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30 <h1>Release Notes for grml64-medium 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=grml64-medium_2008.11">grml64-medium_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=/grml64-medium_2009.05.iso'
76 <li>bootoption <strong>bsd</strong>: boot minimal <a
77 href="https://www.mirbsd.org/">MirOS BSD</a> operating system.
79 <li>bootoption <strong>hdt</strong>: minimalistic <a href="http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Hdt_(Hardware_Detection_Tool)">hardware detection tool</a>
81 <li>bootoption <strong>readonly</strong>: mark ALL /dev/[hs]*dX devices
82 as read-only, this is important for forensic investigations and is automatically
83 activated when booting via 'forensic'
85 <li><a href="/zsh/">Zsh</a> supports <a
86 href="http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/05/30/directory-specific-shell-configuration-with-zsh/">directory
87 specific shell configuration</a>
91 <h4>New grml-scripts:</h4>
95 <li><strong>grml-chroot</strong>: wrapper around chroot with
96 proc/sys/pts/dev filesystem handling</li>
98 <li><strong>grml-exec-wrapper</strong>: simple but smart program
99 execution wrapper for executing commands which checks whether the
100 specified program is available at all</li>
104 <h4><a href="/grml2usb/">grml2usb</a> (install grml ISO(s) on usb device for booting):</h4>
108 <li>fresh re-implementation from scratch
110 <li>featuring multi-ISO support
112 <li>providing support for additional bootoptions
114 <li>use of grub as default bootmanager (syslinux on request)
116 <li>automatic installation of a known-to-work MBR (master boot record)
120 <p>Visit <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb">the usb webpage
121 in the grml wiki</a> and <a href="/grml2usb/">grml.org/grml2usb</a> for
122 more details regarding grml2usb.</p>
124 <h4><a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml-debootstrap</a> (wrapper around debootstrap for installing plain Debian via grml):</h4>
128 <li>support setting Debian suite components (like main, contrib,...)
131 <li>support setting aptitude/apt-get options through $DPKG_OPTIONS.
133 <li>support selection of netinstall vs. local mirror in interactive
136 <li>drop $CHROOTMIRROR variable, instead use $MIRROR for debootstrap as well as inside the chroot
138 <li>provide $MNTPOINT as environment variable for usage inside /etc/debootstrap/scripts/.
140 <li>bugfixes for software RAID handling
142 <li>and more updates... check out the <a
143 href="http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-debootstrap.git;a=blob;f=debian/changelog;hb=HEAD">Debian changelog</a> for details
147 <p>Visit <a href="/grml-debootstrap/">grml.org/grml-debootstrap/</a> for more
148 details regarding grml-debootstrap.</p>
152 <p>Based on vanilla kernel 2.6.28.10 including <a
153 href="/kernel/">several patches</a> and additional modules:</p>
159 <p>Visit <a href="/kernel/">grml.org/kernel/</a> for more details
160 regarding the grml-kernel.</p>
162 <h3>Important Changes</h3>
166 <li><strong>zshrc</strong>: setup merge of /etc/zsh/zshrc and
167 /etc/skel/.zshrc into one single file, check out <a
168 href="/zsh/#grmlzshrefcard">grml-zsh-refcard</a> for details.</li>
170 <li><strong>vimrc</strong>: disable digraph by default (it's
171 especially annoying for users not being aware of it)</li>
173 <li><strong>dillo</strong> was replaced with <strong>xlinks2</strong>
174 as dillo's dependency libgtk1.2 was removed from Debian/unstable</li>
176 <li><strong>madwifi drivers</strong>: the madwifi drivers have been
177 replaced by the ath5k and ath9k kernel drivers of kernel 2.6.28.</li>
181 <h3>Packages / Software</h3>
183 <p>Details about shipped packages and their versions on grml are
184 available at the <a href="/files/#debian">Debian section</a>. Visit <a
185 href="/files/release-2009.05-grml64-medium/dpkg_get_selections">dpkg_get_selections</a>
186 for a main package listing and <a
187 href="/files/release-2009.05-grml64-medium/dpkg_list">dpkg_list</a> for a
188 more detailed list of packages shipped with grml64-medium 2009.05.</p>
192 <p>Updated all packages to Debian Unstable branch by 19th of may
193 2009 (plus some further selected updates).</p>
195 <p>Removed 13 packages (excluding lib* and *2.6.26-grml*) - please
196 notice that some of them are available under
197 different names/in different packages:</p>
202 dillo gcc-4.1-base links madwifi-tools x11-utils xserver-xorg-input-elo2300
203 xserver-xorg-input-evtouch xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-i810
204 xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-ivtv xserver-xorg-video-nsc
205 xserver-xorg-video-vga
208 <p>Added 20 new packages (exluding lib* and *2.6.28-grml*):</p>
211 acl aufs-tools beep console-setup consolekit dbus dstat gcc-4.4-base hal
212 hal-info links2 lzop mc moreutils oss-compat pm-utils policykit sensible-utils
213 tsconf xserver-common
216 <h3>Major changes since release 2008.11 (20081201)</h3>
220 <li>Moritz Augsburger joined <a href="/team/">the grml-team</a>
224 <h3>Known issues</h3>
228 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=release_candidate">the release
229 candidate webpage in the grml-wiki</a>. Please report problems using
230 information on <a href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
234 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-medium_2009.05">grml64-medium_2009.05 @ grml-wiki</a>.
235 Please report problems using information on <a
236 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>.</p>
238 <h3>Download grml64-medium 2009.05</h3>
240 <p>grml64-medium 2009.05 can be downloaded from the mirrors listed on <a
241 href="/download/">grml.org/download/</a>.</p>
245 <p>Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
246 fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
247 the release please check <a
248 href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml64-medium_2009.05">grml64-medium_2009.05 @
249 grml-wiki</a> and report problems using information on <a
250 href="/bugs/">grml.org/bugs/</a>. Please send your feedback and
251 feature requests <a href="/contact/">to the grml-team</a>!</p>
254 <li><a href="/contact/">grml.org/contact/</a>
255 <li><a href="/irc/">#grml on irc.freenode.org</a>
260 <p>Many thanks in this release go to Thomas Lehmann, Wernfried Haas,
261 Jan-Hendrik Zab, Christian Hofstaedtler, Ralf Moll, Marc Haber,
262 Thorsten Glaser, Lothar Speil, Michael Whapples, Andreas Korsten,
263 Baptiste Daroussin, Ulrich Dangel and Moritz Augsburger
264 for their contributions. Many thanks also to the ones of you who
265 <a href="/donations/">donated something to the grml-team</a> and
266 of course to all those who have sent feedback since the last
269 <h3>More Information</h3>
271 <p>You can find out more about grml on <a href="/">our website</a>, <a
272 href="/irc/">IRC channel</a>, and <a
273 href="http://wiki.grml.org/">wiki</a>.
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