 <li>the lang=-bootoption supports dvorak keyboard layouts (using
155 parameters dvorak, dvorak-iso or dvorak-utf8)</li>
158 <li>support for Virtualbox guest additions</li>
165 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.23.11 including <a
166 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
170 acx100 at76-usb atl2 aufs drbd8 exmap gspca ipw3945 ivtv
171 kqemu loop-aes lzma madwifi ndiswrapper nozomi openafs
172 qc-usb realtime-lsm rt2400 rt2500 squashfs sysprof
177 <p>Notice: some more modules
180 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=ati">fglrx</a> and <a
181 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=nvidia">nvidia</a>)
184 are not pre-installed but available through the <a
185 href="http://deb.grml.org/">grml-repository</a>.</p>
187 <p>See <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
188 regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
190 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
192 <p>The bootoption <strong>expert</strong> has been dropped. It is
193 deprecated nowadays. The bootoption <strong>splash</strong> has been
194 renamed into <em>textsplash</em> to avoid clashes with graphical
197 <p>Due to the new initial bootprocess (which is based on
198 live-initramfs) some <strong>bootoptions</strong> might not work as
199 expected or changed its behaviour. The grml team is working on merging
200 outstanding features. If you think you found a bootoption that does not
201 work as expected/documented please <a
202 href="http://grml.org/bugs/">report it</a>.</p>
204 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
206 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
207 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. See <a
208 href="/files/release-0.2-grml64/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
209 for a main package listing and <a
210 href="/files/release-0.2-grml64/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a more detailed
211 list of packages shipped with grml 1.1.</p>
215 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20071225.</p>
217 <p>Removed 91 packages [please notice that some of them are available under
218 different names/in different packages]:</p>
223 airsnort artwiz-cursor attacker autofs bandwidthd-pgsql
224 centericq centericq-common checkinstall clvm cogito
225 crywrap dbengine ddd debtags defrag discover discover-data
226 dnsdoctor dvgrab emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common
227 emelfm fbgetty findimagedupes flac123 fvwm-crystal gnuplot
228 gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11 gnus gnus-bonus-el grep-dctrl gs
229 gs-common gs-esp gs-gpl gscanbus ia32-libs idn
230 installation-report ion3 ion3-mod-xinerama ion3-scripts
231 irssi-text jail kiss lckdo linux-kernel-headers
232 linux-kernel-headers-grml linux32 lshw-common mobilemesh
233 modutils mozilla-firefox msort ncftp2 nessus netdude
234 netpipes nmapfe openbsd-inetd pdns python-mode
235 python-semanage rhapsody rt2400 rt2500 schedutils
236 sound-recorder sqlrelay sqlrelay-postgresql
237 sqlrelay-sqlite surfraw tdb-dev tinysnmp-tools twin
238 unison2.9.1 user-de uswsusp valgrind vde vifm vncommand
239 w3-el-e21 w3-url-e21 xdebconfigurator xfonts-artwiz
244 <p>Added 221 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.23-grml64*):</p>
248 2vcard 3ware-cli-binary aamath ack-grep acpi-support-base
249 acpitail afflib aggregate amap aosd-cat
250 apt-transport-https ascii asql awesome balance base64
251 bittwist bochsbios bsd-mailx catdvi centerim-common
252 centerim-utf8 cereal cpp-4.2 ctioga ctorrent dcfldd detox
253 dir2ogg dns2tcp dpkg-ruby duplicity dupmerge dvipng dzen2
254 edac-utils elfkickers emacs22 emacs22-bin-common
255 emacs22-common espeak espeak-data etckeeper exifprobe
256 exmap fai-client fai-doc fai-server fatsort
257 firmware-iwlwifi firmware-ralink flashrom fuseiso g++-4.2
258 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.2-multilib gcc-multilib gconf2
259 gconf2-common ghostscript ghostscript-x git-svn gitpkg
260 gksu gnome-keyring gnu-fdisk gnupg-pkcs11-scd gparted
261 grml-debian-keyring grml-live grml-paste gzrt haproxy
262 hdaps-utils hdapsd heirloom-sh hfsprogs hgsvn hplip
263 hplip-data iceweasel-webdeveloper ifupdown-extra
264 inoticoming iodine ipw-firmware irqbalance
265 irssi-plugin-xmpp iscsitarget itop jp2a kanif kpartx
266 latex-beamer latex-xcolor latexmk lcdtest ldnsutils
267 linux-libc-dev linux-wlan-ng live-initramfs logapp
268 loop-aes-testsuite lzma mailplate metastore minised
269 mkelfimage mlocate mr nat-traverse nessusclient netrw
270 netsurf nttcp nvclock obconf olsrd-plugins op open-iscsi
271 open-vm-tools openafs-client openafs-krb5 openbios-sparc
272 openbox openhackware packeth pamusb-tools paperkey
273 paris-traceroute pcaputils pdfjam pekwm pgf pip pm-utils
274 pmailq pngtools polipo poppler-utils preview-latex-style
275 prism54-firmware pristine-tar privbind proll pssh
276 python-dbus python-gnupginterface python-gobject
277 python-pycallgraph python-setuptools python-urlgrabber
278 qemu rainbowcrack rcov rinse rofs runit rutilt s3cmd
279 scamper scanmem shorewall-common shorewall-shell sitar sl
280 sm smap snort-common-libraries splint-data supercat
281 svgalibg1 sysutils taktuk tasksel tasksel-data tetex-base
282 tetex-bin tex-common texlive texlive-base texlive-base-bin
283 texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
284 texlive-lang-german texlive-latex-base
285 texlive-latex-recommended texpower tgt thinkfinger-tools
286 timelimit ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra uml-utilities
287 unhide uniutils vgabios vim-tiny wacom-tools wamerican
288 wapiti x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xfs-utils
289 x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xar xauth xbacklight
290 xdelta3 xdg-utils xinit xrestop
291 xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xsteg yatm yeahconsole
296 <h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
298 <p>As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
299 version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at <a
300 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading">the upgrading webpage in
301 the grml-wiki</a> as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
302 environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
303 subscribe to <a href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">the grml-user
306 <h3>Changes since release 1.0 (20070518)</h3>
310 <li>Alexander Steinboeck joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>.</li>
312 <li>Daily builds available: <a
313 href="http://grml.supersized.org/archives/269-Daily-grml-snapshots.html">automatically
314 generated ISOs of grml</a> (using <a href="/grml-live/">the
315 grml-live framework</a>) are available at <a
316 href="http://daily.grml.org/">daily.grml.org</a>.</li>
318 <li>Results of the <a
319 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=survey07">grml user survey
320 are available</a>.</li>
324 <h3>Known issues</h3>
327 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_0.2">grml64_0.2 @ grml-wiki</a>.
328 Please report problems using information on <a
329 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
331 <h3>Download grml64 0.2-rc1</h3>
333 <p>grml64 0.2-rc1 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on <a
334 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
338 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs
339 and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please
340 check <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64_0.2">grml64_0.2 @
341 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
342 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback, feature
343 requests and bug reports to the grml-team!</p>
346 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
347 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
352 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Henning
353 Sprang, Thomas Lange, Michael Schmitt, Daniel
354 Baumann, Karl Voit, Norbert Tretkowski, Jan-Pieter
355 Jacobs, Wolfgang Karall and Darshaka Pathirana for
356 their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones
357 of you who <a href="/donations/">donated something
358 to the grml-team</a> and of course to all those
359 who have sent feedback since the last release!</p>
361 <h3>More Information</h3>
363 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
364 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
366 <p>To sign up for future grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
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