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30 <h1>Release Notes for grml64-medium 2008.11 - codename <a
31 href="/faq/#releasename">Schluchtenscheisser</a></h1>
35 <p>grml is a Debian-based Live-CD. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux
36 software especially for users of texttools and system administrators.
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 (use grml2hd
41 for this). Due to on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1GB
42 of software and documentation on the CD.</p>
44 <p>Whereas grml provides about 2.1GB of software on a ~700MB ISO
45 and grml-small is a flavor with only ~75MB ISO-size, grml64-medium
46 tries to close the gap between those two flavours providing an ISO
47 with ~200MB. It does not provide all the software shipped with
48 normal/big/large grml but provides essential stuff, a full featured
49 kernel and the X.org server. You can use the Debian package
50 management system to install software on the fly (assuming you have
51 network access to a Debian mirror). Take a look at the <a
52 href="/files/">'Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are
53 searching for the package list.</p>
57 <p>Fixed several bugs and issues reported on <a
58 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-medium_0.1">grml64-medium_0.1 @
61 <h4>New grml-script:</h4>
65 <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: wrapper around chroot with
66 proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling</li>
70 <h4><a href="/grml-live/">grml-live</a> (build system for creating a grml (based) live-cd):</h4>
74 <li>several new packages in the different flavour classes
76 <li>improve error handling
78 <li>improve checks for -[no]lzma for different squashfs-tools
80 <li>output grml version in grml's live-initramfs script
82 <li>automatically activate grml-testing repository for devel releases and daily snapshots
84 <li>and several other updates... check out the <a
85 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
89 <p>See <a href="/grml-live/">grml.org/grml-live/</a> for more
90 details regarding grml-live.</p>
92 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):</h4>
96 <li>Provide interactive configuration dialog if the configuration
99 <li>Initial support for SW-RAID.
101 <li>Use root=UUID=... by default if possible to avoid possible
102 race conditions with libata vs. pata
104 <li>Use stages based on target information, this gives us the
105 possibility to run multiple instance of grml-debootstrap.
107 <li>Use policy-rc.d inside chroot to avoid startup of daemons.
109 <li>Remove stages after successful execution.
111 <li>Move stages to /var/cache/grml-debootstrap.
113 <li>Install devices using our own device tarball instead of
114 running MAKEDEV (which is just an ungly fork bomb).
116 <li>Run aptitude with --without-recommends option.
118 <li>Copy /etc/debootstrap/[s]bin as well to the chroot if they
121 <li>Allow symlinks when coping existing files to chroot
123 <li>Pre-seed packages using /etc/debootstrap/debconf-selections
125 <li>Support DEBOOTSTRAP_OPT for passing extra parameters to the
128 <li>Support KEEP_SRC_LIST to allow user to provide their own apt
129 sources.list from /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list
131 <li>and a lot more updates... check out the <a
132 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
136 <p>Special thanks to Tong Sun for his contributions and to <a
137 href="http://www.sipwise.com/">Sipwise GmbH</a> for sponsoring
138 development of grml-debootstrap.</p>
140 <p>See <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
141 details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
143 <h4>Special new features:</h4>
147 <li>integration of <a
148 href="http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html">vcs_info</a>
149 within Zsh prompt (<a
150 href="/screeni/gkrellShoot_08-11-03_235459.png">demo
153 <li>use random password if bootoption 'ssh' doesn't have an
154 option (thanks to Michael Holzt and Marc Haber)</li>
156 <li>(re-)implemented <a
157 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-live.git;a=blob_plain;f=templates/GRML/grml-cheatcodes.txt;hb=HEAD">the
158 isofrom and tohd bootoptions</a></li>
160 <li>moved from syslog-ng to rsyslog</li>
162 <li>added supported for swedish keyboard (thanks to Martin Karresand)</li>
168 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.26.8 including <a
169 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
172 atl2 aufs madwifi squashfs
175 <p>Notice: some more modules (like <a
176 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=ati">fglrx</a> and <a
177 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=nvidia">nvidia</a>) are not
178 pre-installed but available through the <a
179 href="http://deb.grml.org/">grml-repository</a>.</p>
181 <p>See <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
182 regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
184 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
186 <p>Using a new <strong>version schema</strong>: as we want to
187 improve tracking of all the different flavours and releases of
188 grml we decided to use "$flavour $YYYY.MM" for the stable
189 releases. No further confusing 'grml 1.1 vs. grml64 0.2'.</p>
191 <p>Switched from old IDE drivers to <strong>libata</strong>
192 drivers. What might have been known as /dev/hdX on your system
193 will become /dev/sdX nowadays.</p>
195 <p><strong>Truecrypt</strong> isn't shipped anymore Because
196 Truecrypt is licensed under a specific license named 'TrueCrypt
197 License 2.6' which doesn't permit us to distribute Truecrypt. See
198 <a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license">section VI/4 of
199 the license</a> for details.</p>
201 <p><strong>Locales</strong> provided via /usr/share/locale have
202 been removed due to space reasons, though /usr/share/i18n/locales
203 hasn't been modified as well as package specific files.</p>
205 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
207 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
208 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. See <a
209 href="/files/release-2008.11-grml64-medium/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
210 for a main package listing and <a
211 href="/files/release-2008.11-grml64-medium/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a more detailed
212 list of packages shipped with grml64-medium 2008.11.</p>
216 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 20th of
217 november 2008 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
219 <p>Removed 22 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.23-grml*) - please
220 notice that some of them are available under
221 different names/in different packages:</p>
226 cpp-4.2 firmware-ipw3945 gcc-4.2 gcc-4.2-base gcc-4.2-multilib
227 genisoimage grml-files64 grml64 ipw3945d nvclock python2.4
228 python2.4-minimal radeontool squashfs-tools syslog-ng sysutils unzoo
229 x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xbase-clients
230 xserver-xorg-video-newport
233 <p>Added 32 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.26-grml*):</p>
236 ca-certificates chntpw cpp-4.3 e3 gcc-4.1-base gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base
237 gcc-4.3-multilib genext2fs grml-files grml-small grub-common irqbalance
238 latencytop lzma make mercurial-common netcat-traditional
239 nfs-kernel-server openssh-blacklist openssl-blacklist powertop rsyslog
240 squashfs-lzma-tools syslinux-common xfsdump xserver-xorg-video-mach64
241 xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
242 xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd zoo
245 <h3>Upgrade notes</h3>
247 <p>As usual you can upgrade your grml harddisk system to the latest grml
248 version running 'apt-get update; apt-get install grml'. Take a look at <a
249 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=upgrading">the upgrading webpage in
250 the grml-wiki</a> as well. Notice: If you are using grml in a productive
251 environment and/or use a grml2hd installation we strongly recommend to
252 subscribe to <a href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">the grml-user
255 <h3>Major changes since release grml64-medium 0.1 (20080224)</h3>
259 <li><a href="/2008/10/01/">Migration from Mercurial to Git</a>.
261 <li>Developer related mailinglists moved from mlmmj to mailmain setup at
262 <a href="http://ml.grml.org/">ml.grml.org</a>.
266 <h3>Known issues</h3>
269 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-medium_2008.11">grml64-medium_2008.11 @ grml-wiki</a>.
270 Please report problems using information on <a
271 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
273 <h3>Download grml64-medium 2008.11</h3>
275 <p>grml64-medium 2008.11 can be downloaded from mirrors listed on <a
276 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
280 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fix bugs
281 and improve future releases. If you find a problem with the release please
282 check <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-medium_2008.11">grml64-medium_2008.11 @
283 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
284 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback, feature
285 requests and bug reports to the grml-team!</p>
288 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
289 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
294 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Tong Sun, Martin Karresand,
295 Ralf Schlatterbeck, Thomas Köhler, Peter Palfrader, Michael Holzt,
296 Florian Schuele, Marc Haber, Sipwise GmbH, Charles Hewson, Thomas
297 Lehmann, Christian Vogel, Andreas Roedl and Christian Hofstaedtler
298 for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of you who
299 <a href="/donations/">donated something to the grml-team</a> and
300 of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
303 <h3>More Information</h3>
305 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
306 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
308 <p>To sign up for future grml announcements, please subscribe to <a
309 href="http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml-announce"> grml's
310 announcement list</a>.</p>
312 <h3>Further Questions?</h3>
314 <p><a href="http://grml.org/contact/">Contact us.</a></p>
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