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Release Notes for Grml 2013.02-rc1 - codename Grumpy Grinch

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About

This release brings the Grml tools towards the upcoming Debian stable release (AKA wheezy), provides up2date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

New features

Important Changes

Bits & bolts

Packages

Details about shipped packages and their versions on Grml are available at the Debian section. Visit dpkg_list for a detailed list of packages shipped with Grml 2013.02(-rc1).

Updates

Packages are taken from Debian testing, 11th of February 2013. 12 packages have been removed, and these 21 new packages have been added (plus dependencies, excluding lib* and kernel image):

  aptitude-common atmel-firmware bluez-firmware cpp-4.7 cryptsetup-bin epdfview
  firmware-atheros firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-intelwimax
  firmware-libertas firmware-linux ifenslave-2.6 insserv libertas-firmware
  netsniff-ng ruby1.9.1 ssmping uuid-runtime virt-what zd1211-firmware

These Grml packages have been removed/replaced (excluding lib* and kernel image):

  arrayprobe consolekit cpp-4.6 fuse-utils gcc-4.5-base gcc-4.6-base
  grub info linux-sound-base smbfs tasksel tasksel-data

Known issues

Download Grml 2013.02-rc1

Grml 2013.02-rc1 can be downloaded from grml.org/download/prerelease/.

Feedback

Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with the release please check the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and feature requests to the Grml team!

Thanks

Many thanks in this release go to (alphabetically) Andras Korn, Bernhard Tittelbach, Charles A. Hewson, Christian Hesse, Christian Hofstaedtler, Christoph Biedl, Csillag Tamas, Dominik Schips, Evan Pitstick, Florian Apolloner, Florian Klien, frenbu, Gregor Herrmann, Hendrik Jaeger, Lukas Anzinger, Pawel Sadkowski , Peter Palfrader, Pierre Schmitz, Raoul Raminder Andreas, Thorsten Glaser and Ulrich Dangel for their contributions.

More Information

You can find out more about Grml on our website, IRC channel, and wiki.

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Sponsors

Grml is sponsored by several companies. For more information about our sponsors check out the Sponsors webpage. Our main sponsors are:

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